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[Jules831 0]

Hi my name is Julia, I'm 24 years old. I had Lapband surgery on October 2, 2007. One month prior to surgery I weighed in at 365 lbs. I have tried diets left and right since jr. high. Now six months later I have lost 125 lbs and weigh in at 235 lbs.

The only problems I seem to have are that I have not had a fill, I can only really eat saltine crackers, a smoothie that consists of yogurt, milk, juice, a banana and an egg. On occasion I can get down the middle of a baked potato or mashed potatos. I can drink milk and try to often. cheese, Creamy Peanut Butter, Lettus and most meats do not agree with me very well and most often come up. I am finding that I can't eat mashed potatos, cottage cheese or Jello any more as my stomach no longer likes those. I did try a crispy corn tortilla with Beans, ground beef and cheese on top reciently (very mild mexican taste) and loved it and it stayed down. Although two days later I had the flu again and found some remains from it in my stomach still. I have had the flu 3 times in the past 3 weeks and it feels like the flu and not related to the lapband. So my family doctor called the doctor who did my banding and now I have to go in for a barium (YUCK!) swollow and travel up to see him to see what he says.

I've just been reading a site (can't remember the name of it now) that has all these letters to a Dr. Rutledge trying to see if they can have the lapband removed because of complications and there was some info on there about the number of patients haveing to have the band removed. That does scare me a little because I had never seen anything to that effect during all the research I did before going in for the surgery. If I have to have it removed, I don't know how I'd pay for it, insurance did not cover the original surgery.

Oh! my town reciently started a support group for those of us going through lapband and some of the ladies suggested Gas-X chewables for that constant vomiting at first and any gas. Boy does it work although I have switched to the Gas-X thinstrips as they go down better for me and the pepermint taste sooths a little better.

If anyone has anything that could help me I'd really appriciate any comments or even an email. Thanks!

Jules

[Tater Bug 1]

WOW... well first off, congrats on your weight loss!

As for the rest I dont think that I can be of any help. The only thing that I know (which is not band related) is that at my place of work many people have been sick with the flu seems like for the past 2 months.. they get better then get sick again. Hopefully that is all that going on with you. I wish that I could be of more help to you, but all that I can do is cheer you on and send you my prayers which I will do. Let me know what happens okay?

Thanks for the tip about the Gas X!