Hi and congrats on all your losses !! I am going for my consult this month and have been reading alot here and learning alot.........my ??? now is----what does the right amount of restriction or the "perfect fill" feel like ?? Thanks & hoping for your successes soon !!

HI there ihvbzs, when I went for my last fill I took along a pot of yoghurt. After the fill I found I could only manage to eat half of it. The restriction lifed abit during the day and now I can manage about a cup and a half of food. I learnt the hard way what being full felt like. That night I had three fork fulls of beef with gravy, looked at the mashed potato and had a forkful of that. Bad idea, instant pain and yes the potato came back. I have worked it out that if I think to myself, can I manage another spoonful, I can't. It is a feeling that there is just not any space left. Another sign for me is getting hic cups.It is difficult to explain, you just have to really listen to what your body is telling you. Believe me, if you go the one mouthful to far it can be a pain quite literally.

Kiwigirl,

When I have restriction, there are some foods that just routinely clog up the stoma and cause problems. They are doughy bread, Pasta, rice, raisins (or any dehydrated food that will expand once it gets in the stomach), and potatoes in any form. One restaurant serves stuffed shrimp that contains no breadcrumbs and I love it. But if I order it at the next restaurant, I spend the evening in the restroom with horrific excess salivation happening. Crabcakes can be made with or without breadcrumbs. With proper restriction, I can tell you within a minute or two which it is I just ate.

So, in my case, it would not have been that I ate another forkful, but that it was a forkful of potatoes. The band is different for each of us, but when I have ANY saline in my band, those items are regularly problematic.

Sue

Have you ever been given a satisfactory answer of where some of the fill goes. I have found that sometimes the restriction lessens. I would have thought that if there was a leak all of it would disappear. But it is only a small amount and that as we know can mean alot as far as what we can eat.