16th day and gained 4 lbs!!!

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I was banded on Sept 14...the first week or so I lost 5 lbs, then sat

there for a couple of days, then started gaining it back!!! So I told

myself that the scale is my worst enemy, that I would only weigh once

a week from now on (very hard to do by the way), but by this point I

was actually scared of it!!! Well, I started walking and went back on

the clear liquid diet, just like straight out of the hospital. Much

to my discust, I got on the scale this morning and weigh actually 4

pounds more than I did before the band!!! Now I am really down. I

have done everything by the book, yet I'm still being tortured by

that da... scale!!! I am not getting close to my " cycle " as I had a

hysterectomy 9 years ago, it's not water gain, because I take a rx

water pill every day, What's a person to do???

I know I'm supposed to be healing not loosing, but gaining??? this

is unacceptable!!! Miserable in Miramonte...Jeanie 246/250/135

P.S. Would my hrt (hormone replacement thereapy) have anything to do

with it?? and if so, why did I loose 5 pounds at first only to gain

it back? I was taken off oxycodone and put on a patch for pain

(tramadol) which I change every 3 days. I started back on the

Welbutrin after Dr. A pulled me off of it in prep for the surgery.

At this point I am actually crying.