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I will be banded August 7, 2006 Arlington TX Dr Richard Carter Not sure if I am excited. More scared than anything

Marc I too am terrified concerning the surgery. I will be calling my surgeon in the morning to schedulel my surgery date. But I can't stay away from this site. I hate my body. I don't want to be this way anymore. Therefore I must do this for my own sanity. I am single. I am feel alone also. I can't changed that but I can do something about my weight. I wish I could lose own my owna and keep it off but I can't so I doing the next best thing. I am getting a tool to help me lose the weight and keep it off. Keep your head up? You are making the right decision.

You are in my prayers.

I will be banded August 2, 2006 (unless i chicken out). I have been trying to eat like a bandster.... well sort of. I have been trying to chew my food for 20 times and eat small bites. I am trying to cut out my love of my life sodas and I am trying to drink 64 oz of Water. It has been hard But the other night I went to a 5 star resturant and had beef tenderloin with salad, desert and bread. I was wondering how am I going to do with this. That food was goooooood. My company does 5 star resturants at least once a month. I think next month I will be missing in action.

At the recent Nurse Practitioner's conference Nature Made gave me a sample of chewable Calium 600mg per table with 200 I U Vitamin D. They are a cherry, orange, mixed berry. They taste really good. I haven't looked for them at the drug store but look for them at a drug store. Nature Made Chewable Calcium 600mg with Vitamin D 200 IU

Make sure you continue the protein shakes. That will help with the hunger. Also don't let them do a fill without fluro next time. My potential surgeon says he only do fills under fluro and he go really slow with fills. He even showed me the fluro room.

Hey everyone. I went for my consultation today. I cancel my July 12, 2006 date because 1. I was scared and 2. My mom is scheduled to go out of town July 13, 2006 and I forgot that. I realized that I can't do this alone. I am single with a 4 y/o. I didn't reschedule the surgery but was really impressed with the surgeon and his staff. The surgeon did my Gallbladder surgery and did a great job. One of his staff member talked to me about the surgery. She is a lapband patient also. She let me feel her port site and told me some things about how she eats (a concern of mine). She said that I could call her with any problems that I may have. The doctor came in and explained everything with me ie complications slippage, erosion, GERD, N/V. He said that fills are done slowly to limit some of the problems. He hasn't had a slippage in a long time (not saying it won't happen). My mom accompanied me to the visit. She was suprised by the cost of the surgery. She said to do it if it will make me feel better, but that the cost would be a problem for her. I need to talk with my boyfriend again. He is out of town and won't be back until next Monday. So I will decide then. He called today to say since I mention I wanted to do this he has seen so many articles on WLS. I am leaning toward surgery for August 02, 2006. I will keep everyone posted on my decision. I am not as scared like I was before the consultation. But I do know one thing I hate my size and I hate that i continue to do this yo yo wight loss thing.

I just found this site yesterday. I scheduled my band for July 12, 2006. Now I am really scared after reading everything on the site. I have only had surgery twice in my life (dental and gallbladder). I am scared of what my happen ie complications. I am the main bread winner so too much time off work will hurt my finances. I struggle with should I really do this or should I try life style changes again. I lost 50lbs 2 years ago now I see it all returning again. I am keeping this a secret from my family so maybe I just need to talk this out and I will feel fine. Thinking about cancelling surgery

Good Luck. I will say a prayer for you and Tracey tonight. May God be with you and Tracey during this time of surgery and flying back home. I hope the last meal was wonderful and enjoyable

I scheduled my surgery date for July 12, 2006. I will be moving it back indef. I am so nervous / scared right now. I too feel like such a loser. I am sacred to share my feeling with anyone. Scared of what they would think. $15000.00 is a lot of money. I know everyone will think I am crazy. But I hate my size....... I diagnosed myself with depression last night so I think I will treat that first. Then I will decide on the surgery. I need more time. I lost weight numberous times but I always gain it back. For once I would like to lose weight and not regain it back.

Thanks so much for the support. I am still deciding. I feel like such a loser not being able to keep my weight down. And also for feeling like this is my only way out. Maybe others feel / felt the same way. I have some soul searching to do and fast

Thanks Carlene. I hope you are right. I meet with the surgeron on July 10 2006. I hope he has a hour to answer all my questions. The one good thing is that he is the same doctor who did my Gallbladder surgery and everything went really well.