Yvette1026

EXACTLY - even though it's the same basic process all of our journey's are different. I had someone tell me my dr's an idiot.. umm k, I think I'll trust his degrees and thousands of surgeries and patients to your pixels on a screen.. LOL Have a great day!

Is he a private WLS surgeon or is he part of a company like true results or something like that. I would contact the surgeon directly. If you were supposed to have surgery on Friday there's no reason for you not to of had it. My surgeon did surgeries in two locations on Friday, 3 at the out patient place where I was and then after me straight over to the hospital for those who's insurances require hospital stays. Chances are the surgeon isn't aware of what's going on, and there's a difference between the staff and the surgery scheduler, she works directly with the surgeon and may not be aware of the situation or that you were already scheduled.. call and speak with her directly or your surgeon.

Honestly I've just kept active and I didn't lay around. Even if I was "relaxing" or sleeping, I was in a recliner in a mostly upright position so the gas couldn't really deposit anywhere. Get up and walk every hour, even if it's just a few steps, get up and move. Last night (night of day 4) was my first night in my bed, I was so comfortable, I overslept but evidently my body needed it. Short of my arm and shoulder hurting from sleeping in the same position all night (had to be careful of the incisions) my gas is pretty much gone and I feel 98%, then again I've only been up for about 30 mins lol.. I have some very light gas pain in my other shoulder but it's not really noticeable. Also I only used the gas-x the first day and half, after that I stopped using it. Your body is a miraculous machine capable of healing itself, if you just do what it's telling you. Hope that helps.

I just asked this about a week ago, and now that I've gone through the surgery let me just tell you, you don't want it without the general. It's always been an issue for me to go under general because my sperm donor, I mean dad died on the table for 6 minutes and they had to bring him back. The doctors have always advised me against it. I went into this thinking twilight was the way, Sooooooooooooooooo glad I didn't. You're only out for about 45 mins total, if that.. the best part was the twlight cocktail they gave me before the GA, I don't even remember going under GA. Happy Surgery!

Today is day 4, I did entirely too much. My port incision feels tight and pulled like I may have done something to myself. Could have been when the cart rolled into me, could have been the pants, either way.. I will rest up for the rest of the day. Today I woke up and had yogurt for breakfast, that kept me full, but I decided I needed a protein shake to go all day. When I got home from my moms, I did some work, and got dressed. I put on the loosest but still cute and professional outfit I could find, luckily for me I work from home for the most part but I did have appointments out today. I made my shake to go and went off to my first appointment. Everything was fine until I had to follow him, he walked what seemed to me as "REALLY FAST" normally I keep up with him no problem. But I could feel my stomach tightening, gas? pain? pulling? dunno.. just make a joke so he'll slow down.. joke joke, ok I got nothing.. Sorry if I can't keep up with you today, just had surgery. "Oh ok" he says as if I had just said there was paper in the fax machine.. like umm ok.. awkward but whatever... Finish with him and on to the next, I walk into the building and the smelll makes me nauseated.. umm ok gotta go... back to my car, driving driving driving.. trusty shake by my side.. wait sitting sitting sitting, but these are my big pants, why are they digging into me right there.. ahhh ok there we go.. Whole Foods, they have the BIG thing of Fage yogurt on sale for 6.99... yogurt got it, wait what's this brand it has 24 grams of protein, WOW.. hmmm ok.. let me try this one too, oh what else do they have.. An hour later.... on to the next place. By the time I'm driving to the next place I'm nauseated from the gas pressure and I think I just did too much, lifting a grocery bag, walking around for an hour, etc.. but I still need some groceries.. Let me go to the store on the way home. I get to my street.. I think I can..I think I can.. I go straight instead of turning, I pull into the parking lot and I sit in the car feeling wiped out but trying to psych myself up.. wait what do I even need again? Oh that's right SOUP! I walk in, as normal as I could and see the motorized cart, I jump in, screw it, I need it.. MEEP MEEP! I get my shopping done with ease, but I bought too much, how am I gonna get this home? sigh.. I drive the cart out to my car, put the items in the front seat. Go to drive the cart back into the store and it stalls going up the lil' incline and pushes the full force/weight of it onto my stomach.. OUCH.. the guy from inside comes from outside to help, and he yells at his female co-worker who is standing less than a foot from me, for not helping me. I don't necessarily agree with HOW he said it, but i'm glad he said it so I didn't have to. I come home and pull out the light things, the rest can wait.. inside groceries put away as much as possible, pants off.. ahhhh hmm I'm hungry... WOW that was the BEST cream of chicken and mushroom soup I've ever had in my whole life.. I would hurt someone for some pizza right now.. I don't even like pizza.. but I do like the crust.. mmmm Soup.. delicious.. couple hours later, I wasn't hungry but because I knew it was in there I had some chicken salad.. I wanted to see how it went down, how hard it was to chew, etc.. all in all I had about 1 tablespoon of it, maybe a lil' less. Went down well, tasted even better... tomorrow I'll eat that.. tonight is my first night home, my first night sleeping in a bed, I layed on my bed at my moms but it was too high and hard to get up and down from, the couch, too cushy, the recliner, just right... so I stayed and slept in that recliner 95% of the time.. So now I'm in bed laying on my side.. wanting to roll onto my stomach and just SLEEP a good sleep.. on the upside NO pain meds today, all systems are GO and now I'm just tuckered out.. so with that I will say good night world.

Surgery gas can last up to 6 weeks but 1-2 weeks is normal. Your gas is from surgery, while the gas-x etc relieves some of it, although it's gross it's better to just get it out. Passing gas of any form is my pet peeve, so I'm utterly disgusted with this stage. But it'll pass and I'm staying really active to help it move around and disapate.

GOOD JOB! Keep up the good work!

Ok so Friday 12/18/09 I got my band, I woke up going "OMG WHAT DID I DO TO MYSELF" as the pain kicked in. I'm not sure WHO lied and said it's painless, and you could totally be back to work on monday, but somebody did. I think compared to most I'm doing relatively well. My uncomfortableness (is that a word? wait it is now) is mostly from over doing it today and gas. Have I mentioned how much I distain gas??? like it's a serious pet peeve of mine when people burp or pass gas in other ways without excusing themselves from the room first, or worse do it and think it's funny. I think I'm emotionally scarred from all the belching lol. As I hid in my mom's room away from everyone but her, just repeating excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, over and over again. So much so she was like just stop saying it lol. Moving forward, I don't remember most of Friday. Yelling at the nurse, telling her to just stop talking. My friend putting me in the car to take me home, and then hours later my mom coming to rescue and taking me home with her. Don't remember much of that either. But I remember glimpses of it. YAY FOR GOOD DRUGS! Never would I ever tell anyone to do this as an "outpatient" I would suggest if you have the option to stay in the hospitial over night, that you STAY. Friday Day 1, I didn't eat anything, just water and ice chips. Saturday Day 2, I did some vegetable broth. But mostly water and ice chips with the occassional popsicle. Sunday Day 3, I woke up hungry... maybe it was the smell of the turkey that had been baking all night, or maybe just the fact that I hadn't eaten in about 5 days but I was hungry. I woke up and had some yogurt and helped my mom cook our "Turkmas" dinner - Basically christmas dinner but we have all the thanksgiving foods and it's usually a week before Christmas, so everyone can be there. Out of habit, as I was making the deviled eggs I tasted the filling, "hmmm that went down easy." Then my sister started serving up her pumpkin bread.. check on the list.. hard breads, hard breads.. hmmm week 3.. ok but it's kinda mushy and soft and oh so pumpkiny, I won't even put butter on it. So she gives me a 1/2 of an end piece. I pinch the corner off, just enough to get the taste in my mouth and let it disolve. I did that twice and then realized it wasn't her "from scratch" bread and threw it out. Proceeding with cooking the dinner (ok well HELPING, since I was in no shape to cook it like usual.) I made yams, and thought hmmm I could puree these.. wait I don't like candied yams/sweet potatos (I use sweet potato, but make it like yams, tastes better). But the sugary sweet glaze I made for them was delicious, I kept wanting to "test" it..I fought that battle and won. I know what sugar does to me without a band, not in a hurry to find out what it does to me with one. Ok so "Turkmas" 2, Me 1... Feeling the urge of hunger again, I look in the fridge for another yogurt or jello, but I see those deviled eggs. Mmm they're cool now.. I can just eat the filling. Filling of egg #1 gone, filling of egg #2, oh wait hard boiled egg is mushy.. let me see if I can. wait yep I can. Turkmas 4, me 1... The crowd gets there and they devoure my sister's homemade peanut butter fudge. I'd been avoiding it, no problem, but when everyone was surrounding the plate and raving about it.. I wanted a taste. I went to pick a lil' piece up and it crumbled. The lapband Gods make an interception.. Turkmas 4, me 1. Dinner is ready... my mom tells me she made things I could eat.. No mom, technically I'm not supposed to eat it yet, well wait let me just try it and see. Dinner is served, everyone gets their HUGE plates, I get a cake plate. I take exactly 1/2 teaspoon of all the things I think/know will go down: 1/2 teaspoon of mashed potatos 1/2 teaspoon of stuffing 1/2 teaspoon of gravy or well wait maybe a lil' more. 1/2 teaspoon green bean casserole (french) 1/2 teaspoon pistachio pudding salad 1/2 teaspoon of jello salad (my mom pureed all of the fruit into it so I could eat it and not have to chew or pick it out) 1 itty bitty piece of turkey (about the size of my spoon) So all in all I have 3-3.5 teaspoons of food on my mini plate. Everyone is looking at me and chuckling telling me, I'm a better person than they are, they just couldn't do it. That they wait all year for this meal. Umm I know, I cook it... it's freakin' OUTSTANDING.. but some things are more important. I take my time and try everything on my plate. My once around the plate equaled my brother's first piled on plate time. He says "I'm ready for seconds" and I say me too as I continue to dip the tip of my spoon into the seperate piles for the second time. About 1/2 way around I've had enough... 1/2 of what I took is now sitting on my plate. I figure if I get hungry I can go back and try more later... Oddly enough that lil' bit of food, still gave me the itis! Turkmas 10, me 1... lol I went upstairs and took a nap, woke up two hours later wondering if I missed pie. Pumpkin, hmmm I just eat the pumpkin part and not the crust...Redi whip too? Yes please... Turkmas 15, me 1... All and all I felt good, and I felt MUCH better after eating some real food, I came online and saw how some other people had blended up lasagna and chili, etc.. on day 3 so I felt pretty good about my choices, even if Turkmas kicked my butt...

At a month post op you're only supposed to be walking, and as long as your Protein is up you're fine and you'll lose, lose, lose which is kinda the purpose. Protein up, calories down is the way this works, let us know how you progress, and at 4 weeks no move to solids yet? That will give you more caloric intake as well, unless you're restricted from solids I would make that move.

Unless you've been taking laxatives call your dr ASAP.

K banded on friday- don't remember much. My mom came and got me and took care of me for the last 2 days... I strictly stayed on the 48hr post op diet. Today I had yogurt. Then I got daring and had a couple of pinches from a piece of pumpkin bread, then 2 deviled eggs, then a teaspoon of all of the following: mashed potato, stuffing, green bean casserole, jello salad, and a bite of turkey. Yes it was "turkmas" at my house... and I ate basically a bite or two of everything with no issues. I intend onn having pumpkin pie later too.. The surgery was quick and annoying (the nursing staff and anantheisiologist) and I don't remember friday, yesterday was sore and gassy. Today was less sore, more gassy. But I woke up hungry and wanting to eat, not a lot, just eat something of substance. So far so good. I know I know post op diet.. you do you, I'll do me :thumbup:

just over 48hours post-op and I'm gonna have to say no. Not yet...lil' soon, but I knew what I was getting myself into.

It's pretty common and expected.. Both of mine and my forearms hurt, just had surgery yesterday... My neck muscles hurt too... Keep up with the gas-x strips and exercising it out.

Every doctor is different but there is a set lapband diet, if you're even in doubt go off of that. It should be in all of your materials. Lapband is the same regardless of surgeon. The process and protocols behind it are the same. Pre-op diet is different from post op. That's based off your personal health issues and you BMI. I cheated on my pre-op twice had my surgery yesterday. My surgery weight was 299.7 so even with the cheating I still lost 16lbs. Don't stress over it. Just make sure your last 3 days you're on it so your body is clean.

Banded - don't remember most of it, besides being annoyed with the anatheisiologist before and then the nurse after... Went home, my mom came and got me a few hours later.. Was sore and burpy all day, liquid loritab keeps me knocked out. Gas-x strips are your friend as well as your heating pad. I slept in a recliner, where I felt most comfortable. Throat and shoulder pain comes and goes, over all it feels like a super intense upper body/stomach workout. I woke up at 2:22 this morning feeling about 90%, today I'm feeling 92-93%, getting there... Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow.

Less than 4 hours til I go in... I'm still up, not tired, not anxious, not scared, just have lots to do before I go in since I know I'll be down most of tomorrow and Sat. Finishing up cleaning and doing some laundry. More I do now, less I'll have to do after. I should have cleaned my room this week but I didn't was busy with other things.. If I have time I'll get to it before I go.. Well whatever I can do for the next 2 hours.. I gotta shower at 5 or 5:30, then prayer conference call from 6-7.. by the time I'm off the call I'll be at the surgery center. So umm yeah. I keep feeling like there's something I'm forgetting, but there's not. CPAP machine that I've never used (Check in box still) Medicines (Check) Loose fitting clothes (check) Lipgloss (Check) I should have got a pedicure.. I need a pedicure, I've been putting it off.. UGH.. I could do the paint over, but that's just tacky...sigh Ok Kitchen clean, office clean, living room working on it, guest bathroom done, just my room, bathroom and the rest of the living room to finish. WOO HOO.. Then shower and be ready to go. I wonder why I didn't get any "pre-surgery" don'ts as far as like lotion, etc... I have coconut oil in my hair...it's not going anywhere... I've already used a gas x-strip... I think my body doesn't know what to do with itself, gas in my chest, I guess from that "Whey Up" energy drink... If you haven't tried them you should 20gms of protein low sugar no carb. If you can drink a 5 hour energy drink, you can drink this, tastes about the same to me. Let's see whatelse... I guess that's all for now.. going in.. see you on the other side. I'll be praying and confessing over myself until it happens. I confess that all goes well, that I come out of surgery without incident. That I experience rapid recovery and healing with no sickness and great success, in Jesus name... Ok let me go be productive. I'm sure I'll be back later to fill you all in or document it for myself here in my blog.

Ok stupid question time, my fellow bandsters... Tomorrow is surgery day, and I'm REALLY confused on one stupid lil' detail... when you have your surgery as an out patient are you dressed and your shirt is up? Or are you in a hospital gown? I've been reading and it seems like people have various stories, and I'm tryin' to figure out what to wear tomorrow... silly I know.. But someone posted "Women where a buttoned down top and no bra". I can't quite put my mind around that one.. Can someone please explain?

Same to you my dear! We can swap stories later lol! Prayers and blessings to you! :biggrin:

Less than 4 hours til I go in... I'm still up, not tired, not anxious, not scared, just have lots to do before I go in since I know I'll be down most of tomorrow and Sat. Finishing up cleaning and doing some laundry. More I do now, less I'll have to do after. I should have cleaned my room this week but I didn't was busy with other things.. If I have time I'll get to it before I go.. Well whatever I can do for the next 2 hours.. I gotta shower at 5 or 5:30, then prayer conference call from 6-7.. by the time I'm off the call I'll be at the surgery center. So umm yeah. I keep feeling like there's something I'm forgetting, but there's not. CPAP machine that I've never used (Check in box still) Medicines (Check) Loose fitting clothes (check) Lipgloss (Check) I should have got a pedicure.. I need a pedicure, I've been putting it off.. UGH.. I could do the paint over, but that's just tacky...sigh Ok Kitchen clean, office clean, living room working on it, guest bathroom done, just my room, bathroom and the rest of the living room to finish. WOO HOO.. Then shower and be ready to go. I wonder why I didn't get any "pre-surgery" don'ts as far as like lotion, etc... I have coconut oil in my hair...it's not going anywhere... I've already used a gas x-strip... I think my body doesn't know what to do with itself, gas in my chest, I guess from that "Whey Up" energy drink... If you haven't tried them you should 20gms of protein low sugar no carb. If you can drink a 5 hour energy drink, you can drink this, tastes about the same to me. Let's see whatelse... I guess that's all for now.. going in.. see you on the other side. I'll be praying and confessing over myself until it happens. I confess that all goes well, that I come out of surgery without incident. That I experience rapid recovery and healing with no sickness and great success, in Jesus name... Ok let me go be productive. I'm sure I'll be back later to fill you all in or document it for myself here in my blog.

Congratulations! That year will be gone before you know it!

Thank you, I figured as much...but some of the things I was reading had me wondering.. and WOW 83lbs since getting your band in Nov or just total? Either way congrats and thanks again!

Thank you kindly! :biggrin:

PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM!!! Yes He is, all the time! Glad you ladies are on track! I go in tomorrow! Glory! :biggrin:

LOL thus why I'm glad I work from home and can ban the Cookies lol... Everyone keeps asking when my cookies are going to be ready (I make cookies once a year, people pre-order them in advance they love them so much) and I had to let them no.. like the Seinfeld Soup Nazi.. NO COOKIES FOR YOU!!! lol