2yr BOB-versary+ 11yrs post-op RNY

 

She didn't write what you claim.. but good to hear your views on the band.  If it is self induced vomiting... nooooooooooo problemo!  If it is the band, horrors!

What on earth are you talking about?

Congrats on your 2 years! I am not being smart, but if you don't figure out WHY you are throwing up and stopping it you will eventually be trading your band for a new one or having to get it removed from damage to your body/band.

If you are not eating band friendly foods, you should make sure your proteins are moist, I cannot eat bread, I thought I could with my new band, I was out last weekend with hubby at a street fair and made a mistake of only taking a bite of his hotdog with bun and the sliming started in public..YIKES...I had to dive behind a outside trash can and spit out slime...so make sure you are eating band friendly foods and taking pea size bites and I avoid bread, rice, chinese food like the plague in public with my band, if you can't eat moist proteins, you are probably too tight.

We Vets don't all agree on things but we are surely not lying to you about this, I agree with Kate, Pbing should be a mistake of eating to fast or eating something thick too quick, not a constant every day thing, frequent vomiting daily has been the number one reason for band removal; as Dr C said a few years ago, you cannot convince someone with a too tight band to get saline removed until it's too late....Beware and careful.

Edited to add: Just giving you the realities of Band damage it is ugly, it's like someone taking a torch and lighting it your stomach, that PPi's will barely touch, and it will eventually get to the point where you cannot get down any liquids without frothing at the mouth, and stuff coming back up at night when you want to sleep, and reflux at night through your nose and mouth, not a way to live, just wanted to give you an idea what band damage may be like, and it's pretty ugly.

Nan, I'm aware of all of this. When I throw up it's my fault. I am and always have been a volume eater. I can go weeks without getting sick. I don't eat bread an I eat a lot of protein and salad. I have 9cc in my 14cc band. I had a minor .01 fill when I left NYC in march and that was the first I had in 9mos. I am going to NYC next weekend and I have an appt with Kurian. I also have an esopogram every 3-6 mos.

Also, dry chicken that is usually in those salads are very hard for lap bandsters too, if I eat chicken it has to be dark meat, or it has to be very moist. I can eat chicken from those roasters where the chicken is very moist. But I cannot eat grilled or dry chicken breast mixed with a salad, it will send me vomiting too.

I remember with my old band one day I had a luncheon at work with co-workers, and I ordered a salad with grilled chicken that was cut up, and I had about 3 bites of my salad and I had to excuse myself and I threw up for HOURS and Mean HOURS, the chicken got stuck and would not come up, I stayed in the bathroom at work from 1-3 pm that day, it was HORRIBLE, and I missed meetings...yikes, I am giving you an example of how horrible getting food stuck can be, I've had many espisodes like that with my old band, and I do not want to go through that with my new band...lol

As we old time bandsters use to call them band whippings...lol

Also if I eat thick dense chicken at one meal, I cannot eat much at the next meal, so my biggest meal of the day is either lunch or dinner depending on what I eat.

Remember it is never how much fluid is in your band, it's how you feel.

 

I don't know, your ORIGINAL statement sounds a whole lot more than every few months.  Just be very careful.

~~Do I like all the throwing up with the Band - NOT SO MUCH~~

​You clearly didn't vomit this much with your pouch/stoma from bypass but you do with a pouch/stoma from a band.  Doesn't really matter fault here, the vomiting WILL cause esophageal damage.

I realize you are trying very hard here to put the band in a good light, I can appreciate it is working for you.  But regardless of fault you will pay in the end for vomiting.

You had bypass, you regained.  Hey, it happens.  But now you are writing about 'all' the vomiting and claiming wine is your downfall.  On bended knee I am begging you to really think through these issues and be careful.

We don't come here and post personal experience, stats, and studies because it's fun.  Quite frankly, it isn't.  We do it because we care.

For the record, and I will say this one last time. I am NOT too tight.  I can eat 1-2 cups of food, protein and veggies without an issue and NOT throw up. I have some bad eating habits that center around volume and I also eat too fast. When my eyes are bigger than my stomach, I get sick.  Or when I eat too fast, I get sick.  I can go mos without getting sick and then its like 3 days in a row.  I am a wine drinker, I have been for years. I have a glass, sometimes 2,  when I get home from work. I often don't have dinner after.  My doctor, she is aware of my wine meal(s).  She and I agree that no wine would probably result in me being 10lbs lgihter but its something I am OK with.  Plus I am single and I don't have kids and I go out a lot and I drink - so be it.  I don't eat sweets, I don't eat bread, I don't drink soda and I don't graze.  

 

I regainned from the RNY bc my pouch stretched but it also was not made very small.  Dr. Leitman was very conservative in his pouch sizes and everyone I know who had surgery with him (about 6-8 people) all regained half their weight.  Only 1 is super skinny but she had it with him several yrs after me and he made her smaller.

 

~~My doctor, she is aware of my wine meal(s).~~

Your "wine meals" ???  

1-2 glasses of wine each night?  You go out a lot and drink?

Okay, I give up.  Just please take care of yourself.

Go judge someone else.  OK?  If I already had a glass or 2 of wine, and I am NOT hungry, are you saying I should have dinner?  Just bc I haven't had dinner yet?  And there is nothing wrong with a glass or wine of 2 several nights a week, especially red.  Plus, I live in a big city - ie. New York now Philly. We dine out 5-6 nights a week.  We don't eat at home.  That's how city life is.  

 

I skimmed through your blog, I looked at July annually or months close to it.  Eating a pint of ice cream in a sitting and your own claim of alcohol causing your weight regain... suffice it to say, I believe you.

Doesn't change the fact in the LEAST, I do worry about you.  You are a peer, you suffer the same things the rest of us do, you struggle with everything we all do.

That is not me in judgment of you, that is honest to zog me giving a darn.

I merely worry.  That's all.  I am concerned, shoot me.