Hi there, Youtube. This is shyshy1981, and I’m so excited to be able to share with you my experiences and journey with the Slimband procedure. Today is my fifth day from being banded, and I have to say that things going really well for me. I’ve had minimal pain, not a lot of gas, and thankfully, I feel like I’m recovering quite well.
Starting with this video, I’m going to touch base with my journey with the surgery and up to date how things have been. So I was banded on March 11th, so I had to actually had to fly out to Toronto. I am from Alberta, so it was quite a little hike out there, but I arrived there on early Thursday morning, and basically that day we just took it easy.
Did a little bit of sightseeing and shopping and had an early night.
I was required to be at the Slimband Clinic about 9:00 in the morning so gave ourselves plenty of time, arrived at the clinic. The Slimband staff were all fantastic. They were very through. Asked me if I had any questions.
I really didn’t have a lot of questions because I really did my homework before showing up there. I had watched quite a few YouTube videos. I had been in touch with other people who had been banded and I had read some blogs and such, as well as consulted with the consultant a couple of times as well.
So I was really confident with going into the procedure, and I think that that’s important because I never felt anxious or nervous, really. I was just ready ready for the surgery.
So basically they prepped me, made me feel really comfortable, and before I knew it I was waking up recovery. A very little pain. I would say the most I felt was the left side incision seemed to be quite sore, and I complained about that. And the other thing that I complained about was that I was really cold and I guess that’s a very common thing with coming out of general anesthesia.
So other than that I felt really good. They make you drink a glass of water, make sure that you can pass that easily and after that, if you’re feeling up to it, you’re ready to go home.
So we went back to the hotel room and I actually just crawl into bed and relax, slept it off and took it really easy that evening. We did a little bit of, we went for a short walk up the street and back. And I made myself walk just because that is prevention of the gas pains that everybody talks about, so even I was just going to the wash room make sure that I put in a little walk in there so I would just go up the hallway and walk back and forth a couple of times.
And I really think that did help because I had minimal pain. I had no pain in my upper left hand shoulder and I really dreaded that for some reason. But so far so good with the gas. So good luck to you, as well, if you’re worried about that.