IwannaBeHappy

Alrighty ladies and Gents, Here's my problem. I have not gotten a fill in months because I was feeling realy sore in my chest. I was beginning to feel better and the doctor suggested I get a fill. I was on liquids for the first day and by the end of the second i was starving!!! I ate. I know I know I shouldn't have. But get this I was able too. I even had a bit of bread. Now I am upset at myself really for having no control!! But the soreness just came back!!! what is the reason not to eat after a fill? Did I cause damage for eating? I hope the soreness goes away... Oh I pray!!! Anybody else eat after a fill and feel a tad sore..? Please advise..

ahh the scariest words... slip. I believe it needs to be corrected via surgery. Once that happens you start a new and you use your band the same way..

Thannks guys. A few months ago I had a pb from a chip. From that point on I had chest pain and major irritation. I have gotten an endoscopy confirming I was heavily irritated, swollen a whole to do.. So I had to get on medicine and unfill a bit. For months I was dealing with this set back.. and pain. It was finally getting better so i decided to get a fill. I should have proceeded with more caution. But I ate. and I didn't get stuck or anything. But that pain came back and with a fury. I wanna cry myself to sleep. I wanted to do so well and it happened again. I wonder why if the food went down. I ate slow and cautiously. I know I was suppose to be on liquids but it was the night of my second day. I wish i knew what to do now? I'm afraid to keep this fill in now. Anybody experience anything like this?

same here. I also find that I hiccup after i eat to much or too fast. I think it has something to do with our diaphragm in the area.. I burp if I drink too fast. Or sometimes when I wake up. Ohhhh I'm embaressed. But what can you do..

I hope someone out there has an idea as to what im experiencing. i was banded 7 months ago. I was doing fantastic! i had a pb episode with a tortilla chip about 3 months ago. well Ive never been the same after that. Ive felt a soreness in my chest a tighting if you will. The doc said perhaps i irritated soemthign with the torilla chip, and urged me not to worry. However this feeling of soreness still exists. and so she gave me an unfill. She also gave me carafate some form of mylanta. ok i was feelign a little better the soreness comes and goes..random. and now i get my fill and 2nd day of fill i get this soreness when i tried to eat mushies.. and its been 5 days its realllly taking a toll on my life. esophogram came out normal. I dont know how to handle this.. doctor has no idea what this could be at this point. It gets even worse if i get nervous. But bottom line it is non stop chest pain.. Pleaaaassseeee help..

So i needed to get an unfill. I was having some chest pain and the doctor thinks i may have torn or irritated something when i had 1!!! minor PB gosh! anyhoot i wasnt tight at all. So she taes 1 cc out. and OMG! first i tested a bit. Hmm what can i eat. I promised id stay strong and eat healthy. Initialy it was hard very hard but then I just started to pig out. here I am thinkin well Illl get a fill abck and then its over... or well i couldnt eat brea for 6 months whats a little peanut butter and jelly sandwhich. Ive been on a 3 week party boat.. and i promise you as much fun as this sounds to each and everyone of you. I wont lie i thought it would be. But I learned that I am addicted. Now that I can eat.. Ill eat. Willpower is not being very helpful. It brought me back to why I got the surgry in the first place. For a moment there i started to fill my time and energy into productive things. And then food came to visit. Gd bless our bands.. yeh it get bad and ugly sometimes.. but sitting here..just arriving from yet another party.. Im lookign fwd untill i lay low and leave the "party " scene. its time to get motivated and get back on track! Good luck everyone.. and I hoooppppeeee I get a fill and this chest pain goes away..

you know ive heard many people refer to it as an addiction. Ive gone to aa myself. Truth sometimes I tell myself "its not that serious. I mean seriously its food just stop eating what is this shit addiction thing." Ohh but it is. I thought I was cured of compulsive eating when I had surgry. I was beginig to do things for myself. and then 2 months ago I found myself eating slider foods when I just felt like being compulsive and needed to eat and dont want to be so damn focsed! WhenI wanted to speed up my eating just a smidge. and we know we can do that with slider foods!! But now Im 1 cc less and i havnt stopped eating!! I looked at old pictures for motivation..Ive allowed myself some falling off the wagon room but not to this degree. I am not cured. and probably would never be. Your right ive made food apart of my life feelings, and activities for so long it wont just go away when i get a month to test it out. I think when my weight and control with the band catches up with my head i may just mak peace with it. For now i looked at it as if i escaped jail. and i didnt think of it as jail before the unfill. yes it was hard yes i was frustrated but as soon as i had gotten this freedom. I just went for it!! my questions are: how am i able to eat more then ever possible when I was at this level a few months ago I felt more restricted. for exaple I can eat bread now. and at this level the firts time no chance!! should i be concerned? if im at a level where i can eat, does this stretch my pouch or anything like that? im getting an esophogram in a week to make sure im alright regarding the chest pain so we can fill me again but still confused as to how i can eat more at this level when i couldnt before. Thanks in advance!!

words of wisdom! very true! I am gonna do my best! Thanks

So i needed to get an unfill. I was having some chest pain and the doctor thinks i may have torn or irritated something when i had 1!!! minor PB gosh! anyhoot i wasnt tight at all. So she takes 1 cc out,in hopes that will facilitae the healing? and OMG! first i tested what I can eat at this level.Hmm what can I eat?? I promised i'd stay strong and eat healthy. Initialy it was hard very hard but then I just started to pig out. Here I am thinking well Illl get a fill abck and then its over... or "I couldnt eat bread for 6 months whats a little peanut butter and jelly sandwhich". Ive been on a 3 week party boat.. and i promise you as much fun as this sounds to each and everyone of you. I wont lie i thought it would be. But I learned that I am addicted. Now that I can eat.. Ill eat. Willpower is not being very helpful. It brought me back to why I got the surgry in the first place. For a moment there i started to fill my time and energy into productive things. And then food came to visit. Gd bless our bands.. yeh it gets bad and ugly sometimes.. but sitting here..just arriving from yet another party.. Im lookign fwd untill i lay low and leave the "party " scene. its time to get motivated and get back on track! Good luck everyone.. and I hoooppppeeee I get a fill and this chest pain goes away..

think of ur new pouch as a sink or bathtub.. and when theres so much water and you let it go through it makes some sorta guurgling type sound :smile2: The doc said perhaps a big bite or eating to fast. I get it too.. Loud enough for people to hear and ask.. "wait where the hell did that just come from?" some people laugh that my stomach talks to them, they don't know about the surgery. I cant help but laugh!

ok so this happens to me a lot...Ill take a bite of anything usualy band friendly and ill feel so tight. then i sit and wonder hmm ok ill take an even smaller bite.. and still ill feel super tight and get very frustrated especially if im sitting with people. after about 15 or 20 min of "struggeling" i can eat no problem! i can pick on ppls leftovers because everyone is doen by the time i can actualy eat.. im not too tight because I can eat.. but only after i play this very difficult test of my patience game! whats this about? does anyone know why this happens? shouldn't i feel tight or "full" only after I eat? let me know if anyone can help.. ive had my band for just 3 months and im trying to learn. Thanks

wow for a newbie ur very ambitious which is fabulous!! my questions then were "how much will i lose? will i get to my target weight?" If i learned anything.. its to take this in baby steps. from seminar to doctors visits- to all the other apts they make you go to.. all of it.. it can get overwhelming. hopefuly it will all work out and when you get to goal you can ask that question again! i sure as hell hope ill be asking that question soon :w00t:

So I am totally paranoid about stretches that require big range of motion like yoga or pilates..for some reason I cant get it out of my head that i can move that dingy port or it will go somewhere dig in somewhere and get lost.. or I will break a stich! I cant shake this. I work out< I do the eliptical or bike but regarding stretching and sits ups etc.. argh I just cant do them! anyone have the band for years or have feelings about exercize and there friend the port?? Id love to hear your thoughts..

it was tonight!!?? oh boy i better write them down, i absolutely forgot... oh im so upset!!! i had an apt with Anne tom and they called me to change it with Dr ren on fri... Truth im dissapointed she just doesnt give me the time and i have tons of questions.. please remind me lol next support group im there.. I asked Dr. ren about the port and she simply said "its an irratoional fear anythign else" im like allright..

I had a few toritilla chips, which are normally not a problem.. I must have ate them a bit to quickly.. however here's the problem. This happend wed night, and i simply threw up one bite. Ok we know its not that simple, but honestly it was the simplest stuck episode ive had yet. I only had 3 in 5 months of having the band so not too bad... my upper chest is soo sore.. I can feel where its sore. I feel it when im just resting.. I went on liquids best i could, and if i cheated i ate pretty mushy stuff.. Im starting to get worried now. Its teh second day of feeling this really bad soreness and i assume my stomach is just really irritated? I have threw up before and i never felt this way afterwards im normaly relieved right after.. Im gonna stick to liquids and mushy thing again tommorrow.. I just hope this goes away.. I actualy have a fill apt next week and hope i dont need to get an unfill to relieve this.. whats this about??? anyone!!?? Thanks in advance :thumbup:

now thats interesting...hmmm dunno.. hope someone here can help.. id call your doctor see what he says.

u mean girgaling? like strange sounds that come from the stomach...its like upper pouch is a sink and as it goes through the band it girglles its way down the narrow sink. i get that all the time.. usualy its from drinking too fast.. if you slow it down see what happens.. nothign to worry about,

aww thank you.. but the thing is i can drink fine. and eat if i wanted too just be very uncomfortable. I dont think its stuck cuz i can drink and i did throw it up.. its just this soreness its so bad! i mean i hope i dont need an unfill but im glad u felt it too.. well not glad but that its normal..mmm do you think i need an unfill for it to feel better? or can this go away... i cant believe one lil bite is making me feel like this.. ouch

aah cool. I think im gonna go to the next support group. Perhaps ill see you there.. I know i should probaby ignore it.. I just feel random lil stings and stuff nothign too serious but i feel it on occasion so it reminds me its there.. do you like her btw? Im not a fan shes really dry and not very warm. I like gasper and anne.. they talk and hang out for a while.. she doesnt make me feel very comfortable.. Thanks everyone for your responses!

Thanks everyone for your reply's! i guess I have to try and relax with it a bit..This port will be with me for life.. It's just always in the back of my mind when i do a stretch and i think hhmm where is the tubing going right about now.. haha does anyone feel at random like a stinging or pinching feeling around the port? i had that this week but it comes and goes and no real reason for it. im going to the doctor in 2 weeks ill discuss it then. Thanks guys and good luck with everything!!!

i asked the very same question take a look at some of the replies in the thread.. i have trouble to with the first bite and the 2nd and i eat slowand band friendly things.. and im like hmm whats this about but as soon as u warm up ur esophgaus and it gets used to pumoing u can begin to eat..comfortably not rediculous amounts but more comfortably then truggling with the first few bites.. they call this first bite syndrome. read the thread perhaps it will be of use to you. good luck! and keep us posted.

oh man im with you! i told my mom and my dad no scratch that i made them both swear they wouldnt tell anyone.. my reason is because my whoel family allways harped on my weight." how much have you lost?" "are u watching?" " can you afford that" even now i got that can you afford that comment! from my grama and she doesnt even know.. so imagine that.. soem ppl dontknow and they still judge so i made it very clear.. unfortunatly week before my surgery iw as at a family function and my uncle who i rarely see goes.. so u excited to get on this diet? and i look at him like confused he musta noticed me not eating the deserts or something and then he reiterates in front of a whole bunch of ppl and i was just mortified! not because i mind that he knows but i wanna get through this on my own.. minus teh questions minus the judgments.. and to think i have to start playing detective..who told!? well my dad never seemed to have respected my privacy anyhow so i try not to get angry... i told 2 good friends and that was it! my personal choice is to keep this to myself.. im not ashamed. this is for me. and i wannt to come to terms with how I feel first!

hey there, so I have PCOS but who doesnt nowadays..i was put on metformin once but got off of it.. and was also given spirolnoldactone but again got off of it.. not a fan of pills really.. in any case my only form of treatment is birth control pills.. no change yet,,but isnt that the way this thing is.. pain pain in the ass!! :sad: but ive done plenty of research and it seems its a condition that just needs to be managed. weight management is #1 treatment.. so i hope when i get closer to goal.. i have 50 pounds to go.. perhaps then ill see a change.. personly not a fan of pills i hear metofrmin helps with sugarand lose weight.. but hey you got lapband so no need for extrra pills there,, I hope that helped. keep me posted..

well, many ppl im sure have lots to say.. id ask your doctor on what he thinks you should be taking. my doc said i should atleast be taking a multi and calcium. so i take flinstones and vitachew. i try and take a b12 cuz i hear ppl become deficient in it but its good for energy and such. I also try to take a biotin to keep my hair well there! lol im 25 so i dont need many vitamins.. but id def start with a multi for sure..

hehe wow thats exactly where i was just about 3 months ago.. msn i was so defensive i didnt tell anyone aside from 2 very supportive friends.. and my dad.. ooh that dad of mine just cant keep his mouth shit. I made him swear to keep this private untill im ready.. I go in and out of my pity parties till today.. but i promise you.. youll be having so many other parties the pity parties just have to come along to remind u of how great things will be... in the meantime,, hey i love a pity party.. i was just having one earlier.. sorry I didnt invite you! i usualy liek to have them by myself! stay strong! stay motivated! visualize ur goal.. u are on ur way to it as each day goes by!! enjoy..