SMMC LB support group chicas

[Banded in KS 0]

Holy cow!!! You are tight!!! I could never live with being that tight. I am going in next week and am thinking 1/4 cc will be enough of a change...I hope!

[Wheetsin 714]

I've asked for 1/4cc, but I always get 1/2.

I'm trying my first go at real food today. Kind of. I'm definitely gun shy, so dinne tonight is a mix of albacore tuna, light mayo, white Beans, vinegar, red onion, pepper, and parsley. I took about 2 oz and am munching on it, taking a long time between bites. I feel it, but it isn't getting stuck. But - and I kind of missed this the last few months - 3 small bites in (maune the equivalent of one normal bite) and I'm already full.

If you want 1/4, make sure you stress that with him. Insist on it. I've mentioned it, that I'd like to just try 1/4 this time and see what happens, and gotten 1/2. Which ends up was fine, but still.

My scale hasn't budged since like October, I'm hoping this will help end my plateau, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Banded in KS 0]

Mine hasn't budged either... except the wrong direction. The holidays really fed into my bad habits. I need a fill to break the cycle!

[Wheetsin 714]

I lost a pound or two during Thanksgiving, then seemed to go up about 3 during xmas. I think the "one bite won't hurt" was getting to me. One bite normally wouldn't hurt, but if I'm only having 20 bites that day, and 8 of them are crap... it adds up.

Not sure what I think of this fill. If I don't get any tighter I'll be ok, but so far I seem to go through a really tight spell 3 - 5 weeks after the fill. Makes no sense. I just did my chewable Calcium and I'm gurgling over them. Not willing to try my tuna again, just yet, because I have a meeting in 30 minutes and it's no fun to have to leave a meeting to PB.

[Wheetsin 714]

Gurgling got worse & worse and I've been in the bathroom back and forth, yacking over that damn Vitamin since about 11:45. I can feel the pressure building back up so I'm not done yet. $^#%#

[Banded in KS 0]

Angela, that is not good. You may be too tight.

[Wheetsin 714]

Graphic post ahead, you know me, don't hold anything back. Especially details.

I went in for an unfill around 3:00 after 5 hours of pain and about 20 trips to the bathroom (I mean that literally). I couldn't take it any more. PBs really hurt me. I think I just got irritated & swollen to the point that my own saliva wouldn't pass through, because after the first two yaks there weren't any traces of the Calcium, it was just saliva or saliva by-product. It got to where every 6 - 8 minutes I had to go yak, just from swallowing. I had a girlfriend at work drive me, and during the 15 minute drive from work to the office she had to pull over 4 times so I could leave little wet presents on the side of I-35. And then I left a present in the parking lot of the building, and 4 more presents in the bathrooms inside.

New experience for me today, yakking the infamous "foam". More times than I care to think about. It really is like foam. I thought people were exaggerating. It looks just like you scooped up a handful of bath bubbles, or really dense Shampoo lather. And feels just like that when it comes up. :huggie:

Ironically, after my last yak in the bathroom there, I started feeling OK while waiting for the doctor. Ok like it had passed. But I still went for the unfill, because why chance it, I can always get it put back in.

So YAY to the relief. But I am SO SORE. Dr. H wasn't there, but Dr. J was. First time meeting him. He was SO nice! And was trying SO hard to find the port, but it kept eluding him. He was like, "Does Dr. H normally get this on the first try?!?" I felt bad telling him "yes" because he was trying so hard. I think it was about 5 or 6 minutes of having the needle poking out & shifted around before the port came out from hiding. I felt OK at the time, but a few minutes later - OUCH. And still OUCH. But Dr. J is a rockstar! He fixed me!

He took out 1cc, and I was at 3. Which I like - I assumed he'd take it all out.

[Banded in KS 0]

Ok, first thing--who is Dr. J? I have never met him either.

Sorry, you got that tight. I know how uncomfortable that can be. I have had the frothing several times and detest it each time. It just seems so strange to see that stuff come out of my body.

I go back and forth on the fill thing. Today, my dinner went down kind of rough...but at lunch I had about 3/4 of a bunless cheeseburger and several fries and felt nothing! Urgh!

[Wheetsin 714]

Dr. J (too lazy to type out names) = Dr. Jurani. He's on their website, but I don't know if he's new or not. I think he mainly does non-WLS surgeries, and assists with RNY. He was actually really curious when I was there, was asking questions, and wanted to stick around and see what happened because it surprised him that relief would be so instant with an unfill. It was cool to see a doctor so interested in what you're experiencing.

[Rockin' Robyn 15]

Hi Girls!!!

I am back from my cruise....WOWOWOWOW!!! It was the best experience of my life. I am already on line looking at when we can go again.

The food was amazing! Even though I couldn't eat as much as I wanted to, I still grazed a lot. With all the tropical drinks etc, I only gained 2 pounds, which I was so happy with.

I'll post more later....I'm trying to download all my pics right now. Hopefully I can post some later.

Angela, I'm so sorry you are so tight. Dr Hoehn gave me only 1/4 of a cc on the last fill. I told him before hand what I wanted and that I wanted to "ease" into it at this stage. He actually made the comment that he was glad I wanted to be conservative. Hmmm.....

I am so glad I had heard your stories of being so tight and associating it with the Humidity. I was able to eat like a horse the first night of the cruise....then the next morning when we landed in Cozumel, I PB'd on coffee. I was sooooo perplexed for a while, then it popped into my head what you had said before about the humidity. I just took it easy and didnt really eat or drink much out on the beach (which was a bummer), but then by later in the evening after being back on the air conditioned boat for while, I was fine.....still tighter, but not ultra restricted like I was outside in the heat.

Hope you all are doing well and having a great new year. I'll post again soon!

Angela-Did anything get mentioned about your gallbladder at Hoehn's office?

[Wheetsin 714]

Yeah, they gave me standing orders for an ultrasound and hidda scan. Haven't called to set up an appt yet. :lost1.5lbs:

It's awesome you enjoyed your cruise so much. We liked ours, and DH wants to go again next year on our 10th. Maybe an Alaskan cruise, followed by a few days at a resort there. I never thought I'd say I want to go to Alaska, but after seeing a girlfriend's pictures/stories from there, I'm hooked.

Get your pics online. :huggie:

[Rockin' Robyn 15]

Holy Moly-those pics I just posted are huge....help Angela

[TracyinKS 7]

great pics!!!!!!!

[Wheetsin 714]

Here you go!

[Wheetsin 714]

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