Re: Lorraine-back to Jen

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Jen

With experience with come confidence. Maybe you could try

introducing more solid foods by saying okay this week I'm going to

having only solids for lunch and once you're achieved that then move

on to breakfasts etc. The band really only works properly with

solid foods. The liquids and soft runny foods move through the band

quickly and you don't benefit from feeling full and being full.

Maybe a food diary could help you improve the balance of foods and

liquids.

You could mention the pain you're having when you go to see your

surgeon. Sometimes we worry about things that you shouldn't but on

the other hand no one knows your body as well as you and you should

listen to it and heed any signs.

Enjoy your week, my boy will see you Tuesday,

Lorraine

>

> Lorraine,

>

> Yeah I get that about hating hospitals. I hate them too. I get

anxious

> just walking in there to see the surgeon for a fill and he's not

even in the

> actual real hospital part.

>

> I guess with a new surgeon and potentially a new or newly placed

band it

> will be a learning curve again to see what happens and what you

can eat/not

> eat etc.

>

> I think you have every right to be peeved off - I don't know

anyone who does

> everything as gently and well as you for your band and then this

still

> happens.

>

> I hope that the next one is better than the last, lasts a whole

lot longer

> and stops the pain you are having now.

>

>

>

> As for me - I don't really know if I have lost any weight since

the last

> fill but I had hardly lost any since the fill before that which

they didn't

> seem to care about, but I really, really did. 1.5 kilo in a

month is not

> enough when you have as much to lose as I do.

>

> I feel like I haven't lost any this month either but I

rarely " feel " like I

> do, so who knows.

>

>

>

> Apparently I was supposed to be at the dietician on Thursday, so

I could

> have found out - but I wrote it in my diary for next Thursday

(stupid!!!!)

> I don't really want to go anyway to be honest - no real problems

with her -

> just busy and would rather wait and see the Doc & Andi in early

April. I'm

> guessing for another fill.

>

>

>

> I have been trying really hard not to do too many fluids & that is

hard for

> me - partly because I get anxious and weird and scared of food &

everything

> tightens up and sometimes I struggle to eat solids at all - and

partly

> because prior to banding I did 2 years of a mostly fluid diet so

it's a

> habit and is easy for me to slip back into.

>

>

>

> That thing you said about pain between your shoulder blades

worries me some,

> because I have been having a relatively bad pain in my back sort

of between

> my shoulder blades but a little lower & more on the left than

right. I have

> been trying to ignore it and not panic about it (like I usually do

about

> everything) because it's probably nothing - but I am fairly sure

that it has

> some relationship to when I eat. Never mind, I'm sure it's

nothing more

> than bad posture or something stupid like that.

>

>

>

> I hope you can fill the time till your surgery with plenty of

distractions

> so you have less time to get anxious, however as you and I both

know -

> sometimes a good cry is all there is for it :-)

>

>

>

> Luv

>

> Jen

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