what is the recovery time on the lap band surgery. What is the diet restriction?
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 at
6:35 am
Liz Wiz asked:
Do you honestly not fell hungry anymore or just sick to your stomach?
Do you honestly not fell hungry anymore or just sick to your stomach?
Tagged with: Lap Band Surgery • Recovery Time • Restriction
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My mom recovered within one week, although the doctors told her it could be up to three weeks. The diet is restricted according to how full the band actually is, and this is controlled by what you and your doctor decided is right for you. You do still feel hungry, but will relearn what it feels like to be full. If your band is filled pretty tightly you might have a hard time eating breads and meats, but this can be easily reversed as the band is filled and unfilled at a regular checkup and there isn’t a recovery period for a band fill. Sometimes if you get too ambitious and try to eat while you are too full, it will cause you to get sick, but you will not do this more than once, because you will re learn when you are full.
Good luck, I think this is an excellent choice for gradual, but dramatic weight-loss that can change your life forever. Plus it is 100% reversable once you feel you can maintain a healthy weight or you can have it forever if you feel you need help restricting your food intake.
Weight loss surgery-like lap band surgery have become very common and very safe now. My cousin got her Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery in India. She has lost more than 65 lbs in 5 months and is very happy with the results. The price for obesity surgery is very less in India. My cousin just paid 25% of the cost she was quoted in America. She got her surgery from a company called Forerunners Healthcare.
Forerunners Healthcare is very famous in India. I read a lot about them in the Newspapers and magazines. I have read a lot of their patient stories also. They arrange financing for USA, Canadian, UK and other international patients who plan to have surgery abroad for low cost, as bariatric surgery and weight loss surgery is not covered by insurance. They also have photos pasted of their International patients. You can checkout their website. There are huge cost savings. As a doctor I personally believe that your Obesity surgery can be easily handled in India, as the quality of healthcare available In India is simply best in the world. The surgeons are USA/UK trained and facilities are 5 star.
Hope this helps.
I had lap band 4-16-08 and I am down 40 pounds and four sizes. I feel great. I went into the hospital at 7:30 a.m. and had the surgery around 10:30a.m., in recovery room 11:25a.m. (have to stay one hour) went to my room at 12:30p.m had fluids, (protein fluids) to make sure band was secure, was at home by 4:15p.m. I could have left at 2 but couldn’t go to bathroom, hehe. I really wasn’t tired and I wasn’t in any pain that wasn’t tolerable, no pain medications were ever filled. I was told I would probably have a headache
the next day due to the anesthetic and that I could crush up two extra strength tylenols and that is what I did and it went away. I could drive the next day (no narcotic pain medication) but I was just extremely tired and stayed home and the next day I was going to the grocery store and I have been on the go ever since. My PCP’s nurse had the surgery done on a Friday and she returned back to work on the following Monday. Everyone’s body is different and my mine was made up to do this and I was ready and everything has been good.
The diet restriction is Lowfat, carbs, and grilled, baked, boiled, or broiled meats. I eat between 800-900 (sometimes more) calories a day. You are supposed to have 70-80 grams of Protein a day, 100 grams of carbohydrates a day and 25 grams of fat a day and at least 64 ounces of fluids a day.
My surgeon told me that it might take 3-5 fills to get your band adjusted the way your body needs it. I have had two fills and it is working right now.
Yes, you do feel hungry. If you try and eat and your stomach is full (in my case) it won’t go down. If you do overeat, you will most definately won’t do it again. My surgeon told me that when you feel hungry, you are probably not hungry, that it is head hunger and you will learn the difference as time goes by.
If you eat stuff that your stomach doesn’t want, you learn you won’t do that again either. I can’t eat rice, white bread and some pasta (I have learned that I can survive without them)
Good Luck, just to let you know that I would do this again in a heartbeat, but SOONER….