Does the band eventually get filled up to the point where the Dr. cant add anymore, but you dont feel full anymore? How do people stretch their pouches and make the band not work like it should anymore? Im due to be banded Jan 4 and just was wondering ?

My band was 3/4 full, giving me great restriction, and id maintained for years when i had to unfill it for surgery and chemotherapy. On filling it again, ive never been able to get the same restriction, theres now only 0.2cc to go ( old 4 cc band) and. I know i could add the other 0.2 and not be tight. Its strange - and its highly unlikely i have a stretched pouch after nine months empty.

Because im maintaining rather than trying to lose, its ok, i do have restriction, just not the same. But i am thinking of having a barium swallow and upper just to check it.

I have a 4cc band, and 2.5cc's is my fill line. If I go over that, I'm in the Red. So I have a ways to go before I have to worry about the band not being the rite size for my stomach anymore.

Now this can happen, but you would have to lose a lot of weight to get fill after fill, and reach your limit,just to have it not work.

It is very rare. Most Dr.'s know what size band you need, by looking at the stomach, as a result this normally does not happen.

So I wouldn't worry to much about that. You would have to get pretty thin.

My band has 1.6 in it now, so I will go in and try for a fill that might get me up to 1.9... So 4cc's for me is a ways away.

It all depends, I only have 4 cc in a 10 cc band. Anymore, and I am also in the Red Zone. Others say, they are filled to the max and don't feel restriction. Best of luck, follow your surgeon's guide lines, I am, also, like Jachut, in maintenance but even loosing, I could not go past 5 cc. Karen