wannaBLean

I can't get ahold of my doctor's office, but I've been on a new medication lately that has made me sleep a lot the last week. So my pinched nerve in my back flared up and when that happens the pain usually wraps around my stomach. But I haven't had it happen since I got the band- not this bad anyway. So the last day I've been feeling this major pain in my chest/stomach areas and I vomited once this morning because I ate too fast trying to get out the door and it hurt really really bad. I don't know if it's from the pinched nerve or a slip. I know no one can tell me obviously what it is. But can anyone tell me please what a slipped band feels like? Thanks

Aw good for you! I love that feeling!

Congrats! That's great! I was in the exact same place- stuck at 203 for like a month and a half and then got the right fill and now I'm at 195 too!!! Yay!

I had the dry heaves and was vomiting yesterday. Think it's the onset of the flu. Now my stomach is killing me. It woke me up in the middle of the night with excruciating pain. And today it's really really sore. I don't know if it's my band or if it's slipping or what. It's right in the smack center of my abs and it's really painful. Anyone know what I'm talking about and do you think that it slipped? Please help me I'm scared! What if I vomit again? Thanks.

Thanks, I went and got unfilled partially yesterday evening and I am doing way better. :w00t:

How do I know it's too tight or if it's just swelling? Because normally my recovery time varies. I've never had an entire CC put into my band at once, it's usually only a 1/4 or 1/2 but the nurse and I agreed that I wanted to be more aggressive because I am stuck at my weight and still too hungry. Well, Water goes down fine but then yesterday (day after fill) I could only have two bites of applesauce and some green tea and sugar free popsicles. Today, I tried solids (stuuupid)- some cheese- and now even tea comes up. I've vomited so many times since my fill because the first day I kept trying things like milk and stuff and the second day because I ate too much applesauce. I don't know if it's because the band is too tight or if it's because I've been vomiting so much that I'm just swollen. I'm sticking to water for the rest of the day, to see if that helps, but I'm wondering if it just comes down to the band being too tight. Advice?

Seriously, this is hard, but keeping a detailed food diary, subbing your Breakfast or lunch with a no carb shake and exercising daily will help so much. When I was pre-surgery I was on a liquid diet consisting purely of Protein shakes and I lost 20 pounds in a week and a half without even working out. Then I got the band, stayed on the diet for a week before mushies, and then I started exercising (walking) and I lost another 20 pounds within a month and a half. Just my suggestion. You can do this without the band until you actually get the band. The band changed my life, my mindset and erased my hopelessness but the actual weight loss came from me and my lifestyle changes. Hope that helps you all. :smile: Email me if you need support.

If any of you want to email me that haven't already, or if you have and we lost touch, please PM me and I will give you my email or you can give me yours. Send me your first name so I know who you are if we already have met, and we can be buddies because I totally need all the support I can get. Blessings to all!

Oh I'm doing sooo much better thanks for asking. The other doc's office took out .75 and now I'm doing well. Learned my lesson though. :thumbup:

Thanks, I made an appt with a closer doctor and I go in to see him in an hour. I am peeing but can't keep sips down at all. I weighed myself this morning and I've lost 4 pounds in water. At least I can see someone in my area for today and then go back to my regular doc next month.

Wow, so I feel stupid. I went in for my second fill yesterday. I had 2 cc's in me before and he added 2 more. It was too tight and I didn't want him to take any out because I had had NO resistance before but I couldn't keep Water down so I asked him to take out only half a cc. It was going down but coming back up, so I figured I only needed to have a little out. I live an hour and a half away from my doc and was stopping by the office on my way home from an out of town visit to a sick family member and was thinking about that, worried about hitting traffic, and like I said, I didn't want him to take any more out because I have been really wanting resistance and didn't want to go all the way home without getting any. So he said to drink the whole water bottle but I didn't of course because I was preoccupied and the water seemed to be going down and not coming up after slowly drinking a third of the bottle. A half hour later it came back up and ever since then I have been burping and/or vomiting slime every half hour to hour. I can't drink anything. Obviously, it's too tight. My question is, will it get better when the swelling goes down or is that just stupid to hope for? Can the band slip from my light vomiting? I mean, there's very little abdominal flexion when the slime comes up but I'm still worried. I should have drank the whole bottle of water.... I just can't believe how dumb I was to rush out of there without waiting the proper amount of time. What can I do to help this situation or do I just have to suck it up and drive back to the doctor today and get it loosened?

Thank you both. It turned out that I was just eating too fast even though I thought it was slow. I slowed down a looooot and I haven't had any problems since.

The best shakes I've found to be are the Bariatric Advantage brand shakes or the Isopure which is my favorite. I mix the zero carb one with Water or skim milk and it's good. it's a vanilla flavor but the bariatric advantage ones have all different flavors like coffee or strawberry etc. I was told the same thing, but I've heard salads or ok just not with stringy vegetables or with carrots. I also heard nuts of any kind are a no no. It sucks when you first hear of all the restrictions but then over time you stop thinking of them that way and you just avoid them because you have to and it's not a big deal anymore.