bigmurray

Dr Duperier is a little arrogant and did not do my band but he is EXTREMELY good at what he does and will normally fill any band--his office has the best equipment in San Antonio but I don't know if he has an office in Austin

I have had almost exactly the same experience as 2muchfun --Since banding I have never felt full or even near full--I get "hangs" almost daily now but I cook my food especially to get them using mostly chicken breast meat and pork cooked very dry because I want this band to work--I wonder if the hangs come from the band being almost tight enough--I quit my surgeon for fills because he only guested at what was happening and found another clinic which uses the fluoroscope for every fill doing it before and while filling only stopping after seeing the amount of restriction--no matter how experienced your surgeon any other way is just a guess--I lost 114 lbs before banding by dieting on only 26 lbs in 5 months after--I can lose by feeling starved but that's not what I was told would happen and definitely not what I paid for

I use grown flax seed instead of fish oil calsules--the flax seed has 3 different omegas and a high concentration--mix it with something as the taste is not very good

I guess I have the opposite problem of most here--I was banded 12-23-11 and it's not tight enough yet--I think-- the only way it feels li8ke it works is if I barely chew a large piece of dry meat(chicken breast, roast beef or roast pork) and then swallow it whole--I do this slowly on my first few bites and see if I can "feel" it hit the band and if I can I chew a little better but still leave it pretty coarse--it hurts a lot if it truly hangs but I am ready for this band to work--anyone else that does this?