Okay fellow bandsters...what is the deal?!?! Got my second fill last Monday...finally felt what restriction is! Yeah!!!!

So I bee-bop along in that heavenly feeling of "Losing weight--finally happening--wanna dance thru the streets cause I'm finally fell like I've had a surgery" --you know the feeling....then 3 days later, and still now,,,,can't tell I've even had surgery again...Nothing, nada...could eat a whole cow without chewing too much I believe...WHY IS THIS BAND SO PERSNICKETY???? Were those 3 days my one and only chance?? Sorry for venting, but so frustrated here I could scream....

It took me three fills before it started working long term. Same thing would happen, a couple days and then nothing. My Doctor said it was due to swelling, and until I got to the suite spot, my restriction would not be there. I did, finally, after 3 days.

Same thing happened to me. Then 3 weeks later it came back due to hormonal fluctuations. Now...nothing again. I'm scheduling ANOTHER fill for next week maybe. It will come; I think we have to believe it or go crazy.

Thanks...it helps to know I'm not crazy (at least about the fill! )...I am just so disapponted...it was like a high for a few days....now I'm afraid I'm gonna gain back the few lbs I lost last week...We'll see..

Charlee,

that is my life exactly. But it seems to go up and down a lot. Sometimes i fill like my fill is just what it needs to be and feel like i can barely eat. other times i can eat 2 slices of pizza just like regular folks (well almost-slower and a bit smaller bites). i can't figure it and don't know what to do. but at least know i have a word to describe it...PERSNICKETY!

Ha!! Then "persnickety" it is....I've had jobs I didn't give the kind of attention to that I do this band! I think the only weight I've lost (42 lbs since banding Dec 23), has been from regular dieting--I'm doing that 'cause I know everyone is expecting me to lose weight with my band. Now ain't that a psychological hoot! 42 is a looooooong way from goal.....it does me good though to see other replies that it could possibly restrict again on me...