#lapband

[ravikasblog]

    LAP-BAND REMOVAL

Lap Band removal surgery is a procedure to take out the adjustable gastric band that was placed around the upper part of the stomach to treat obesity. The Lap Band (or gastric band) limits the amount of food that can be eaten, helping patients feel full faster. However, in some cases, the band may need to be removed due to complications, failure to lose weight or patient preference.

Why Does the Need for Lap Band Removal Occur?

There are several reasons why Lap Band removal may be necessary:

Slippage or Erosion: The band may slip out of its correct position, or in some cases, erode into the stomach, leading to pain, nausea, vomiting, and infection.

Failure to Lose Weight: Some patients may not achieve the expected weight loss or may even regain weight over time.

Severe Acid Reflux: The band can sometimes cause or worsen acid reflux, making it difficult for patients to eat or sleep comfortably.

Infections or Complications: Infections, intolerance, or inflammation at the band site can also necessitate removal.

How Can We Protect Against Obesity-Related Issues?

Preventing obesity and, by extension, the need for interventions like Lap Band surgery requires a combination of healthy lifestyle choices. Some key practices include:

Balanced Diet: Focus on a diet rich in whole foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains while minimizing processed and sugary foods.

Regular Exercise: Incorporating physical activity, such as walking, swimming, cycling, or strength training, can help maintain a healthy weight.

Mindful Eating: Avoid overeating by eating slowly, controlling portion sizes, and recognizing feelings of fullness.

Stress Management: Emotional eating often contributes to weight gain. Practicing mindfulness, meditation, or other relaxation techniques can help manage stress effectively.

Regular Checkups: Regular visits to a healthcare provider can help detect and manage weight-related issues before they escalate.

Precautions and Lifestyle Modifications

After bariatric surgery or Lap Band placement, certain precautions can help prevent complications and reduce the need for removal:

Follow Dietary Guidelines: Patients should follow the dietary recommendations provided by their healthcare team. This includes eating small portions, chewing thoroughly, and avoiding high-fat or sugary foods.

Regular Follow-ups: Patients must adhere to scheduled follow-up appointments to monitor their progress and ensure the band is functioning correctly.

Hydration: Drinking enough water is crucial, but it’s advised to avoid drinking during meals to prevent discomfort.

Recognize Warning Signs: Any symptoms like severe nausea, vomiting, or chest pain should be reported immediately, as they could indicate a problem with the band.

Treatment and Alternatives

If Lap Band removal becomes necessary, there are various treatment options available to maintain weight loss:

Revisional Bariatric Surgery: After Lap Band removal, some patients may opt for alternative bariatric surgeries like gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy, which have higher long-term success rates in maintaining weight loss.

Lifestyle Adjustments: For patients who choose not to undergo another surgical procedure, working closely with a dietitian and incorporating exercise into daily life can help control weight.

Medications: In some cases, weight-loss medications may be prescribed to help manage appetite and reduce calorie intake.

Lap Band removal surgery is typically safe and provides relief from complications associated with the band, though it’s essential to work closely with healthcare professionals to determine the best course of action for ongoing weight management.

This treatment can be done by the specialized doctors at ABSOLUTE SURGICAL SPECIALISTS (https://www.absolutesurg.com/surgery-specialities-fl/)

[cyborgbelly]

So, it turns out that periodic maintenance on your cybernetic parts is important.

The good news: no pouch, placement good, metabolic panel fine (not quite good), no leakage.

The bad: Regained about 50% of total loss. A total drain+refill has the effects of a moderate top-up. Going up from there was a mistake and I got to experience my first acute overtightened symptoms. Luckily, they could take me on an emergency basis 23 hours later and drain me back down to my exact old volume (where I'd held almost all my loss for 4 yrs and then slowly-slowly crept up until start of the year when I put back about a third of my loss since Jan 1).

Where we are: good level of restriction, feeling good, practice is a leader in synergistic use of surgery and GLP-1 agonists, going to discuss that at followup start of next month.

[happydayheather]

14 years of work to be Today's Heather...gotta love Fat Heather (this is not Pregnant Heather) she messes with my happy day grooves on self-care, healthyeating, and self discipline. #overeating #bingeeating #obesity #bulimiarecovery #lapband #substitution #alcoholic #recoveryispossible #codavailable #divorce #newcollection #today (at Denver, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnRD8SmudUL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mdbariatrics]

Are you considering weight loss surgery but unsure which option is right? Explore the pros and cons of gastric sleeve and Lap-Band surgery, two popular bariatric procedures. Discover the differences in cost, risks, benefits, and long-term outcomes to help you make an informed decision. Read on to learn which procedure may be the better choice for your weight loss journey.

[awheckery]

it's time for the 72-hour after action report!

this was a deeply Weird experience. unlike other times wherein I've gotten vaccines and/or boosters, the only thing that happened in the first twelve hours was that my arms hurt and I was very tired. they hurt a LOT, but by the twelve hour mark and my second bedtime, I genuinely thought I'd gotten off basically scott-free from a vaccine reaction.

and then I hit 1 am, and the 15 hour mark.

I woke up freezing, feverish, desperately thirsty and too weak to reach for the water bottle on my bedside table. my entire body felt bruised, and I was wracked with chills. I didn't have the strength to reach for my water or my phone for four excruciating hours. I couldn't get out of bed for three hours after that.

I have no idea why it took so long for my immune system to notice what I'd done to it. I'm blaming my immunosuppressant.

I ate ibuprofen like skittles on saturday, but any time it started to wear off the fever and the body aches revved up again.

yesterday, I was able to go to the store to buy juice, but it flattened me.

it's monday now. I'm still running an intermittent low-grade fever, I'm still tired and my bones still hurt, but that's just business as usual with an autoimmune disease. unless I have a dramatic relapse, I'll be going back to work tonight.

now. would I recommend anyone else do this?

no. absolutely not. maybe it'd be less unpleasant for someone without immune system issues (or a puppy, I can't pretend Nola's insistence on stepping on all my tender spots wasn't a contributing factor), but this experience genuinely sucked.

did I learn anything from this experience?

NOPE.

I have a bad time with vaccines, no matter how many I get at a time, and even tho my brain and memory got cooked by the aforementioned autoimmune disease, this is nowhere near the most painful thing I remember doing to myself.

I will probably end up doing this to myself again.

never let it said I'm not an overachiever

[aweightyissue]

On Weight Loss and Morality

Conversations around weight and weight loss have always been contentious.

The oft repeated mantra of weight loss has been “there is no silver bullet.”

It’s a jeering remark meant to chide dieters for trying anything beyond eating skinless chicken breast and 20 hours a week working out.

If you want to lose weight you have to pay the penance for every excess pound. You have to earn it.

Their smug satisfaction of watching weight loss aids fail is salt in the wound. They snickered at limitations and failure of Amphetamines, PhenFen, Ephedrine, Orlistat, LapBands, and Gastric Bypass.

See? You can’t cheat your way out. You did this to yourself, now you must suffer the consequences.

An anti weight loss movement emerged in opposition to this mentality. Body positivity is a healthy response to diet culture; making the radical assertion that existing in your body, the way it is, without trying to change, is not only okay, it’s a good thing.

Love your body and focus on being healthy. Your weight is not your worth. This cannot be said enough. Your worth in this world is not related to how your body looks.

When around came GLP-1 medications, the reactions have been fascinating.

The drugs themselves are remarkably effective, and instead of targeting the weight, they correct the underlying metabolic problem. They’ve been on the market for years and are generally known to be safe.

The ire toward them, is in some ways unsurprising.

No! You can’t do it the easy way! You have to work at it!

You’re stealing them from the deserving- the diabetics. Ironically, the same people they blame for their own illness.

The body positivity crowd response is fascinating as well. Taking the drugs is a betrayal. You shouldn’t want to change your body. You’re giving into diet culture. You shouldn’t want to fit conventional beauty standards.

The response has been negative from both sides. People feel entitled to police the bodies and choices you make about your body.

Both of these reactions are moral judgments. You have to pay for your sins. Either for gluttony or vanity.

The thing is, there should be no judgement at all.

Weight loss requires a lot of mental energy. You have to commit your mental and physical energy to it. There are a million reasons why someone can’t or doesn’t want to do that. And that’s okay. There is no reason why you should feel obligated to.

However, ignoring the very real disabling effects of obesity is also a kind of denial of humanity. It’s not anyone’s business, and to condemn someone for trying to prevent or correct the effects is kind of cruelty all its own.

There’s no reason someone should have to justify their desire to change their bodies or their efforts to do so.

Try to love your body, regardless of its size, but it’s okay if you want to lose weight and you don’t have to justify your reasons or your decision to use medication to do it.

Everyone else, support people if they choose to change their bodies as well as when they choose not to. It’s not your decision, your business or your place to judge them.

We, the body positivity advocates don’t criticize trans people for changing their bodies because they’re unhappy with the way it looks. We don’t shame people with disfiguring congenital defects who choose to have corrective surgery; even when it poses no health risk. We understand the very real effects of social stigma, and wouldn’t criticize them for avoiding it.

You’re punishing people trying to lose weight for the sins of vanity and envy.

The other assholes, you wouldn’t tell a cancer patient “there’s no silver bullet” or snicker when an experimental or risky treatment fails. You don’t tell people with high blood pressure or high cholesterol that taking medicine is “taking the easy way out.” You know it’s cruel, you simply want to punish people for the sins of gluttony and sloth.

All I’m saying is - leave the people taking weight loss meds alone.

Weight is not a moral issue.

Weight is not a moral issue.

Weight is not a moral issue.

Weight is not a moral issue.

Weight is not a moral issue.

[fever-dreamer97]

Tour Guide!Bakugo

Izuku and Todoroki, walking up to the door:

Bakugo, stops Izuku: No food.

Izuku: I don’t have any food.

Bakugo: I smell it.

Todoroki, smells:…Cheetos.

Izuku: Okay, fine. It’s just a snack…and a bag of fruit punch. But I promise you, I won’t spill it.

Bakugo: Rules are: no food, drinks, smoking…Flash pictures. No loud noises, hand lotions, tattoos with wolves-

Todoroki: Dang.

Bakugo: No spaced-out faces, lapbands, and bodily fluids.

Izuku, reaches into his pocket: Okay, I’ll get rid of the Cheetos.

Bakugo, smirks: I already disposed of them.

Izuku, freaked out and feels his pockets:…Holy crap.

[stevieweevie71]

#wegood 👍🏽👌🏽💪🏽

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRnFusEN/

@anthonyanderson If you seen a person fat their entire life and all of a sudden they lose weight, they're not going to look right to you anyway. Comparing myself to Anthony Anderson. I know y'all were talking about me too 🙄😂‼️ #AnthonyAnderson #stevieweevie #stevieweevie71 #blackish #abc #disney #weightloss #loseweight #diabetes #weightlosstips #weightlossjourney #weightlossjournal #loseweight #detox #detoxtea #weightloss #weightlossurgery #bariatric #bariatricsurgery #lapband #gastricsleeve #gastricbypass #gastricbypasssurgery #gym #healthandwellness #fitness #gymrat #diet #exercise #baltimore #Type2diabetes #bhm #bighandsomeman #bighandsomemen #bigman #bigmen #bigdudes #bigdude #bbm #thickdudes #thickdude #thickmen #thickman #heavyset #bbw #bbws #biggirls #lizzo

[marie1-kersaint]

K1.0 yanked mom’s picture away

https://www.facebook.com/share/JAKs37VGzkXzWViG/?mibextid=WC7FNe (https://www.facebook.com/share/JAKs37VGzkXzWViG/?mibextid=WC7FNe)

Sent from my iPhone

Even roaches 🪳 little ants 🐜 don't stand still and be bullied 🐂, 🦵 away and killed WITHOUT TRYING

GOD PUT THAT desperate survival mode inside us

A live dog is better than a dead lion 🦁

GOOD JOB 👏 ON SENDING K1.0, nice concise to the point respectful (by yanking MOM’s picture out and telling me she doesn’t like that and don’t put it back out) Possibly The first time in years she'd ever talked to me. You say hello 👋 no one hears. The F words almost always

https://kjbo.org/Matthew-22-15/ (https://kjbo.org/Matthew-22-15/)

Please 🙏 if someone from the school text me or sent me a note that Mom’s picture outside may hurt K1.0   or her grades. i will not take it out anymore.   While cleaning 🧼 Mom's room one day she'd gone to chiropractor, i noticed and thought k1.0 loves mirrors BUT WHERE TO PLACE IT?

BUT last Wednesday or Tuesday i thought near tv 📺 by front door and i picked it up and it was this latest battle in this war.

I DON’T TRUST YOU‼️

it could be another power 💪 play like the rehearsal Thursday 031424 8:43 WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO ME even if one of them assaults and i defend myself

Or chiding me for glittering the place NOW HOPEFULLY INSTEAD OF LATE ⏰ FOOD or bishop pastor serge jerome had a more important funeral✝️the storm✝️business ✝️Easter and Christmas 🎅 are the biggest draw 💰

They can complain about glitter on their clothes

2014 “well, she gave you a place to stay” Saturday “well it’s been 9 years,  GO”

Which scares me 😱 to no end when feeds 🆎 how a guy kept slipping his brother's pregnant girlfriend abortion pills 💊 until the baby died and "DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO KILL SOMEONE"

WHICH OF THE 3 CHIPMUNKS WILL GET A BETTER "head" bad words. galore

The list goes on and the bad words and i know that i am likely to call the regulations KGB

Can't @PBCSHERRIF or @FBI @FCC can regulate YouTube, TikTok feeds, contents, age

@highlightPBSO - Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office

FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBI

Federal Communications help us investigate what our kids are watching

Like i said i am exposed here, my food, my water they are of great size and many. That kind of stress wears the heart out.

To be 🆙 watching people whose not in your corner 👀 @4u

Yesterday 1:37 am lights, doors opened,closed

i don’t know who coached K3.0 to sniff and sniff and sitting close to me sniffing UNTIL afternoon the cure come and sniffing stopped and kicking kersaint out did not work. (i briefly passed by library 📚 Planet Fitness 💪

i am impervious to her sniffing now. i have been played too long

One Friday i kept going to car changing skirts because the top that i changed into i think was 1 of K2.0 's old Tshirts

My heart was breaking, and i knew i took a shower the morning

When i came in after Mom’s October Hospital @wellingtonRegionalmedicalCenter 🏥 stay, i WAS AMAZING 1 of GINA’s kids showed feelings. i said ‘you’re giving me a big head’

“'Anti' kersaint is here” i prefer just Kersaint🙏

It turned out you wanted me to go against my beliefs. I WANTED MOM TO GO TO PLANETFITNESS.com 🌎 💪. TO TRY TO DO THINGS FOR HERSELF. I DON’T WANT HER IN BED UNTIL 1 or 3 PM

i don’t want DOROTHY TO COME TO @WELLIMGTONREGIONALMEMORIALCENTER

Wellington Fl to clean 🧼 🧽 mom up

i set up doctors appointments and rides BUT THEY WERE CANCELLED

"MOM HAS PRIVATE CAR"

i want Mom to drive in salem community church of God in their vans 🚐 so she can find newly come Haitian to talk to

Sent from my iPhone ���

In PSL jeeringly "YEAH🙄YOU HAVE SOMETHINGTO LIVE FOR"

"SUZIE MADE A BIG MISTAKE USING THAT LAPBAND"

Yes, every good move is full of regrets, and possible infections and lots of other meds BUT she knew how she felt and the cost and losses BUT SHE LIKED AND WAS COMFORTABLE WITH THAT BODY

SUZIE just has to find a safer, better alternative (after all these years there must be something safer, fewer side effects)

i believe this verse even before i read it

https://kjbo.org/Ecclesiastes-9-4/ (https://kjbo.org/Ecclesiastes-9-4/)

Since DOROTHY and KATHY are associated with PBC schools 🏫 & programs, if you send me text or email stating remembering her grandmother may "hurt her school work" and she goes to church ⛪️ with her mom until at least the first day of summer 2024... OFF COURSE I WILL GET RID OF MOM's PICTURE LIKE YOU WANT IT

i thought of keeping it until the🆕 owner, realtor or sheriff threatening fines that i cannot pay 💰 or the neighbors complain (not being laminat

ed 😢it looks shabby, messy, and ugly ) YOU TOOK CARE OF MOM in life and THROUGH DEATH. i cannot cry for #MICHAELJACKSON

#SACHATCHADSTEALTHMACHVASHTIMOSEYSACHATCHAD

#MARIEELIARINTUSSDEMOSTHENES who’s going to MEANINGFULLY comfort me and make me stop 🛑 crying 😭 and not go 👎 into depression (forgetting that a live dog is better than a dead lion 🦁) then forget to just keep going keep fighting

i cannot have “a shrine” (it might become idolatrous) BUT i don't want to forget her too like LINDA

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[dratefahmed1]

100 questions and answers about bariatric surgery book by dratef ahmed #shorts 36#surgery #bariatric

BariatricSurgery #shorts #WeightLossSurgery #ObesitySurgery #GastricBypass #LapBand #SleeveGastrectomy … source

[losingsleepandweight]

One thing I did not anticipate about this weight loss journey is how many people have, on the tail end of me saying I'm working out, asked me if I thought about lapband/gastric bypass/whatever else there is.

Why is this apart of the conversation?

Losing weight is just a byproduct.

I'm trying to:

Fall in love with myself again

Create a better relationship with food

Unlearn what foods I think I "deserve"

Give myself more energy

Be able to walk with friends and not be winded/throw up while I do so.

Learn how much my body can do when given the right tools.

And surgery is not in any of these. So can we please change the conversation?

This isn't me knocking anyone who has had it. I know you have to put in alot of work. I fully understand.

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[myfitnessblog0086]

Post workout options:

Some of the more advanced post workout options include BCAA, Muscle Builder, creatine, and other Amino Acids. As always, there is the nitrous oxide or GHOST PUMP. What other things can you add? I personally added Glycine for muscle repair and recovery. Lycine for athletic performance. Follic Acid for new cell growth and management. Chlorella and Spirulina for athletic performance as well.

Even some protein powders contain these things. Many greens powders contain many common greens such as Wheat Grass, Chlorella and Spirulina.

Right now I am using BCAA and Pump. Sometimes both together as a pre and post workout drink.

Remember that everyone is different, and everyone reacts to things differently. Try new things and find what works. Again, everyone’s exercise experience and journey is unique. No one takes the same stuff. Nobody looses weight at the same pace.

Some of us cut out sugars. Some of us embrace sugar free. Some of us use stevia. Some of us avoid bananas. Some of us cut out dairy. Some us use the Lapband.

Personally? I cut out alcohol, junk foods, breads, and sugars.

I am going to share my recipe for a Robust Italian Tomato Soup.

I use vegetable stock. You can use Chicken, Turkey or Beef. (Beef for the MOST Robust experience) One Chicken or Beef bouillon cube does the job too. Ramen Noodles in a pinch.

You can serve it spicy or not. The spicy version is a Mexican/Italian Fusion soup. (Italian fuses really well with Mexican and Chinese. Dunno why.)

1 Cup Chopped Sweet Vidalia Onions

2 Cup Low Sodium Tomato Sauce

2 cans Italian Tomatoes (Add some ROTEL and Fire Powder if you wanna feel the burn!)

1 Tablespoon Olive Oil

1 Teaspoon Summer Savory (ESSENTIAL for soup. You will thank me later.)

1/4 Teaspoon Garlic. Fresh preferred, but powder will do. (1 teaspoon if you wanna keep the vampires away. 1 teaspoon per bowl if you still wanna have a strong ani vampire breath for most of next day. Lol)

Please note that If you have Italian Seasonings or Sicilian seasons may contain the above, plus many other ingredients that go well in soup like rosemary, basil, red pepper flakes, etc. IN MY OPINION, adding an extra Teaspoon of Italian and Sicilian seasoning makes it MORE FLAVORFUL. I sleep well at night, Vampire free.

Pinch of fresh ground pepper per bowl.

Pinch of Parmesan and Romano cheeses per bowl. FRESH if you can. If combined, add two pinches.

Pour 4 cups of stock into your pot. If using cubes or ramen packets, use two. Oddly enough, chicken and beef goes well together. Use one of each.

Add your Olive Oil

Add your spices, except the pepper. (If you want it spicy, see below for my custom Fire Powder)

Bring the pot to a boil. Add the sauce, drained tomatoes. Onions. Boil for 30 minutes.

Add pinch of pepper and cheese at the bottom of the bowl.

Fire Powder for that KICK you been missing from life

1 tablespoon Cayenne Pepper

1 tablespoon Red Pepper Flakes

1 teaspoon paprika

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon cumin

1 pinch of black pepper

Mix together, really sake it up well. Use a quarter or half teaspoon per bowl. Watch it! It’s 🔥🔥🔥

[wlstories]

Meet: @_towhomitmayconcern_ I’m Jordan I had been morbidly obese my entire life topping the scale at over 350lbs at my heaviest and finally I had had enough . On July 31st 2014 I had gastric sleeve surgery and lost 130lbs in 13 months . I have maintained that for almost 5 years and it was the best decision I ever made. I am preparing to have plastic surgery next year to remove all of the excess skin I’m left with and am so excited / nervous for this next step. Starting tip: take it step by step and try to really stay on track ! But also realize you’re human and this journey is really hard both mentally and physically ! Especially in that first year! This weight loss community helped me so much when I fell off or just needed some motivation ! You’ve got this loves!! . . 👀 Did you know 90% of our content YOU DONT SEE!! Check out IG stories!! . 🌴 Wlstories Florida Meetup!! Aug 24th Tampa!! DM For details. . #vsgcommunity #vsglife #verticalsleeve #beforeandafter #vsg #girlswholift #transformationtuesday #curvywomen #beautiful #celebratemysize #lapband #effyourbeautystandards #curvygirl #bodypositivity #fit #workout #tampa #florida #tampabay #extreameweightloss #tlc #ww #countingcalories #stpetebeach https://www.instagram.com/p/BzJ5ZPIDxBE/?igshid=ga6458ufqhfu

[bananabackinaction-blog]

Excited, not excited.

Well it’s coming... I’ve scheduled LapBand to VSG surgery for January 26, 2019. If you read through the mess that is my other blog, you know that I had LapBand surgery in May of 2010. At the time, I weighed over 320 lbs. I thought that LapBand was the best solution for me because, “Hey... at least they aren’t taking any pieces of me out,” but it turns out that it wasn’t my best decision. After 3 successful years of regular weight loss, my band slipped. I was 168 lbs. at the time and barely holding liquids down, despite the pleas to my doctor to take some of the liquid out of my band. So I had to start all over. My band was emptied, and then slowly filled again. Then it slipped again. And again. After the third attempt, I was deemed “non-functional” and that was it. Now the LapBand just sits inside of me, completely useless. Except for the times when it slips for no reason and makes me vomit so hard I get a headache and see stars in my eyes. I’ve gained every pound back (probably thanks more to vodka then to food). Recently, I’ve started having stabbing sciatic pain. I’m only thirty-fucking-seven years old. I shouldn’t be tired. I shouldn’t get winded at the thought of walking from the car into work. I shouldn’t have to make decisions on doing something fun based on if there will be chair for me to sit in. Time to take action. Tons of research lead me to Dr. Alvarez at Endobariatric just over the border in Piedras Negras, Mexico. Yes... MEXICO. The reason I haven’t done this surgery already is because its too fucking expensive and not covered by insurance. But in Mexico it’s relatively cheap. So it’s done! Booked, paid for! I have a 21-day pre-op “full liquid” diet ahead. Then after surgery it’s 7-days of clear liquid, 14-days of full liquid, 7 days of soft foods, then back to normal. The tough part? NO VODKA... for THREE MONTHS... not looking forward to that part. The liquid diet is a piece of cake compared to that. I’ll have to power through. I’m hoping that you will help with that. Just listen to me bitch and it will make me feel better (I hope). We will see. For now, I’m making a bucket list of the places/foods I want to eat before the liquid diet begins on January 5th. Let’s eat!