Re: Advil and Looser Band?

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Sunday, November 7, 2004, 4:50:19 PM, you wrote:

mac> Today--no Advil--and I'm as tight as I have been.

mac> Just wondered if anyone

mac> else has noticed this?

I take advil on occasion, and don't think it has a thing to do with

what the fickle bitch band is doing. But that's me.

Of course you know that you are advised against taking NSAIDS such as

advil with a band? And you know how to deal with it if you have to?

And have you asked your doc about alternatives to it?

dan

Dan Lester, Boise, ID honu@... www.mylapband.tk

Dr. Ortiz, Tijuana, 4/28/03

323/209/199 Age 61

[Guest guest]

The band can change daily anyway, so I'm not sure the meds caused any

problems.

Any irritation from meds will cause swelling, gastritis, and possible

bleeding and damage to the pouch. and the NSAIDS are esoecially known

to to this to the banded stomach.

Meds should not make you feel looser, though, unless you were

dehydrated before and a bit swollen, then started taking meds with

lots of fluid that decreased your dehydration and loosened you up. .

It's important to know that these things do not change the actual

fill level at all, but they can make the band FEEL looser or tighter

from several possibilities.

IMO, the usual rason is that most of a\us are chronically dehydrayed.

Few of us religiously drink all the fluid we need, and this is

critical to band safety and health. If the mucous membranes around

the band are chronically irritated from dehydration, we are asking

for touble. I out a document in the database a couple dys ago abut

the Importance of Water for a Bandster.

Another variable is always the type of food you are eating. Solid

foods are the only way to test restriction, as you will never feel

restriction with liquids or soft stuff.

the only way to test a restriction exactly two days in a row, is to

eat and drink exactly the same foods and fluids at exactly the same

time and quantity of food, cooked the same way with the same

moisture. almost impossible to control all these variables.

WE just have to accept that fills feel different from day to day, and

even morning to afternoon. the only thing we can do is to learn our

soft stop signs well, and listen after every bite to pick up the

first soft stop sign. You can't depend on ANYthing else to tell you

you need to stop. Some people try to measure foods, but that is only

a general clue. Of the 1/2 - 1 cup of food that is a good portion,

somtimes you'll be able to eat the whole thing and be tempted to est

more (don't!), and other times you will only be able to comfortably

eat a few bites.

Dan will be known foever for his proclamation that " the band is a

fickle bitch!! " SAndy RN

> Has anyone here noticed a correlation between taking Advil (or

another

> ibuprofen medicine) and their band being loose? Yesterday I took

two doses of Advil

> (one was a total of 400 mg, another was 600; I " m prescribed 800mg

at a time

> for pain unrelated to band surgery). Anyway, I noticed I could eat

anything

> (probably) yesterday, but didn't want to push it. I just mean I

wasn't getting

> full from a few bites. I was actually worried that I had a leak.

>

> Today--no Advil--and I'm as tight as I have been. Just wondered if

anyone

> else has noticed this?

>

> makenzie

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 11/7/2004 4:56:27 PM Pacific Standard Time,

honu@... writes:

> And have you asked your doc about alternatives to it?

>

>

Tylenol doesn't work for me as well, and because I have Thalassemia minor, I

can't take aspirin. Course, I just found out recently that I'm not supposed

to have ibuprofen for the same reason--but then another doc said that's

incorrect. Go figure!

mak