Hi all,

So last week I had a bug that was causing me to throw up. I immedately went to my surgeons office and had my fill removed because I was heaving with nothing coming up as it was being blocked by the band. At the time I had 9.3cc fill and they removed ~8cc. Leaving me with 1.3, so my chart says. She (the nurse practioner) just couldn't get that last 1.3 cc out because of a vacuum effect. I think that was what she said.

So yestrday my Dr. went to fill me back up since I am better now. He was only able to put about 6 or 7 cc back in. I could feel the tightness around my stomach pouch. It was uncomfortable so he stopped. He never really explained why this is. Is this normal? I have never never felt a fill before (I never had a huge fill like this before either). It kind worried me that I felt it this time. Because he couldn't fill me completely back up and my Water felt funny going down, he had me do a barium swallow (yuck!) and everything looked fine to him.

I'm just wondering why it would feel like that. I'm very disappointed that I didn't get filled all the way as I was finally feeling full after meals and now it will be another month before my next fill. Maybe I should not have said anything about it hurting while he was doing the fill.

Sorry, may be a stupid question, but I feel better having asked it, since I stupidly didn't ask the Dr.

The vomiting probably caused some swelling. Give it time to heal and go back next month for your fill. You'll get your restriction back.

You were probably just extra sensitive and very tender from all the irritation the band had to go through. I bet you will feel fine at your next fill, so just hang in there. If he wasn't worried, i wouldn't be either.

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While swelling can account for some of the discrepancy, when your nurse was trying to remove everything she could have - or the Dr. could have - inadvertently pushed a little air into your band, that takes up space and if you didn't know, you can fill a band with air and not saline. So you could actually have the full amount of fill, it just may not be all in fluid.