Ok, see post called "2nd fill a nightmare" and you will know what happened yesterday. So, I had liquids yesterday and this AM and now I tried a teensy bit of mushed potato salad and I PB'd. He said I only need unfilled if I can't get liquids down,.,,, but I am supposed to never eat again? I'm hungry!

Are you supposed to be trying mushy or solid yet??? My doc says minimum of 2-3 days liquids. Are you taking too big of bites? Try eating with a baby spoon and fork. That worked for me.

I did 24 hours liquids, now I was going to do 24 hours mushy. I did take a tiny tiny bite!

Could it be the potatoes?? Potatoes and me do NOT get along at all these days.

This happened after my 2nd fill.

In my opinion (from what I have read) Dr. Maese is a bit aggressive on fills. Perhaps you got too much to quick (fill wise).

Best of luck to ya!

Well, I am waiting until tomorrow to go off liquids and then I will try something other than potatoes. i just had tried that b/c that's what I ate alot when I first got banded. Well, he is obviously aggressive with the fills! He basically told me to get over it and didn't I want to be 120 lbs? I was like no - I would be anorexic looking at 120! But I am happy he does flouro and I have to go to him to get my insuarnce to pay for the fills. Well, If I can't get food down by Monday I will go get unfilled some I guess.

The band was not designed to only live on liquids, if you PB again, get a small ammount removed. As little as .2 cc's will make the biggest difference in being able to eat solids but still give you enough restriction to lose weight. have him take you down to 2.1 or 2 cc's, You had a big jump from 1.6 to 2.3...Good Luck and keep us posted

Heck I'd pb on potatos of any kind fill or no fill. Just say NO to potatos.

I say maybe keep trying. Aim for a no pb day, you are probably all swollen up.

And then if still a problem get a slight unfill.

Hang in there!

Those two fills seemed awfully close together. Am I mistaken?

They were close - he wanted to "catch" me up b/c he said I should have had a fill 4 weeks after surgery, not 6 weeks. I dunno, I'm confused and irritated!

when I am really nice and tight, its mashed potaotes that I call my solids and they go down nicely and I eat them almost daily.. I was surprised to hear some cant tolerate them.,

Try thin oatmeal ( the Quaker Weight loss Banana bread with 7 grams of protein is heaven sent) or cream of wheat. I tend to live alot on those two. My bad food is popcorn. for some reason it goes down way too easy