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After many months of waiting, tons of research, jumping through all the insurance hoops, etc., I finally had my surgery on Thursday, 8/19. Had to spend the night at the hospital Thursday night due to a hiatal hernia repair. Since I've been home, I've completely out of it... but what freaks me out the most is how nauseated I am. The nausea started right after surgery, when they took me for the barium swallow test I was hardly able to stand up and had difficulty trying to keep it down. I can't handle broth at all, I drank a little last night and was nauseated for the rest of the evening. The only things that stay down okay are sugar-free popsicles and water, if I drink it slowly. I'm just looking for anyone who has had any similar experiences... right now, I'm feeling as if the surgery may have been a mistake (although I have lost ten pounds since Monday!) I just can't stand feeling so poorly all the time... although its only been three days, so perhaps I'm jumping on the drama bandwagon a little too soon!

I am six days post surgery, have been doing well on my liquid diet and am healing up just fine. According to my doctor's instructions, I am supposed to graduate to foods including yogurt at a week post surgery. Last night, I decided to give this a trial run. I ate about half a container of a Yoplait Whips yogurt, ate it very slowly, let the yogurt melt into liquid in my mouth before swallowing. I felt fine while eating, and took about a half hour to eat the half-container. About an hour later, I was feeling sick and was sliming. It never did come back up, but I felt awful for the next several hours. Seriously nauseated. I know that I am not supposed to drink after a meal, so I waited a few hours and finally did take a few sips of water. Felt immediate improvement when I did this, although I still didn't feel well for hours. Any ideas about what I did wrong? Really, really would like to prevent that from happening again. Today, I feel like I'll never eat solid foods again!

Thanks to all of you for your replies! I actually did feel a little better today than yesterday, tried to get some liquid Protein down and it worked. I have been using some anti-nausea meds, but they don't seem to be working too well. I took myself off the pain meds yesterday just to see if I could do without them and the pain wasn't bad at all.

I've spent a tremendous amount of time researching LapBand surgery... I've read three books, talked to Bandsters, consulted with a surgeon, etc. I feel that I've prepared myself as best as I can as I wait for my insurance company to approve me. Here's my worst fear... what do you replace your eating habits with? I'm sure I'm not alone on these boards in that food is my best friend at times. I'm sort of mourning in advance for when I am no longer able to eat for comfort. Don't get me wrong, I WANT to get to that point. Its the psychological part of it that I can't quite figure out. Did any of you go to therapy to get through that time after you're first banded? What methods did you use to alter your behavior? I'm two months into the six-month long medicially supervised diet that I have to document for insurance purposes (completely ridiculous, as my entire LIFE has been one long diet) but my doctor indicated to me last week that she's going to go ahead and write a letter to say that I've been on a diet for longer than that. This means I may get approved more quickly than I had anticipated, which is great... but this worry has bubbled to the surface since I've been wrapping my head around the fact that it may happen sooner than later. I've been eating more than normal for me for the last few days, which I'm sure is part of the "last meal syndrome" that I've been reading about on here for weeks. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated!

Am so glad to find this thread! I'm in the VERY beginning of this process, since my insurance company just approved bariatic surgery effective January 1. I've been experiencing this "last supper" thing as well, and I don't even have a surgery date! Look forward to using this forum as a support mechanism during my journey!