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Is it normal to feel my drink go down??? I had the sleeve on May 8th and also a hernia repair so not sure if it's the sleeve or repair I had done. I'm so tired of not being able to drink without it coming up and having to burp. More discomfort than pain. Has anyone else had this issue and will it ever go away????

I know I have been gone for a while and just wanted to check in and see how everyone is doing.

Just received my surgery date and I'm excited and nervous. After losing my husband 4yrs ago I put on over 150lbs and actually ended up in the hospital & almost lost my life because of it. Promised my daughter I'd do whatever it took to not scare her like that again, so here I am 4 weeks out. I changed my whole way of eating but I have medical issues that prevent me from working out so I dropped the water weight but now struggling to drop more. Can I ask what it's like after the surgery to those who have had it? That is my biggest apprehension, I so want to be done with blood pressure diabetic and other meds so I can't wait to drop this weight so I can have my knee replacement and hernia surgery. Been living in a fog too long and I so want this for a better, healthier life.

I converted from the lap band to the sleeve, and am 10 days out. Honestly, the recovery for the band was worse than the recovery for the sleeve has been. I have not had nearly any pain and very little discomfort. I didn't think I would be hungry, but can swear I have felt this way a few times. I am having trouble staying on the liquid diet, as I want more. I realize this is a big mind game, but I am ready for something of substance. Currently, I am doing tomato Soup and applesauce as my meals. I have caught myself eating more than 4 oz, I didn't think I would even have the appetite to get that much down. I feel as though I need something else to eat to be satisfied and have caught myself in the pantry getting a little spoon of Peanut Butter and "sneaking" it. I have had no trouble getting it down, I just feel as though I want more. I know once I start the stage II diet, it will be much better. I am just ready to be off the liquids as it is really getting to me. Did anyone else feel this way? I thought for sure I wouldn't even have the want to eat...but that is totally not the case.

So I was handling my pain pretty well the first week. I took my Dilaudid pills a good amount each day, 2 pills per dose (4mg total) about 2-3 times a day. I started weaning off and using Tylenol which worked for days 7-8. But when I took off my steri-strips, the next two days (today is that second day) I've been suffering with a lot of port pain. I would rate it as a 6 right now. I still have some Dilaudid and took 3 (I developed a tolerance) and I am still suffering from it. It's VERY uncomfortable and the port site is the ONLY place I'm really suffering. I only have like 8 pills left out of my original 30... ugh. What do you guys do for your pain?? -Jason

I am having my sleeve done tomorrow and I am struggling with the clear liquid diet already and it's only 8:50 in the morning. I am so nervous and excited at the same time. Hoping everything goes well.

So I had my final appointment with my doctor this past Thursday. Surgery date is this coming up Wednesday the 9th. He told me to lose 10 pounds by surgery date. I am now 4 days till surgery and have lost 1 pound. Feeling very discouraged because he said he will post pone surgery if I'm even 1 ounce over the 10 pounds. I've already set my work leave up and all and just hate that all this is gonna be put on hold due to a stupid 10 pounds.

I had my surgery almost 10 months ago. Will be on the 16th. When I started my journey I weighed 390 pounds. When I weighed in yesterday, 245 pounds!!! I feel amazing! I never thought I would ever be back to this size. It is wonderful to go into a normal store( like Walmart) and buy clothes off the rack. I used to buy through a magazine. I still lose about 2 pounds a week.

It has been almost 10 months since I had the sleeved and I am down 171 pounds 14 sizes down and total body loss 127 inches. Anything is possible if you put your mind to it and follow the program. The sleeve is not going to do all of the work for you but if you work for it you can achieve your desired results. Wish I would have done this 10 years ago.

Hello Everyone, Well, I decided to go for the lapband and do the self pay with Dr. Jossart here in S.F. California. I will pay 12,500 and 4,000 for five years of follow up care for fills ect. I was going to try and find Dr. Ortiz but thought it would be easier on my children in I had it done close to home for one night. I just adopted my son eight months ago and really feel uncomfortable being away for too long. I have been home on disablity for over a year and think it is time I do something so I can really enjoy my children. I blew a disk and need to replace my left hip from a football accident that happen when I was 12. So I am doing the lapband ad my 1st procedure. My partner had gastric by-pass August 2003 and has lost 130 pounds. During that time my 8 year old daughter started to fall apart and came to believe we were not ever coming back. When we were in Kaiser there were a lot of complications for my partener and it turned into a 14 day hospital stay versus 5 days. She almost died and another woman did died. I was so overwhelemed with all the complications I saw. So for my children's sake who are 8, 7, and one I thought I'd keep in short and sweet in hopes of keeping their anxiety down and so I'd be around I chose the lapaband. It was hard because I would most likly have full coverage for the by-pass with Kaiser. I hope to recoup some of the money when I start feeling better and earning some extra money later down the line. I keep telling myself that I am worth it and I will be able to pay off the money as I get better. I watched Oprah the other night and they had done a special on a woman who had been 500 pounds. She lost 301 after by-pass surgury. Her story motivated me to do something. I too keep telling myself I can beat this by .... and the years keep passing and the medical problems keep mounting as my weight creeps up and up. She talked about the pain she was in and how she had come to accept it as normal and that she had some to point she was unable to move. Even though I am 300 pounds I feel the same way. I am in pain all the time and move more like I am eight verus 38. I need the help and while some have asled whya message I am sending my daughter by having used surgury to loose weight I hope that by being healthier they will follw my example of eating well and caring for myself. In fact, my daughter came in and saw some of Oprah with us and said something like you need to sweat to loose wieght like her to loose weight ...right. I don't think she gets that the surgery part is a tool but she inderstands the life style changes are necessary for me to feel better. I simply told her it was my turn to get better. My partner is better and while it seems that the weight loss with the lapband is slower I hope to loose 100 pounds. I am scared but I hope to be a sucess like so many people here. Thanks for listening to me ramble. The baby is up and I need to go. I hope all is well for everyone here. Take care, Melanie :banana

i cant believe it. i suffered from PCOS and havent gotten pregnant til now, the old fashion way without trying. i am down 140lbs. hopefully, i will remain healthy and continue being healthy with gaining a healthy amount of weight without blowing up. wish me luck!

this is one heck of an experience...especially since i was a virgin to completely everything that has to do with surgery....having an IV, being put to sleep, being cut enough to where tools are able to insert my body, and all the medication i was prescribed...this is even my first time taking hydrocodone too...! Well this port pain is no joke.....and the gas...is there and it is bothering me but not as bad as the port, but with both of those mixed together i have been kinda loosing my mind b/c the gas is still in my abdominal area....my throat feels dry as cotton, and b/c im too chicken to make myself cough out the gew stuck in my throat from the barium swallow and the snot created from sitting under the cold air, which that always has promoted mucus and cold like symptoms for me as long as i can remember. My headache is annoying too...does anyone know if i can take aspirin??? my incisions seem to be ok, they are stll all taped and bandaged up..the only spots with with the most blood that i can tell was gushing out was the port site, and the incisions are pretty close together.... Now i dont know if this is b/c my mouth is so dry but im craving for something to moisten my mouth so i tend to be hungry...not like i wanna a big burger and fries...but like i would be satisfied with something soupy with flavor....is it bad for me to be hungry the first day out?? The only thing i ate was a little thing of sugar free black cherry flavored Jello....now im kinda craving a protien shake...but dumb me forgot to bring milk over here to my mom's so ill have to send her for that asap because im hungry/mostly parched!!! A far as my experience at the surgery center...they weren't lying when they say this is an outpatient procedure b/c i got there around 6:30 this morning and i was out of the surgery center and on the road at like 9:30ish the staff were in such rush...i didnt even get to talk to my surgeon after the procedure b/c he was already on body # 2...for the day..I have no idea what size band i have but i do know its the LAP BAND AP... Oh the one thing i did get was the pictures of the band inside of me...and geez louise my stomach is surrounded in fat..the band looks like its just wrapped around fat...i was kinda worried wondering to myself if the DOC actually placed it in the correct place b/c there is nothing but yellow fat and then the band around it..do yall know if thats normal?? I saw a pic of my liver and it looks all healthy...(from what i saw) i didnt see any fat around it or anything... I have come to the conclusion that since i put myself through all this just to loose weight, i better stick to this plan b/c this change is serious....I would be a fool to completely disobey the rules and try to fight the band instead of having it work for me.... I appreciate your time in reading my post....please feel free to let me know ur opinions and tips of what i have been experiencing to give me other outlooks on things... Thanks again!

I like to blog. I think I've established that in the past. And I want to blog right now. But I have nothing to blog about! How do you blog about nothing? I'm sure I can find a way but I'll save the time and energy and just not, mostly. I am down 2 - two - dos - deux - more pounds. I don't know how. I don't know why. I just woke up yesterday and it was gone. I don't know what I did to lose it. And I don't know where I put it - not looking for it, though. It's just gone. Poof. It's weird to just lose weight. Without trying. I've done this before. I'm sure I'll do it again. But it's weird. It makes me think I can do this sans the band. But then reality hits and I know that if I don't get banded, I'm likely to continue to yo-yo and that's what I want to STOP! It's never been a question about whether or not I can lose the weight. And in some ways, I'm fortunate. I don't go crazy for chocolate - don't like the stuff, actually. I don't like pie/cookies/cakes/sweet breads/candy/you-know-that-generally-sweet-stuff-that-most-people-will-kill-for. Love to bake/make it. Don't love to eat it...in general. Yes, I eat cookies. Yes, I'll have a piece of birthday cake. But I don't crave it. And I don't want piece after piece after piece of it. And in that, I'm fortunate, I think. I do love potatoes. And bread. But I don't want piece after piece after serving after serving of that, either. I consider that fortunate, as well. I am quite pleased/relieved/happy about having gotten back to healthy eating. Which is not to say I'm a health food junkie - I certainly enjoy my guilty pleasures, on occasion. But I am way more conscientious about what's going in my mouth, how much and even how much I've already had for the week. For example, where I used to eat cheetos I now eat carrots. And with choices like that, and it's just one of many, I think - why can't I do this myself? I think the band will offer a kind of security, though. A feedback mechanism, of course. But, when the hormones go crazy from pregnancy (I hope) I can go get the band tightened up until I'm through it. I hope this is how it can work. I hope I'm not setting myself up for future failures. I feel like I've already had enough in my life...but I'm not going there today.... One week down...three to go...and then the last month... Here's to hoping!

Sunday Worship and Praise- Our God I hope you had a Blessed Sunday! I wasn't going to church today because I was feeling a nausea and just blah. Hubby took the kiddos and they all went to Sunday School. I was sitting flipping through the channels and just picked up the phone and called my Mom. It was about 20 min before church was to start. She said she would be right over and get my. Needless to say, hubby was very happy and suprised to see me sitting in the sanctuary waiting for him to get out of men's class. I think there was a big reason that God wanted me there and for today it was the praise and worship. During this part of the service, I was standing, dancing, arms raised up and didn't feel sick at all. All my focus was on God and worshipping Him. After that I was done in, lol. One of the songs that was played was Our God by Chris Tomlin. It just touched my heart. Right now it is about a week after my surgery and I'm having these what did I do thoughts ( not quite buyer's remorse). What will people say that I haven't told yet? Will I every get over this blah feeling I'm having right now? This song brought me such peace today. There’s no one like our God. He is greater, higher, stronger, Healer, awesome in power! And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us. And if our God is with us, then what can stand against? There is NOTHING that I can't accomplish if He is with me!!! He will raise me up from the ashes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlA5IDnpGhc

Stayed at a Hotel last night because of the Christmas Party. Had mexican omlette, 1/2 real potato hashbrowns and toast... coffee w cream and sweetner Slept all afternoon... JC Mac & Cheese Entre Choc Brownie Buttery Microwave Popcorn I fell off the wagon, cut the wagon up... deep fried and dipped it in gravy and ate it this weekend!!! I will get back on track on Monday.....

Hi, My husband and I are scheduled to be banded on October 16th in Mexico. Just wondering if anyone else out there will have the same "birthday" as us. Good luck to everyone and thanks for all of the wonderful advice!:biggrin:

Well im 2months 10 days out of surgery feeling great can pretty much eat anything with out issues havent started the gym yet because im waitin on payday to hire a PT but im down 48lbs im not sure if im doing it wrong if i shouldve lost alot more weight with my time but i have no complaints i am eating as clean as possible but sometimes you just have to eat whats there but i do take my daily protien eat clean no sodas or alcohol no smoking so hopefully i can loos 10more pounds by mid december but i can say i will sure as hell try

HELLO,Has anyone had the band in takes lexapro anti-anxiety med..because i have gained alot of weight from this med in need to know will this effect the band..thanks

I feel so off when I don't post on the right day, so I will post for yesterday and today! Yesterday was great I only had one protein shake which equals about 70 grams of protein. I also ran my miles. Today I am getting ready to run and then I will have a protein shake and that's it! Until next time, Keep the Faith!

The last 10-15 lbs are coming off very slowly, how about you?

I had my sleeve done jan 15,2019.. i was looking for a buddy. So we can go through this together!! Chat about our experiences. . The high an lows and everything in between.. Sent from my SM-G965U using BariatricPal mobile app