Post Surgery 18 mos plus.......
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Edie
You don't have to have a lump to have breast cancer!
Inflammatory Breast Cancer
www.ibcresearch.org
Oh gosh, no - I just meant how nice it is that we CAN talk about things without the dangers of being thought negative!!
Thanks for the explanation! Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
To answer your questions, in the beginning malabsorption is for everything, protein, calories, vitamins....., but our lovely bodies start to adapt around the 18 month mark (they actually call the first 18 months the 'honeymoon' period) and our ability to absorb every calorie comes back :(, but not our ability to absorb vitamins and nutrients, that we will always have to work on.
As far as consumption, we can stretch our pouches, just like everyone has/had the capability to stretch their stomachs, supposedly it's harder to do so but possible, just ask my hubby, he did. One of the downfalls for our new anatomy is we no longer have a pyloric valve, it's the valve that closes the stomach so it can break down food prior to releasing it into the small intestine for nutritional absorption. If we eat soft foods, or what we call slider foods, they go right on through, we don't feel full or get satiety from it, but we absorbed every calorie, that's why it's so easy to regain after a couple of years.
HTH,
Edie
You don't have to have a lump to have breast cancer!
Inflammatory Breast Cancer
www.ibcresearch.org
Edie
You don't have to have a lump to have breast cancer!
Inflammatory Breast Cancer
www.ibcresearch.org
So, Edie, on our nice new board where you are not going to think I am being negative about your surgery....
if most of you stop malabsorbing after a few years, do you still have restricted amounts you can phsyically eat, but now you absorb all of it? So a bit like we bandsters are? Smaller intake but our bodies use everything we eat? So do we end up in the same sort of place?
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
Enjoy your shopping spree, what nice kids you have!
Edie
You don't have to have a lump to have breast cancer!
Inflammatory Breast Cancer
www.ibcresearch.org
Of course I wanted to eat when I'm not hungry.... I 'm just going to keep busy some how doing something else.
CC
I posted on the Band Grads board - one person has come across so far! Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
My basic sense of this is that we should try to invite friends here who you think might also enjoy this type of board. I am sure that it will settle in and we will find the right mix of folks.
240/140/138
