Onederland? Sorta. Kinda. Eh?

[Spot 20]

Tuesday, while on my daily bike ride, I got really sick. Puking off the side of the bike trail sick. I sweated profusely all night, before the fever came. That day, I was 207. I have been vomiting and in and out of the Urgent Care ever since getting IV, ass medicines for nausea and fever and potassium. Anyhow, I'm sitting now at 191. Well, that's what it was before I went and saw my primary care provider today, whom then sent me to get some more IV fluids and 20 ml of potassium (rinse and repeat tomorrow), so I could be more. Probably not much more though.

I'm soooooo freaking happy to not be puking today. I wish the crossover to onederland wasn't so iffy like this. I don't think I'll rehydrate myself up and back over 200, but certainly most of the 16 lbs lost is all Fluid. It was a hell of a way to lose those few significant-to-us pounds.

The thought is that I got sick-sick, and all my retching really pissed my stomach off with the band. Blech.

[Spot 20]

In less than 12 feeling-better hours, I got back up to 202. Today my scale is giving me anywhere between 199 and 202 (isn't there any good scale that doesn't cost a fortune?).

So, I think I may change my ticker to 200lbs and eagerly await for a well-hydrated weight of under 200 .

Geez, I have never lost so much weight while sick. I know it's not weight-weight, just my fluids and such... I'm just saying that I almost freaking withered and crumbled away, lol.

[Woodslass 22]

Holy cow Spot! That's scary to think one can lose that much weight just from fluids. I'm glad you're feeling better, and Onederland will be better when it's a true weight anyway

I'm just trying to make it to Twoderland by September 8th when I go to a family reunion. 30 lbs to get there

[Spot 20]

Ugh, I got sick again for about two days.

I went into urgent care again. My doctor called my Lapband doctor and they all decided to unfill me and let my stomach settle down and heal. Of course, there's nobody that has ever done such a thing in Nowheresville, Wisconsin, lol. Fortunately my Lap-band doctor did a good job explaining how it's done to the hospital's surgeon, whom seemed awfully excited to be learning how to do something new, lol. They made sure they had the proper needle to do the unfill, but no flouroscope. That seems sorta unnecessary considering you can totally feel my port, and you can see where I've been stabbed previously. Plus, I've been filled a few times before, so I knew that the surgeon had to press down a little harder to get through the port. Despite me being willing to do just about anything to stop feeling nauseous, I was plenty sure everybody had this unfill under control. My gallbladder and that surgeon have already played nicely before, so I knew I had a guy who wasn't going to mess around.

Anyhow, he took out around 5ccs. I had 6.4ccs in before, I think. 6 and some change, at least.

I don't have any big plans on eating solid food anytime soon. I think I'm going to do a nice, slow, gradual liquid to mush diet. I'm not ready to be sick anytime soon, so I'm not going to push it. But, now that I only have 1cc or so left in my band, I sure hope I don't start gaining weight before I get filled again.

Blech.

[Woodslass 22]

I am so sorry this kind of stuff keeps happening to you. Did you used to get sick a lot or have problems before the band?

[Spot 20]

Well, I've had post-operative nausea pretty bad before, and have always been pukey.

When I'm sick, I can't imagine NOT throwing up. My body will make me retch until stuff comes up. Since 97% of the time nothing CAN come up past the band, I retch and retch and retch some more. I think this is definitely not working very well with the band (duh, lol). I need to somehow reel in my nausea when it starts. Snake oils, hypnotherapy, aromatherapy - I don't know. I need to get on top of it though so the next time I'm ill, for whatever reason, I can not traumatize my stomach so much with my incessant barfing.

I'm bummed I'm almost completely unfilled right now though. I really hope not to lose any ground while recovering, and getting refilled. I'm out of free fills with Dr. K, so I need to find someone more local. I don't want to pay for fills and airfare, after all.

[Spot 20]

Oh, it's only $25 per fill/unfill with Dr. K. That's not bad. I'll probably keep going to him then.

[Rachel412 116]

I'm sorry, Spot