effie28

Hi all, I'm new to this forum. It's been a long time since I have sought help since I was banded. I had my band put in May 30, 2003, so I am 6.5 yrs out. I only had problems with a couple of overfills in the beginning. Everything went as planned. I lost 110 pounds in a year, which I was very happy with, UNTIL............. I have PMR (Polymyalgic Rhuematica) a condition that causes me such pain in my upper arms that I can't hardly move my arms to feed myself and it gives me severe temporal headaches. Unfortunately the cure for this requires large daily doses of prednisone over a LONG period of time. I've had this once before and the symptoms went away after a yr with treatments. It's been a year and a half this time and I'm still having symptoms when trying to wean off of prednisone. My problem is when I take prednisone, it irritates my stomach...........stomach swells............band is too tight.....no fill.....pill goes through...no stomach irritation, so I had to have all my fill taken out. I've been on this medication for a year and a half and have gained BACK 50 pounds! I need a fill..........I need my band to curb my eating...............I'm so down! I can't get the fill until I'm off the prednisone and right now it looks like I'm going to have to go the full 2 year recommendation for getting rid of this stupid PMR. Any words of encouragement? MrsMikey357

Mel, I had those problems at first and I found that drinking just plain hot water, no tea or coffee, just water helped to calm my chest pains. This was after I called my doctors office and verified that this was normal and I didn't need to go to the hospital MM357

Thanks Donna, I watch what I eat already, the problem is you could drink Water with prednisone and gain weight! I have difficulty walking because of some other problems, but I lost the 110 without exercise. As for WW.......if it worked for me, I wouldn't have needed a band. MM357

When you get enough Protein, the hunger goes away, so my advice it to increase the protein and stay away from the muffins. MM357