savannahsmommie

I have had the stomach flu two days and can not keep anything down. I am starting to get alittle dehydrated and the Urgent Care doctor said to drink some seven up to settle my stomach and he knows I have the band. Anyone drink carbination with the band when they were sick? All I want right now is some 7up to settle my stomach. Gatorade, water, pedilite, and apple juice all keep coming back up. No food either.

I want to pick up some rollerblades to start rollerblading instead of walking. Will this be good enough exercise to start off, until I feel I am ready to start running? Anybody else rollerblade?

I am in the same situation! I hate this belly fat and it won't go anywhere! I have lost a good amount of weight and i am back down to a size 13 and still have most of my belly fat! My doctor says that it is typical and cardio will help.

The thing that stands out to me is the sugar! That's a lot. I was told by my surgeon at my last appt that if it has more than 5g sugar avoid it. I started doing that on Thursday and I am down 4 pounds already. Plus started munching on beef jerkey like he suggested between meals. I stay full longer and eat less now!

I would call your doctor and see what they have to say.

So I was banded six days ago and am doing really well. Went back to work 2 days post op and felt great. Well....I am a very sexual person and literally all I have been able to think about is taking advantage of my husband. :cry_smile: So last night I gave into the urge. I haven't had any pain in my port area or chest. Still able to hold down liquids. Think it will affect the healing process? :thumbup: How long did you all wait to have sex after getting banded?

I have 2 months post op and have not lost any more weight than I did on the post op liquid diet. I have had two fills and am up to 7ccs in my band. I do strength training x 5 days a week and I rollerblad x 3 days a week. I eat healthy. Usually egg beater omlet in the morning with tomatoes and cucumbers. Protein shake and plain tuna or chicken breast for lunch. Dinner is usually a small protein shake and chicken breast or beef. I've been doing this for a month and a half with no results! I am getting very discouraged. I acutally gained a pound at my last Doc visit. Any suggestions?

Doc said he wasn't worried about the one pound, he keeps telling me to stay on the track I am on. Well, this track has had no proven success for me....and it is taking away priceless hours with my children....

Congrats to you all. How exciting! I have two little ones and am going to try and wait until my one year mark to complete our family with the third. I wish you all the best with your preggers journey!

My insurance paid for it. Thank goodness. I know that some insurances do not. Tricare has been pretty darn great thus far.

Hey. Not stupid at all. I started off just walking with my dogs and that really got the ball rolling. I now rollerblade, while pushing my two toddlers in the stroller. It is a blast. When it's too hot outside I will turn on the radio full blast and dance around with my kids and they love it. An hour into it my face is beet red, I'm out of breath and I'm sweating like a pig. But my kids love it. I do exercise videos in the morning, Slim in 6 is the best I have found so far. It really does a full body workout and it's low impact, but you feel it the next day. I am looking into getting a exercise bike or treadmill, as well. Good luck!

My port is sutured to my abdomen. I had a port revision a week and a half ago because my original surgeon did not "install it properly." I guess they are suppose to put a little mesh behind it and a slid it againist the ab walls or suture it to the muscles and my original surgeon did neither. I went to get my first fill and it had turned upside down. Now all is good. I didn't have any trouble breathing though. Most of that is probably from gas. Get the Gas X. I didn't use it, but I heard it works great.

I agree with asking your surgeon. Only they will truly know the answer. You have trusted them thus far, trust the answer they give you. Good luck and if you ever want to borrow a couple of kids you can take mine! lol jk

Weight gain can be a side effect, but that goes along with any birth control. Most of the weight gain is water weight, because you have a higher rate of retaining it. I don't reccomend the depo shot, and mainly because the doctor I work for tells all our patients that Depo has been known to cause "depression and anxiety." Good luck!

I would think that you would be able to tell a difference. That is just my opinion. I have lost twenty pounds and can def tell a difference and so can everyone around me. I would just be nice and tell her that it's great she's so excited about losing and keep encouraging her.

I went in for surgery this morning because my port had turned upside down. I switched to a new surgeon, because my previous (original) surgeon was not very good. The new surgeon said that it looked as if the 1st doc has attempted sewing the port to my ab muscles but only one 1 side. So he reattached it to the ab muscle and then sewed my back up. To my surprise he also did my first fill. He gave me 6ccs. He said he always starts off at six when the band holds 14ccs. He also said he did not understand why I was given a 14cc band because the Standard AP Band that holds 10cc would have been perfect for me. Oh well, can't change that now. The surgery went great, only I am more in more pain that I was when I got the original lap band done a month a half ago. My incision is a bit bigger. but he did it over the previous incision. I hope this 6ccs gets me over my platue and back to losing weight. Anyone else have this happen?

I was able to eat popcorn before I had my fill. I have not tried since I got my first fill last week. My doc doesn't advise it because the kernals could get stuck he said. I will listen to him. I already had to do a port revision, and I do not want another surgery.

Congrats on the fill. I get port revision tomorrow and am very nervous!

I am six weeks post op and went in for my first fill yesterday. My port has turned upside down and I have to go in for a port revision on Tuesday. I had no pain, no tenderness, and no swelling. I am so frustrated.

When is your revision? Mine is scheduled for this coming Tuesday. Thankfully he said after I come out of the anesthesia he will do a fill. He's not the surgeon that put the band in, because they were complete idiots. And my new doctor is amazing. He was actually going to take me into surgery yesterday when he couldn't get it, just because he has never missed a port before. Thank god for good surgeons.

So I went in for my first fill and low and behold. Murphy's Law, what can go wrong will go wrong. F-ing A. My port is upside down and I have to go in for another surgery to turn it the right way and suture it to my ab muscles. Yay for me! Anyone else have this happen?

So I had this weird hiccup and then chest pain in the center of my chest that has turned into a dull ache. I hadn't eaten in hours, so it wasn't food. Now, I keep getting nauseous for like 3-4 minutes then it goes away for 3-4 minutes and comes back, Over and over. I haven't vomited, but I feel like I have to. I called my surgeons office and they don't answer and don't return the phone call cause there unorganized. I am in the process of getting in to see a new WLS for follow up and when I called that office they said they can't direct me over the phone what to do because I haven't been seen by them yet. Has anyone had this? Any suggestions?

I am 5'11, 230 lbs and I wear a size thirteen comfortably. Everyone's body is different. I know when I weighed 175 I was in a size eight.