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I really wish that either fills were and exact science where based on your stomach(internally) they could know the exact amount to put in for the green zone...or....that i could somehow externally tighten/loosen my band when i wanted to!

What would you change about your band?

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The date. I would have gotten it 30 years ago!

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I'm with Cindy, I would have done this years ago!!

I wish it was more uniform instead of fickle! Some days I can eat okay and other days I have trouble with everything.

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Like Cindy, the DATE!!! I sometimes wonder how my life might have been different growing up thin!

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Agreed. I would have done this years ago if I had known it would work like this. ;)

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I wish I could change my band to shorten the "bandster he**" period.

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I really wish that either fills were and exact science where based on your stomach(internally) they could know the exact amount to put in for the green zone...or....that i could somehow externally tighten/loosen my band when i wanted to!

What would you change about your band?

Funny you mention this, there is a device that is rarely new that the surgeon can use at the time of surgery (goes down the throat) to fill the band and the device apparently measures multiple things and can find the perfect fill level (or so they say).

I wish I could find the thread on this, it was probably two or three months ago!

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The only thing I would change is the consistency of restriction. Some days I hardly want to eat anything, other days I could eat a horse!

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