Hi,

Since my last fill seven weeks ago, I have been doing pretty well. Three days after my fill I tried to drink some diet orange drink in the car and I got stuck. I got out of the car and PB'd. I thought I was too tight, but when I got to work, I was able to drink fluids no problem. I progressed to solids again with no problems and very few PB's and was cruising along for weeks. Then, one night I got up in the middle of the night and took a swig of cold Water from the sink and promptly got stuck and PB'd. Again, I went to warm liquids 1/2 hour later and was fine. Went back on solids with no issues. Then yesterday, I was in the car, again drinking a diet orange drink (am I starting to see a pattern?) and bam, got stuck and ended up PB'ing. Got to work, was able to drink warm liquids. I tried to eat a mushy lunch and PB'd that. I stayed on liquids the rest of the day with no problems and am still on liquids today. They are going down, but my stomach feels swollen and tight. I don't know if I'm too tight, or if I just took too big of sips the times I PB'd liquids, or if I reacted to the citrus in the drinks, or if being in the car affected it, or what.

What I don't understand is the mechanics or physics of what happens. Why would a sip of liquid not go down, come back up, but then I can drink again immediately following? It seems to me either I'd be stuck/too tight or I wouldn't. If the hole is there and slightly open, wouldn't liquid go down eventually? Or does the whole muscular system clamp up? It's all so confusing.

Has anyone had a problem like what I'm describing???

Thanks!

Sunta I have read but never personally experienced that cold fluids can make the pouch spasm.

I drink room temperature fluids but it is due to dental discomfort.

Myra

Hi Sunta

I drink cold drinks perhaps too quickly but i never pb them up.:eek: I tend to only develop a burp or two. How long have you been banded or have you had your first fill recently. :confused:

LANA

Hmm, maybe there is a trend with you and those orange drinks, lol. A couple of things, one, is it that time of month? Many of us tend to retain Water during our periods, and this causes everything to swell, inside and out, which causes our bands to tighten. Along those same lines, when I reported to my doctor that I am tight in the mornings and can only drink liquids, he asked if my rings felt tight in the mornings, which they do. He said some people tend to retain water at night, which makes their bands tighter in the morning.

I also cannot drink anything cold. I have to drink everything at room temperature or I have problems. Final question, are those diet orange drinks carbonated? If so, that could be part of your problem too.