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Perfect fill

:rolleyes: I really don't know what a good fill is but I am assuming I now have a good fill. After this past month I was beginning to wonder if Lapband was for me or not. I am very happy with my weight loss. I could not do it all on my own. I am now down 62 pounds and it will be one year 2/17/11. Everytime I got fills I was very sick and he had to remove the fill. I went three different times. This last time he put in . 5 cc and then I had to go back and he removed half of it. I am at 4.75 in a 11 cc band. Now that the swelling has finally went down. Which took almost 3 weeks I can finally eat a little something. I now eat 3-5 baby bites of something and I am full. I guess this is what they mean by the perfect fill. I am going the gym 5-6 days a week also. Hopefully I will be losing more weight. So if there is anyone that has been discouraged from there band just keep trying. I am proof, it took me almost a year before I got here.

 

 

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collins33

LAP-BAND Patients

Thank you for your encourgement. I really needed that today. For the longest I wanted the band and I finally got it in Dec 2010. I was having my up and downs but I finally got my 1st fill and I seem to see a difference with only 2.5 cc in my band.

shifflett00

LAP-BAND Patients

By seeing a big difference do you mean that you get full quick? But most of all does anything get stuck?? I just got my band Jan 2011 and had 4 cc in with was a mistake and everything got stuck and it was misserable. I have nothing in my band now and go for a fill on the 23rd. I dont want to have that awful feeling of every bite sending me to my knees.

malexander

LAP-BAND Patients

By seeing a big difference do you mean that you get full quick? But most of all does anything get stuck?? I just got my band Jan 2011 and had 4 cc in with was a mistake and everything got stuck and it was misserable. I have nothing in my band now and go for a fill on the 23rd. I dont want to have that awful feeling of every bite sending me to my knees.

I was overfilled once before also (I was banded in December 2010). It was my very first fill. It was absolutely TERRIBLE. Something got so badly stuck I had to rush to my doctor (throwing up all the way.) I didn't know what I was suppossed to feel like after a fill, so I made it three days before I couldn't take it anymore. I could barely breathe. I had some saline taken out, but not all. I have been losing weight and am satisfied eating a LOT less than before. Hopefully they will start with less this time, and you will definitely be able to tell what "good" feels like. I go back or another fill soon, but I might not even need it. I'm staying full for like 4 hours on not a lot of food. :rolleyes:

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