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| fairysteps@y7mail.com I didn't take mine until I was back onto normal food. I can take them okay now as they just slide down. But the centrum vitamins, I have to cut in half. Not sure if you could cut them and add it to a shake or something. someone will tell you, I just didn't worry about it for that short time. Mary |
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| Hi I have a question for you, how do some of you manage to swallow fish oil tabs they are so big I used to take them before banding but havnt been game since been banded 10 days, thanks in advance. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hi Amber... Congratulations on your surgery date... always a time for a few nerves. As for the opti, I am sorry that I can't help as my surgeon didn't request me to do that side of things. There is a good opti thread above in the sticky threads... might be worth reading and asking for advise there. Best wishes Mel |
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| Megg... I hope you are ok. You need to make contact with your surgeon asap and get this sorted... if you can't get water down you will get very dehydrated and you will end up in hospital. I hope you have gotten some help. Mel |
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| hi amber the first 3-4 days on optifast is hard you feel like a wrung out rag, you have no energy and are cranky as a bear with a sore head but beleive me it gets better after that, just get through those days and the rest is a breeze it will be ok, and you have so much to look forward to after the surgery and thats nothing to worry about either i worried myself sick, i thought my liver wouldnt be small enough as i was naughty eating what i wasnt suppposed to be alot of times and i was fine so everything will be ok all the best deb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| opti is easy as the weight just drops off and you get excited thats its all starting to happen.Try to forget that you are starving. Its only a couple of weeks of your new life!!!! SW 158 DOB 11/8 CW 131.2 Karen |
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| You will get through it because you have already mentally made the decision, now just for the homestretch. I just kept thinking about what the surgeon told me, that if I didn't stay on the liquid diet before the surgery, that my liver wouldn't shrink enough and he would call the surgery off if my liver was not small enough. That scared me enough to stay on the liquids.......I did have one slip up, but once won't hurt. Good luck and welcome to this board. I look forward to following your progress. BTW, I am 4 1/2 months banded. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| meggster2001 If You can't even keep water down, then you must go to your surgeon. it can take a while for the swelling to go down but if you are not taking in fluid you will become dehydrated quite quickly. not to mention your lack of medication, depending on what thats for. I don't know how long since your last fill but its not something you want to delay. good luck Mary |
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| Hi Amber, Congrats on your date for surgery, have you logged onto the November bandits 2009 thread or the December thread, as you haven't mentioned which month. Joining the these threads you will be able to chat with other people who are going through the same feelings as yourself and you can support each other through this stage of your journey. I have been banded now for 6 months and it has been the best decision I have ever made, I so wish I had done this years ago instead of the yo yo dieting and self hatred at not achieving a permanent weight loss. So far I have lost just over 20kgs and am looking forward to seeing the other 20kgs disappear. Best of luck with your journey. Gerry |
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| Hey Amber - Congrats on getting your surgery date. I found the first 4 days of Opti really hard I was hungry and cranky but it did get easier after those initial days. Just keep thinking about your ultimate goal and you will do fine. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hey all.... Getting banded on 23rd really worried about how i will get through the opti stage..... Any advice..... |
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| hunter i use herbalife protein powder, i mix it with milk skim and strawberry quik each day its abotu 20.00 a conatiner and it last a month. hope that helps. to the other lady who cant eat or swallow, my thoughts are you may have a blockage and will have to wait for swelling to go down, can you go to ur local hospital,maybe they can take some fill out. If you feel a blockage try some apple cider vinegar or pineapple juice, mine has been milk lately works a treat.Its not recomended but a gulp of coke and a qick vomit which results from the coke(sorry) works if urgent need, my doc told me to only do this in a dire need of urgency. |
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| Is anyone using protein powder? What brand are you using and how much do you take? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Storminateacup - I have had a fill from another doctor who was not my surgeon and it all went fine. I live in a remote area and have to fly to Darwin to see my surgeon at $600 a pop in airfares plus hotel, car hire and doctors cost that gets a bit expensive! So my surgeon trained a GP in my town he is still learning and warns you of this prior to the fill but he got my port first go. I suppose it depends on the doc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| i am guessing that you have had the surgery and have had a fill, in that case you have too much fill, if you havent had a fill then you have had a slippage, i would not hesitate in going to your doctor to either get some fill removed or to see him about something else deb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hi you seem sensible and I need advice I cant swallow food and keep it down, in fact I cant keep water or tablets down ? |
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| I have a general question: Have any of you had surgery, then moved to another spot and had to find a new doctor? Did you end up getting another banding surgeon or did you find a gp who does fills? Did the new doctor have any problem locating your port since they didn't install it in the first place? Thanks in advance. |
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| Ummmmm, I think wattle is posting to anyone bickering on this forum. I don't think it will offend anyone who is no taking part in it. |
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| wattle, i think this is what causes half the arguments on here is people dont put who they are posting to, so who are you refering to?? not asking this to cause trouble just clarification so it doesnt offend people that dont know you or anyone else on here. in case ur wondering i dont know anyone here personally. |
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| Could you ladies please take your cat fight to another thread. Anyone interested in being banded would be frightened off by the ridiculous, immature and totally not needed comments some of you are posting. You should be ashamed of yourselves. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I apreciated leannes opinion to my post earlier and i feel bad she coped flack for it, we all have views wether they be right or wrong, past or present, we are all on the same journey, we all get angry at what people say if sometng strikes a nerve, I asked the other day about how long people hd been banded and was suprised not many have been banded for years 5+ and feel they can give advice so freely to newbies without relising it is soley their own experince and opinion they dish out, we take it on board, give each persons suggestions a go, some we frown at, some we get mad at because we know it may hurt someone becos it has us, some we thank the site for cos it gets us through another day but we are all individual and each band is its own, becommin a new person can bring the good an bad and ugly out in all of us, writing words is a way of releasing stress and is not nessacerly aimed at the person who posts, please take this into consideration feel what the person may be going through as this is one of the hardest journeys life has givin us. People wether or not... leanne if youve done wrong in the past or not im not here to judge you as long as your polite to me thats all that matters in my eyes. I value everyones opinions and enjoy reading each post. stats 34yrs banded 5yrs ago 169 kilos heaviest weight now 114 (lots of ups and downs) had hiatus hernia with band also also suffers from divaticulitis(extremly painful) |
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| was txs SHHHHH!!! im at work...lol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hi Sis, nice lunch today, we should do it more often x | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| seems to me the more responses twinkle gets the more it feeds her behaviour's of concern if noone replies she will eventurally stop, failing that a straight jacket sounds good. I havent had banter with her but by just reading her post I truly doesnt take much to know its dribble just dont reply, because your bringing yourself to her level. Trish |
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