Jess55

The first couple of weeks my stomach was making a lot of noise but it wasn't hunger. It was just noise, it will go away

Yeah I didn't touch on never seeing your surgeon again. The PA and the surgeon switch off seeing me, so every other month I see my surgeon. And as for post op appointments. I was told I will go every month for the first year, every 3 months, the second year, I think twice the third year and then just once a year there after

I'm an LVT. (a nurse for animals). I took a week off, but probably could have gone back at 5 days. Most people do not have a pain pump, by the way. But even though I was back I wasn't allowed to lift anything heavy for about 3.5 weeks. I kept it to dogs no larger than 25#. I did start lifting a few days sooner than I was supposed to because a dog looked like it was going to crash and I had to get it to the back. As for you I think you may need to take more than a week off. There is no way you are going to be able to lift the gurney into the rig. I mean I'm sure the gurney alone weighs more than 20#. So there is no way you'll be able to do your job after 4 days. I mean think of it, if there was a life and death emergency are you really going go sit back and not help? But if you do you'll risk tearing a suture and possibly giving ypurself a hernia

Do it! See if you like it. If not, just find an activity you really love. I'd been going to the gym for years. Got really comfortable on the elliptical. Then I gave in to my friend who kept telling me to try kickboxing. Well I found that I LOVE that. I tried going to the gym after I'd been doing it for a few weeks and found I was bored. I do kickboxing now usually 6 days a week.

A great mushie recipe is baked ricotta It has ricotta, sauce and mazzerella in it. Find the complete recipe at www.theworldaccordingtoeggface.com It's a great site and has all sorts of recipes for all stages

That's excellent! It feels good doesn't it. I didn't keep much smaller clothes and the ones I did I already out shrunk them. I did get a pair of capris last week a size 16w and they felt a tiny bit big, so I tried on a normal 16 and they zipped and everything but tight, and they were 98% cotton so I was afraid I wouldn't fit in them once I washed them, but I know maybe 10 # or so I will no longer be in the womans section, I can't wait!

In my actual closet all I really have are sweatshirts and stuff like wintery clothes and I think everything in there is now to big on me. I guess I need to get rid of a lot of it. I tried cleaning out my drawers and I have a few bags in my room of clothes I need to get rid of. I can't seem to get rid of everything that is to big because I don't have very many clothes that fit. So what I've been doing is using my bigger shirts as sleep clothes. Really I have 1.5 jeans (ones kind of big so that's the half) 3 t shirts and I'm almost ready to get larges. I just bought a pair of capris for the summer. Besides scrubs and work out clothes, that's all I have that fit right

I had a copay of $250! I don't think my insurance paid anywhere near $72,000. I think they only paid like 16 or $18000. Not positive though. Kind of sucks for my insurance because like 2 months before my surgery my company switched to Oxford, now 5 months after my surgery my company switched back to Empire BCBS.

I was around 300 lb when I went to college. I am 5'2" so I was quite large and it was a little tight but I fit in the desks.

I think it varies from person to person. I never really experienced bandster hell. I've not gotten really hungry from the get go, sire i get hungry after 4-5 hours but not like starving unless i go a long time between meals, and had my first fill, a little one, 5 months post op. But from what I've read, it could start a day after surgery, or up to a couple weeks post op.

As for the "lump". I'm thinking it may have something to do with the hiatal hernia repair. I had that feeling too for the first 2-3 weeks, I felt like there was something in my throat and I would swallow a few times and it seemed to go away for a bit. As for losing weight, the first 6 weeks are about healing, don't worry about the scale. Some people cant lose on to few calories also. I lost week one, then I fluctuated with the scale until week 5 when I started eating normally and got back up to 1200 calories. So that is completely normal.

Honestly you are going to have to order samples and try them for yourself. Because you can ask everyone here, but everyone has different tastes so if one person likes it, you may not. Ive seen a lot of people like bariatric advantage. That one made me want to vomit. I tried the cookiesand cream eas myoplex lite, that was ok. I love the unjury vanilla and chocolate. I just ordered more to have on hand for if I get another fill or I need a little kick with my weight loss. They also have a chicken soup flavor for your clear liquid portion that isn't bad. I tried the Isopure liquids and couldn't stomach them. So the soup was the only thing that gave me protein in my cleAr stage. So really try some samples

I'm hoping you don't get it. I think I was 2 or 3 weeks post op when I was at my 2 nd job and there were like a couple people who went home sick because they were nauseas and vomiting and I found out that people were out all week due to this virus that was going around the hospital. And I was like I CAN'T get this and I'm gonna kill someone if I do. We spent the next 1/2 hour or so wiping everything down. Luckily nothing happened but I was so worried Good luck and hope the virus skips you.

I have 5, and I had the hiatal hernia repair.

I got 0.75 cc. When I was there I was thinking, that's so little, but now I'm thinking it was all I needed

I am 5 months out and I just got my first fill last week, and only 0.75 cc. Prior to that I wasn't getting hungry between meals and was eating the correct portions. The past month I was getting hungrier and felt like I was struggling, wanting to eat more (not going back for seconds but still kind of felt hungry). So while I was still at about 1 lb per week I decided it was time. So far it has helped and I feel I am back go where I was before I started getting hungry, so I'm happy. As for your doc telling you that you need one. In all my post op visits my doc has never once asked me if I wanted one, nor offered one. I think he feels I will say something if I wanted one. I said last week I was starting to get hungry, so he gave me a fill. So think about it that way are you getting hungry? Are you struggling? I am not ever going to get to the point where the band tells me what I can and can't eat, nor do I not want to be able to eat Breakfast.

I think I would answer the questions from before you had your baby. Yeah they just want to see if you have sleep apnea. You may have to go for a sleep study, to see

Weird that your doc had you go to the waiting room for Water. Once my dic had me sit up from my fill he handed my a cup of water and had me drink it. I didn't even feel it when my doc gave me the fill. I had found it weird when I read that some docs numb you, I'd thought why would you want to be stuck twice. But my doc didn't use lidocaine and I didn't feel it. As for what you feel after it, not sure if it will be the same for you, I had my fill after 5 months because I had just started feeling hungry between meals, so I have really had restriction from the get go. It's only been one week since my fill but I feel like it is holding me longer. Not getting hungry between meals anymore. Back to where I was previously I feel. As for most people I've heard the first fill doesn't do that much a lot of times.

I saw someone post about that they had one day a week where they ate higher calories. I started thinking, is this helpful? I usually eat around 1200 calories a day, sometimes 1300. My weight loss has been slower than a lot, averaging 1 lb a week, sometimes less. How many people have tried it and does it seem to work? I know I can't eat to low of calories. I just had a fill Wednesday and I lost like 4 lb on the 2 day liquid diet, then came mushies and my weight immediately started going up again, which I expected, but not by 3lb. I am thinking because I wasn't eating the 1200 calories, hopefully now that I'm back up on my calories it will even out.

I choose to weigh on the day I have to get up early in the morning. I work one morning shift a week, so I weigh Thursday's at 6:40 am, when I wake up after I've gone to the bathroom. That is the only weight I record. Now strangely that is not my lowest weight of the day. It is usually around noon or one (before I eat lunch). I am a chronic weigher it helps keep me on track. I try to ignore the day to day fluctuations. I do try to look at what I ate the day before. But I only truly accept the one weight a week.

I am 5 months post op with only a small fill, 0.75cc plus whatever was in my band at surgery and I can eat anything I want. I do not want to ever get to the point where I physically can't eat something. I don't think there is a need for that

I understand that completely. I knew I was fat, but never felt that way really until I saw myself in the mirror or a picture. I saw a picture of me a few years ago from when my parents and I went to check out the college I went to in 2002 and I got sick, I can't be that big. Or this may sound bad, but when ever I saw other morbidly obese people, I'd say to myself, I don't look like that. Now over 100 lb less than my highest weight if I look at myself in the mirror dressed, I'm not completely disgusted. Naked, I'm still disgusted, but I feel 1000 times better about myself now

Yes you can lose over 100 lb with the band. Also in your favor is the fact you're a man, so you will lose quicker than the women. From the beginning of my pre op weight, I have 111lb to lose. I'd already lost weight from my years of dieting and I've lost over 100lb. (not all with the band)

I was on mushies for one week. As for fills, I'm 5 months post op and just had my first fill Wednesday. Prior to that I was satisfied with what I ate and stayed that way for 4-5 hours. I started getting hungrier the past month, so finally got my first fill. My doc only put in 0.75 cc. So far it seems to be helping. I too, like you am kind of freaked to be to filled. I have yet to really get stuck, have had a few instances which I felt like I didn't chew enough and felt it go down slowly and slight pain, but don't think I was actually stuck. I really don't want the band to ever tell me no, I can't eat that, I just want it to curb my hunger, so I don't think I'll ever have to much put in. And like I said what was put in seems to be working right mow

My tickers at my weight from when I started the pre op diet