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Hey everyone - i just wanted to share that i got banded yesterday. Im surprisingly not that sore, its a little tender- but pain that i can put up with. i only had 2 needles since the op and haven't touch the tablets they sent home with me!

YAY for the rest of my life - im so excited:) :unsure:

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Hey Meg's,

I had my band done on Tuesday 20th and like you have had very minimal pain. I did however get the worst of raging headaches that lingered till yesterday, residual gasses from the anesthetic they tell me.

I am surprised at how itchy my tummy is tho! I guess it means I am healing, I never had stitches! just steri strips..

anyway we are off on an exciting journey for the better part of our lives

cheers

Linda

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Well done I was also banded this week the 19th Oct in Perth and had pain below the main cut and now i have bad bad wind with anything i eat.... I have been allowed anything that will fit through a straw.

Wind is annoying and not very social at all..

I already have lost 2.7kg so i hope it keeps falling off.

Good luck and hope to follow your progress

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I was banded by Dr Greenslade in Brisbane on the 21/10/09. Had the usual side effect , shoulder pain, wind etc, but my god its already worth it.

Totally weird think is my husband said my snoring has just completely stopped and I was BAD!!! Not sure why that has happened...any ideas, anyone

That morhine is some GRRREATT stuff too. My kids think mummmy was very funny.

Good luck everyone!!

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I was banded by Dr Greenslade in Brisbane on the 21/10/09. Had the usual side effect , shoulder pain, wind etc, but my god its already worth it.

Totally weird think is my husband said my snoring has just completely stopped and I was BAD!!! Not sure why that has happened...any ideas, anyone

That morhine is some GRRREATT stuff too. My kids think mummmy was very funny.

Good luck everyone!!

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wow! this is soooo weird because for years my husband has insisted that we have our noisy old air-conditioner running all night on fan just to drown out the noise of my snoring...the last two nights! NO AIRCON...and he reckons Im not snoring either...this alone is a bonus as it has cause many a tiff in my household. LOL

it's a week tomorrow...I am starting the mushy stage...WooHoo... vitamised chicken and vegs...Yum! I was so sick of liquid.

Linda

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Linny,

I was told liquid for 2 weeks. Why do you get food while I'm sucking Tomato Soup through a straw. No fair!!!:cursing:

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different dietitian I guess, My food is still almost liquid, but it is not just Soups. I can vitimize anything low fat that I like and thin it down with either stock or low fat milk.

it is not really different to the liquid but much tastier

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Hey Meg's,

I had my band done on Tuesday 20th and like you have had very minimal pain. I did however get the worst of raging headaches that lingered till yesterday, residual gasses from the anesthetic they tell me.

I am surprised at how itchy my tummy is tho! I guess it means I am healing, I never had stitches! just steri strips..

anyway we are off on an exciting journey for the better part of our lives

cheers

Linda

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Oh i had the worst headache yesterday until now. I think it went away with more Water i drank. I called the office to tell them that i have a headache and i am nauseous they said to wait to take something bc it is just the anesthesia wearing off.

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My fiance was banded with me and he used to be a massive snorer, really unbearable at times but now - all silent in the bedroom! YAY! He occassionally still snores when he's had a few beers but I can deal with occassional snoring!

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Hiya

I'm a newbie too. Banded on Tuesday (27 Oct). So far, 6.5kg down, which of course includes the two weeks prep on Optifast. I am struggling with shoulder pain more than anything else, and the most amazing amount of wind - I could single handedly get a yacht all the way round Australia with this wind! It is coming out of both ends - although I had been warned that burping might be difficult after banding, I'm certainly not finding that! I am delighted that my mind hunger / tastebud hunger is pretty much being kept at bay, although on my first day I did drink my liquid a little bit too fast whcih caused some discomfort. Not used to sipping - more used to quaffing and guzzling.....!

Anyway, I am excited by this journey I will be travelling on, and intend that my next half century will be fitter, healthier and happier than the last half century.

Good luck to all of you folk, and to those of you that are hesitating because it is a big decision, I say this - I decided it was better to make the big decision and be alive rather than procrastinate and be dead - which is where I was headed as a morbidly obese middle aged woman.....

Cheers

Scrunchy:thumbup:

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I was banded on 29th October. Not much pain except for the wind pain. On the liquids so long as they go up a straw. Feeling good.

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