POSTED UNDER Lap Band Reviews
Wow...7 years already?!
UPDATED FROM HappyMommyof2
10 years later
HappyMommyof2January 6, 2016
WORTH IT
I am still thrilled! It has been a long journey but I have found what I was looking for!
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UPDATED FROM HappyMommyof2
7 Years!!!!
HappyMommyof2May 23, 2013
It's been 7 years. I've joined weight watchers, and I'm really trying to loose these last 20 lbs, and I'm gonna do it!!!
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June 17, 2013
I'm considering lap band surgery I am 5'6" and 233 pounds I have a type of back problem genetic, so my spine isn't fused. I recently had back surgery and was told if I didn't loose weight my back surgery would have to be more extensive in the future...scary to say the least . I gained 80 pounds after my fathers death 20 years ago and have gone up and down between 190 to 260, most days I can't look at myself in the mirror...today I got a shot of my reflection/ backside in a large window and thought ,sweet lord is that me I didn't recognize myself....I'm afraid and still think somehow I can make this happen on my own...but I am afraid now I don't want screw and braces in my back....any advice for someone looking into surgery.....
August 28, 2013
I am considering lap band but I have a huge phobia of throwing up! Is it like stomach virus or sour stomach? I don't want to get the band and throw up all of the time! Help!
August 29, 2013
Christina424, it's nothing like a sour stomach or stomach virus. If I eat something that won't fit through my stomach opening then the stomach starts producing large amounts of thick mucous tring to lubricate and help the item through. This mucous starts to build up over the stuck item, the feeling is obvious but not more than a bit uncomfortable. Eventually the mucous gets high enough to trigger a gag reflex. It's fast and painless. Now should you ever actually get a stomach flu, that's when it can get hard. Just as everything that goes into your stomach has to fit through that small opening, so does everything going out!! If you have a sour stomach, my advice is to stick strictly to liquids! Good luck :)
I know this is for the lap-band surgery, but I read the comment from Kirsty and wanted to comment. I am 56 and at 19 yrs old I had stomach stapling. I was 237 lbs at 18. High blood pressure, eating to get full, emotional eating, eating to get warm, eating just because... I spent a month in the hospital w/complications/a hospital strike/ and pneumonia. My stoma swollen shut causing extremely painful bronical spasms. I was released with an extrenal gastric tube and fed myself pureed baby food for 9 weeks. Still everything came back up. The weight poured off me. In 9 weeks I was down 40 lbs. I got down to 136 after a year but it took exercise. Now after 35 years I have semi watched my weight fluctuate from 145 (my most comfortable and healthiest weight) to a scary 201. I caught myself and I walk 3 times a week for an hour a day and eat protein first, a green vegetable and I wait an hour to an hour and a half to drink a glass of milk. I can't eat rice, or pasta and I try to stay away from bread. I would ABSOLUTELY recommend weight loss surgery as a tool. But it is not a cure. Also.important is phsycological guidance. If anyone tells you the way people (men) look at you as a thin person vrs a fat person makes no difference, they are lieing. Many of my friends marriages broke up after they had a different body. Beware...