Wheres My June Bandsters??

[Aummie58 19]

Happy birthday USA. I am four weeks postop and glad to be healing. Want to shout out to all military serving overseas especially my son in Afghanistan.

I am on www.myfitnesspal.com and would love any Junesters that want to be a support for me. I promise to send some messages of encoragment

Not looking forward to first fill in 2weeks Hope everyone is staying cool today

[blackleopard 12]

well I am finally on the other side of all this. I am banded on june 29 in toronto. the surgical weight loss centre is great. they really know there stuff and very helpful too. I got to start my musies today and i was so happy this morning. I have been drinking three times a day and i still dont feel hungry. also they gave me a book to read and I think that everyone should read it if u have not yet. its called "The Lap-Band Solution" by Paul O'Brien MD.

[lauralou779 23]

I'm 4 days post-op today.

The gas pain...OH THE GAS PAIIIIIN!!!!! Can't desribe how awful it was when I woke up in the recovery room. It's gotten better' date=' and it is still the only heavy pain I've had.

Everytime I move too much, getting in/out of bed I do get that burning pain on the lower left side of my stomach, but it goes away quickly.

Good luck to all of you getting banded this week!!![/quote']

How are you feeling? Hope well.

[fericito 138]

I suppose my first goal would be to get down to 230 by September. I'm hoping that's reasonable enough.

Today I get to start mushy food. I have never, ever been so excited to start eating refried Beans in my entire life.

Also, I have never, EVER been so constipated in my entire life.

Try Miralax - it is finally working for me and I truly believe it to be a miracle lol

[lauralou779 23]

The shoulder pain is due to the trapped gas from surgery. I still don't know why it only travels up to the left shoulder' date=' but honestly, I never had too much of an issue with that. Just a slight aching, like I slept wrong the night before, for one or two days. People not being able to swallow after surgery happens for a number of reasons. I know there's a condition some patients have where the esophagus forgets how to swallow or something like that... (someone back me up here...)

I'd like to think I had a really smooth recovery period. I was banded on the 15th, so today is what, day 9 for me? I swear to you I'm at nearly 100%. My gas pain went away after two days, so I stopped my pain meds after two days. My appetite returned after 4 days (that's not necessarily a good thing since I'm starving all the time now). The rest of the week, I just had to deal with some soreness around my port area from standing up/sitting down. The worst part was getting out of bed because of the stinging sensation from bending my torso, but even that's gone away now. Honestly, I could have went back to work on Thursday and been totally fine.

I really do agree with all the other Bandsters out there who say that walking, walking, walking after surgery is the key to a speedy recovery. And Water. I had trouble getting all my Water down due to the swelling in my tummy making me full so fast, but that goes away too.

Now, on a different note, who here is comfortable talking about BMs? Because I had my first one today, and I thought I was going to die.[/quote']

I have to be honest...I was banded on the15th and I have yet to have a bm without a laxative...and that I try to do as little as possible.

Planning to call my Dr tomorrow, but I also had to start an anti biotic last Thurs and one of the side effects is Constipation.< /p>

[fericito 138]

I"ll be one week post op tomorrow and I am finally feeling GREAT! I think my state of mind is better than some because I've only weighed once and I'm down quite a bit more than I expected and don't know if I was up or down in between. I'm still on liquids for awhile and yesterday was REALLY hard for me emotionally - just not being able to eat so much I love. Anyone else going through that? I can't seem to believe how mental this is as much as physical too. Really surprising me. I am SO glad I did this though - pain and all. So glad.

[fericito 138]

I have to be honest...I was banded on the15th and I have yet to have a bm without a laxative...and that I try to do as little as possible.

Planning to call my Dr tomorrow, but I also had to start an anti biotic last Thurs and one of the side effects is Constipation.< /p>

I had only one and it was actually bloody which scared the poo (haha not) out of me but when I called dr. the reminded me to do laxative and life has been better since. Only used twice but I guess as long as it takes to get your body used to the way it eats/absorbs/etc. is ok? Best of luck to you.

[lauralou779 23]

Banded 6/6/12 officially down 20 lbs since date of surgery. how's everyone else doing?

Congratulations.

[kc00126 0]

June 26 I had my surgery and so far things are great. I had two week liquid diet before surgery and lost 20lbs before surgery and I've lost 10lbs so far after my surgery. I'm pretty happy and surprised at my results.

[thighhigh 23]

Hi Junies!

So I am about halfway through my second post op week. I'm able to eat "mushies" now but I'm not that excited about it as I never really feel hungry anymore. I know there is still some swelling going on but I think the three week pre-op diet knocked the hungry right out of me....

Anyways, what is everyone else doing for excercise right now?

[dliteful! 11]

Hey friends! I was banded 6/8/12 - four weeks ago today, and I've lost 19 in total including my pre-op diet and 11 of those have been post surgery. Slow and steady! Can't wait to say I've lost my first 20. One thing I know is I'll NEVER EVER see those 19 pounds again in my entire life! WOW!

Congrats to everyone! You are all doing great too!

Hugs -

D

[LouisianaLiLi 231]

I'm still just walking and riding the bike. I can't wait to get back to my Power90. I still have weights restrictions for another week and a half.

[blackleopard 12]

I"ll be one week post op tomorrow and I am finally feeling GREAT! I think my state of mind is better than some because I've only weighed once and I'm down quite a bit more than I expected and don't know if I was up or down in between. I'm still on liquids for awhile and yesterday was REALLY hard for me emotionally - just not being able to eat so much I love. Anyone else going through that? I can't seem to believe how mental this is as much as physical too. Really surprising me. I am SO glad I did this though - pain and all. So glad.

What i am finding also very hard too is to watch my family eat all the same food that I ate and loved to eat too at meal times. but now that i am on mushies that has gone away alittle because now I just blend it up what they r eating and all is good. it may look different, but guess what it still tastes the same. yeah mushies.

[blackleopard 12]

yeah i have finally figured out how to make the trackers work. I tired and tired but they have never worked until now. The program to make the trackers have also changed.

[fericito 138]

I don't get to start mushies for about two more weeks but tomorrow I can start puree -ing (is that a word?) some things so looking forward to the variety... and a little nervous