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SO ok, I have been this board talking of how wonderful it has been to be restricted, the weight is just flying off since my last fill October 3rd and there are some meals I can't get more than a few bites in which I love when I hit the scales the next day. So why now all of a sudden I can eat again? Even in the morning. I still have some restriction, but not what I was getting. Ever since Thanksgiving when I could eat more than a few bites and at lunch today I went to eat my normal half chargrilled chicked sandwich lunch and noticed I ate 3/4's of the sandwich before I threw it away and still wanted more and it only took 30 minutes later for me to be hungry again. Before I would have been stuffed for hours. Why can't I keep the restriction I had, I feel like I am fallin back into the rut I was in before eating everything. I had come to the fact that I just couldn't eat certain things anymore and wouldn't even try. I know it is a mind game, but now I want to try those things again to see if I can get them down even though I know I shouldn't.

I'm sorry this is long and I know not so important with everyone elses problems, but have I slipped too or is losing restriciton a few months after every fill normal? You would think I would know this by now, but I don't. Also, my surgeon sent me a letter saying it has been a year since my surgery and they want me in for an endo to check it out since it has been a year. I thought that was pretty cool except it is a day event and you are not suppose to drive after. Since I have no time off the rest of the year I will have to wait until January to schedule. I wonder if I should schedule sooner??

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Can you take a cab? If so, then use a sick day and schedule sooner. If not, then hold out for January 2nd. Schedule now for the earliest January date.

Good Luck!

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Yes, Ithink it is quite usual to lose restriction a few months after each fill, if you are losing weight. As you lose weight, there is more room in your tummy. If there is more room, there is less pressure on the band, so there is less restriction.

Hmmm, well, it very well could be that you didn't get a complete fill, but instead, some of the fill was accidently removed. Weird I know, but that seems to be what happened to me. Instead of getting more fill, the radiologist was actually letting fills out.

Since I've gone longer than a week since my last fill, and I still have amazing restriction, I think I don't have a leak, but someone who needed more training.

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