some advice please

Hi,

I have a Lap Band since 18 october 2006 and since then I managed to loose 62 lbs and weight is dropping off. Sometimes I feel i am the evil with in oz shouting I am melting melting..

But although I am pleased I am loosing weigt so fast its not so strange. I can not eat anything at all. After the operation i went 2 weeks on liquids and then semi hard foods. I had no problems with eating then. I never felt full and thought hmm not much change in what I can eat.

Since 4 weeks I can not tolerate any food. Anything I eat I vomit up. The only thing I have been living on is warm tea. I keep trying to eat even some semi fluid things but after one bite It wont go down.Sometimes I manage to eat 1 tiny piece of food. I make sure to eat very slowly and chew a LOT. No results. After throwing up a few times per day I have kinda giving up and have to force myself to even try to eat.

After 4 weeks of practically no eating and having actually no appetite at all I wonder if anyone else has experienced this. It is wonderful my weight is finally dropping so fast but I am afraid that I have some complication and they have to remove the band. For me the band is such a wonderful tool and my weight is finally coming off that I dont want to loose it. I do exercise not a lot though more like taking nice walks and lots and lots of shopping trips and I try to move a lot by doing a lot of heavy cleaning.

Anyone any ideas or advice what I should do?

If you haven't already - contact your doctor!! This is not normal. You may be dropping weight fast, but it's not healthy. You need to find out what is going on.

You basically haven't eaten in three months? There's no benefit to that kind of weight loss, because if you're not eating, your body is cannibalizing your own muscle for energy. For goodness' sake, call the doc!

Good luck...let us know how it goes.

Tami

No nutrition for four weeks is not healthy weight loss. It's your body eating itself to survive. It's also not weightloss you're going to sustain, so don't think of it as "closer to goal".

Call your surgeon. I don't want to see your little green "online" dot when I refresh, because you better be off of here and on the phone. :)

I agree with all of the above. That is certainly not normal.

I am willing to bet that you chose the band because you wanted to lose weight in a healthy way, change your lifestyle and learn new habits, right?

Please see your dr so that you can get on the right track asap. Good luck and keep us posted!

Please Please Please call your doc!!!!!!

Just have to echo everything here.

Here's the tough love portion of our show:

Do you HONESTLY think that it is ok to NOT BE ABLE TO EAT for weeks at a time?!?!?!?!?!

C'mon, I know losing weight is fun, but death isn't. Go see your doctor and please come back and let us know what the good doctor says.

end of my tough love...I say it cuz I care