3 days post surg - Banding feeling tighter! Help!

[Desdemona 48]

Thanks StLouisGal! I'm feeling a lot better just understanding why I feel the way I'm feeling and knowing that it's normal and OK! I was really worried the other night-----afriad something was wrong. Now I have wool socks on underneath leather sole sock slippers and still really cold. The only thing that helps is a hot pack under a blanket. I'm also putting a warm pack across my back which feels nice.

[Desdemona 48]

My throat still feels that way but it's getting better. They have to stick a tube down your throat. I didn't have diareah but certainly ---- shall we say----liquid in is liquid out. And it was with a lot of gas/bloating so I felt pretty darn bad. They said to get in about 64 oz and the first/2nd day of that was just plain terrible.

One thing I have really noticed on this board is a vast diff in post-op stage diet. I have talked w/my MD about this. He is quite conservative about it. I'm only taking Clear Liquids and I will do that for 2 wks before moving to a conservative soft diet. He says --there are other ways of doing it that are also fine. It's just that a conservative diet will produce the fastest weight loss which is what I'm after----at least for the first few months. I am a researcher and also read all the medical studies that have been published in the last 5 years on gastric banding. I'm staying as conservative as I can on my diet because I want to do all that I can to avoid complications. I think Tomato juice is really a nice idea providing it doesn't make you feel sick. I have read that it works very well for some and not for others. Try it.

[Gordon C 0]

Hi Kelda

It sounds like you need to get a bit of nourishment into your system now. I think some Tomato Soup would help - I had pretty similar symptoms and they all eased after some Soup. I figure that this might be my bodies new way of saying it's hungry. I think that my hunger signals might have changed after the banding. Try to push yourself to take some nutrition on board - its a hard enough time to get through without starving yourself too.

Gordon