hihiknez

Thank you. I will! I guess I was not prepared for this hell period. I am getting through it and beleive me I have been getting my exercise! This 80 year old wonderful lady got evicted and had really no one to help her move out -she has an unbeleivable amount of stuff! So, other than the really heavy items ( i had a guy help us with that stuff) I have been helping her for the past week to move her stuff to storage and her new room she is renting. She weighs 98 pounds! And she is so spunky! Bless her heart! She is so cute! Lots of work and well worth it! I feel so much better knowing she is settled now. Anyway, I appreciate your support more than I can tell you!

hihiknez

Josephine, I want to let you know that I have been soo busy this past week helping a lady move-she really needed my help and so I havent been on here much and I was thinking of you- how are you? Is everything going well since your surgery? Also, I was wondering...what was it that went wrong for you with the lapband you had before? Anyway, I hope you are doing well. Thank you for your support! Much appreciated!

Josephine

First, I never got any aftercare cause the practise were jerks and finally went bankrupt. After paying out of pocket to have another doctor do a couple fills, I moved and couldn't find a doctor. I wasn't tight at all and just decided to try my best to do it myself. After about 14-15 months, my body just started being in incredible amounts of pain. It took years before I realized it was the band. I was thinking that my body rejected it. It just didn't like the foreign object being in there. I got on the waiting list to have RNY (later changed to the sleeve) and after 16 months of waiting, I got it. I suffered in a lot of pain for nearly 4 years. During surgery to do the sleeve and remove the band, they really fought with the port but they couldn't get it off my stomach. They didn't want to cut thru the stomach to get it off and risk it, so they left it there. It sucks that the port ended up sticking to my stomach tissue tho. Some of my pain is gone, some of it is still here. I'm just doing my best and hope that my body can learn to live with the port still inside of me. It's just the risks you take when you walk around with a piece of plastic inside of you. Never know what your body will do or how it will react I guess. The thing is, during the time where I had no aftercare, I did keep trying to get aftercare, but even the 2 MRIs I had didn't show it was stuck to the stomach tissue. I don't try to deter people who want the lapband, but I just hope that they read my story and remember it in case they start to feel unexplained pain in their body, even if it's not in the stomach! Mine started in my legs which is why no one ever assumed it was the band.

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Josephine

Oh yeah, since the surgery I'm doing okay. I'm able to eat fairly normal, just really small portions. My legs hurt and I'm dealing with some acid reflux issues but that's relatively common after the sleeve. The shaking and nervous system pain stopped within a week after surgery tho! *cheers* Feeling pretty good. I've been exercising since 1 week out, but really upped the intensity today. Did 33 min of a workout tape. Gonna do the other 30 later. Ready to kick some ass!

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hihiknez

Wow! In your legs! Did they ever figure out why it was in your legs?? My doctor has moved my first fill date to 11/5 instead of 11/11. Yay!!!
I was really not aware of how little (if any at all) restriction there would be during this bandster hell period! I feel like I have wounds on my tummy for no reason. I have to feel my port to convince myself there is something in there! So, obviously I can't wait for the first fill! I am nervous though that I still won't feel restriction enough. I don't understand how if you did get fills why didn't you ever feel the restriction? Anyhow, I am very glad to hear you are doing well now. You deserve it more than anyone I know!