New to OH-November 19th surgery date!

Hi everyone! I am new to this website and have found it to be so uplifting! Finally other people to talk to about what I have going on in my life and how I came to decide on Lap Band. My surgery date is 11/19 and would love to hear from others and be added to your friends list and I'd love to add you to mine. I think the thing I am most nervous about is what will happen afterwards and how I will feel as far as my food restrictions go. But, I know that I can handle it. Also, I was reading a post and someone mentioned that there are so many people wanting to get fills at their doctors office and they can't....there are too many people waiting for fills and not enough hours in the day to do them. I would hope that this will not be the case as what is the point of doing all of this if it can't be adjusted?? I will have to ask my doctor about this. Take care and I look forward to making some new buddies to share this experience with. Lisa :-D

Hi Lisa! Welcome to OH and to our November Losers forum. Have you explored the rest of the website yet? there is a TON of really great information to be found... you could spend the next year on here and not see it all. I know I haven't even made a dent in what's on OH to learn. Congratulations on your surgery date. You're a week behind me. Thankfully we'll still be recovering from surgery at Thanksgiving and won't really want to eat anything. Your question about feeling nervous about food restrictions after surgery. Have you met with your nutritionist yet to go over your first couple weeks of menus and food lists? This helped to ease my mind quite a bit once I had a grocery shopping list in front of me and reference material that I could use to make meals when I got home from the hospital. Definitely talk to your doctor about the fill-appointment issue. You also might want to find out if there is more than 1 doctor who can do the fills for you in case he's backed up with other patients. Talk to you soon! Pam