hows everyone feeling?

seem like this chat is slow lately lets liven it up with the current preggos lol

lets Hear ur stories ladies

im 6 months post op and 3 months pregnant lost 15 pounds so far since finding out I'm pregnant 

im so excited to be having a second child

woohoo

ok ladies ur turn😄

Hello everyone!

My name is LaToria! It's been too long since I've touched in and I'd like some advice/support. I will first like to give a little background information about me. I am 27, married with two sons. This is my sixth pregnancy. My lasted loss was at 7 months POST OP and I carried her to twelve weeks. I was told I had a partial molar pregnancy which was NOT related to anything from my GB surgery. I WILL SADLY AND WITH GREAT SHAME, ADMIT I DID NOT FOLLOW DOCTOR'S RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT VITAMINS. Needless to say, I'm very traumatized and will ALWAYS second guess if maybe not taking my vitamins had something to do with the loss of our first daughter. Once DH and I got serious about trying to conceive again, I did speak with my PCP doctor who put me on prenatal vitamins MONTHS in advance. However, upon my first follow up with my GB Surgeon, I was told those vitamins were a complete waste because my body just couldn't absorb them! I'm now EIGHT WEEKS pregnant and worried sick about my poor peanut not having the nutrition it needs to survive and be healthy. 

I know this is A LOT of reading but please someone tel me if they've gone through this or have similar experience(s). I really need love, support, and advice!

I also have PCOS, I was diagnosed at 16 and have a very severe case. I not only never had more than 2 periods a year my entire life, but often go through phases where I gain steadily 1 pound a day for a year strait WHILE dieting. Currently I am gaining at a rate of .75 a pound a day for the last 5 months. I eat protein first, stay away from slider foods, walk no less than 5 miles a day, 7 days a week, make my carbs count with only eating carbs of good nutritional value. So I think what you are saying has merit, there has to be something hormonal going on, because I am rapidly gaining just like I would pre op. My hormones would fluctuate so much since I was 16 that I was 300 lbs every 2 or 3 years and 200 every other 2 or 3 years. I have tried going back to the basics, I am actually on a liquid only diet now, the 5DPT. But the scale keeps climbing! I can predict very very accurately what it will say, I weigh myself every 2 days and every 2 days it is exactly 1.5-2 lbs more. I have been freaking out that the surgery was all for nothing, that I will be over 300 lb again by the end of the year. You have given me a little hope that 6 months from now when my baby is a year that my hormones may balance out and the curse of unjustified rapid weight gain will stop! 

So, learned I was pregnant recently and called my doctor.  I was hoping that the rule about having to have your band unfilled while pregnant had changed since I had my surgery, but it hasn't.  So, I went in and they took all the fluid out.  This is a hard thing for me as I would imagine it is for other folks in my situation.  To not have restriction after 4 years is soo strange.  I am now feeling hungry more often and I am trying to figure out what is normal.  Am I feeling hungry because I am pregnant and need to eat more or am I hungry because my band is loose and its not holding food like it used to?

Natalie

Hello,

I'm 28 weeks and going on 3 years post VGS and just the last couple of days I've noticed I'm having a hard time eating or even consuming liquid. Lots of feelings of restriction and fullness. I continue to take my Nexium once daily, however I have had an increase in indigestion and burping type feelings with just smalls sips. I'm getting fuller than normal, it reminds me of those first few days post op from VGS. Anyone else have a high carrying baby that maybe pushing on your already small tummy and how did you deal with it??