spoiltmom

So far I've tried the peanut butter, vanilla custard and caramel. Those are all good. I'm wanting to get the Marshmallow next.

Woot! That went down with no issues:) I'll probably wait until tomorrow morning and try some watery mushies. If they stay down then I may just go slow and keep waiting it out. Right now I'm just happy that the pain is gone.

I love those!

Congratulations!!

I'm going to try a thin/watery protein shake for now and see how that goes. I'm able to drink more today also. Like volume wise. I was only able to do 1/8 cup every hour but I'm able to do a cup to cup and half per hour now. Not chugging it all at one time but drinking it slowly.

Now what? The foaming and sliming has stopped. I'm no longer in pain and I can drink hot or cold liquids with no problems. So was it just swelling or do I still need a slight unfill? For now I'm not taking any chances. I'm sticking with the Clear Liquids and I will call and talk to the nurse about it tomorrow. I will say I feel 100% better compared to Friday. Still too scared to try anything thicker than liquids though.

I stayed in my recliner a lot at first. It was easier that way. Congratulations!!

Honestly I think I would try the sleeve. It was offered to me when I chose the band but I was scared of. Now that I've researched more if anything ever happens to my band I'll be going with the sleeve.

Did you end up with an unfill when you were like this?

I was allowed canned meats on the mushie stage. I love canned ham with a little low fat mayo mixed in.

I tried my pharmacist but he was no help. 10 days ago I started a psych medication called Seroquel XR. It can't be cut in half and it makes you extremely sleepy, dizzy, dopey at first. To get rid of those effects you have to keep taking it daily so your body will adjust. So here I am, too tight and I can't get an unfill until Monday. This pill is a little larger than a Tylenol capsule shaped tablet. Do I try to take with some coffee or warm Water or skip it? If I skip it it maybe Tuesday before I can take it again and by then I'm afraid I will super sleepy again. The sleepiness was just starting to get 50% better.

I hope I am too but I had sips of cold tea from 11 to 3 pm. Then at 4 pm out of nowhere it came back up. I've never been this bad after a fill.

The coffee goes down with less pain than cold liquids though. I can't wait for Monday to come! On a side note after hovering between 173 and 175 for weeks now I hit 169 today. Of course I know it's just from not eating at all.

They can't be crushed, split or chewed. They have to be swallowed whole because they are extended release meds. If I split or crush them at all then they will be immediate release instead of extended release.

I realized after I posted this that it's a dumb question and I should just skip it but I just now got to the point where it's NOT kicking my butt all day. I hate to go back to that.

While I'm waiting for an unfill- what is all this foamy stuff I keep burping up? Today I have had 2 cups of coffee all day and that's it, I'm burping a lot though and it's foamy stuff. Why is that and what can I do for it?

Because when I can eat chicken and bread I'm also hungry all the time. For now my surgeon says to stick to liquids and he will see me on Monday.

Oh gosh. I was up at 3 am throwing up and with my chest/back hurting. I called the office just now and the nurse told me that the surgeon is busy in surgery all day and that I'm probably just tight from swelling. She told me to keep doing liquids and she will let him know and see what he says. Liquids are all I can do, nothing else goes down and I can't imagine having to feel this way until Monday. I told her I could meet him at the hospital if need be. I'm fine with that. I just want some relief. She said she would tell him that but that it's possible I don't need an unfill.

I can eat a Popsicle but no more than half of one. More than that and I throw up.

No actually it was like a month ago. A month ago I got a fill and was super tight so I went back to the doctor. He said I wasn't too tight I just needed to eat slower and let the swelling go down. I did that and within a week I was able to eat bread and chicken again- I haven't been able to eat those in months. So Tuesday I saw my doc again and he said my band needed to be tighter and he added a .5 cc. Since then icant even get a shake down.

My surgeon told me NO liquid calories. Eat real food instead and use the shakes to make sure I'm getting 65 grams of Protein a day. I can eat 65-90 grams of protein a day with no problems so I haven't been doing shakes. Yesterday I went for another fill. This time I got a different nurse and she told me that I should buy some extra Protein drinks and supplements and use them when I'm hungry between meals. She said if I'm hungry between meals instead of snacking on real food I should drink a Protein shake instead to curb my appetite. So what is your take on the shakes?

I can't drink more than 1/8 of a cup of liquids an hour. Any more than that and I throw up. It's taking me forever to drink my Protein shakes. My coffee though, I guess since it's hot, goes down really easily. I know it could just be swelling- I threw up 5 or 6 times yesterday afternoon. Now I'm slowing way down and sipping on things. If I'm still like this Friday morning should I go for a slight unfill before the weekend or wait it out a bit longer? A month ago I was like this and it kept up for almost 2 weeks and it was all from swelling. As soon as the swelling went away, BAM I could eat anything again including bread and chicken.

A friend of mine that was banded over a year ago is having her gallbladder removed tomorrow. Her weight loss has caused horrible gallbladder attacks. Luckily she works at our surgeons office so she gets awesome immediate and free care. Our surgeon said it's very typical to have gallstones and gallbladder attacks after losing a significant amount of weight.

Okay for me losing weight is now getting harder. I think it's because I'm so close to goal. Due to various reasons I don't exercise like I should and I think it's time to push myself on that. I called a local gym here and I can get a membership for $40 a month and a personal trainer is $30 an hour. If I can only do 2 hours a week that would be a great start right? Have any of you used a trainer? How long did you need the trainer before you started to workout solo? At $30 an hour I'd be paying $240 for the first month just for a trainer but I feel like at this point it's an investment in myself. Any advice for me?

I think you can eat so many calories because of your exercise:) I hope to be exercising as much as you do soon.