OK, so I had my first fill on Thursday (2.5 cc), and I still feel NO RESTRICTION!!! Is this normal?? I honestly think I could eat a full meal of chicken fajitas with chips and salsa and be just fine. The doc used the fluoro, and I could tell that the barium slowed down.....I don't get it!!

Hi Surby, don't get discouraged! Some people take as many as 2-4 fills before they reach optimal restriction, or even feel it at all. Another thing is, which I truly have no understanding of why, but sometimes people get a fill and think it didn't work, but it actually just takes a couple of weeks to kick in. That happened with my first fill. So, I would give it at least two weeks if I were you. Then, if you are still feeling nothing, call your doctor and see how long before he will let you have another one.

I didn't have any restriction with my first fill either. A couple weeks later, I scheduled a second fill. I definitely have restriction now. Hang in there. It may take a few before you feel it.

((raises hand))

happened to me also. i only recently attained a level of restriction, and finally after months and months, i am losing weight at a satisfying rate.

i had all of my fills with flouro also, and i saw with my own eyes as the barium slowed through the band!!!

btw-on my last fill, i scheduled in the afternoon, and wow what a difference!! something about being swollen in the morning...since the swelling had subsided by the afternoon, there was a better idea of what kind of restriction we were really looking at on the xray machine!!

I too have very little restriction after my first fill. Its been about a week, and after the first few days of "first bite syndrome" I'm back in action now, and I'm able to eat way to lagre portions. I have to wait anouther week to get a second fill, and my apt.time is @ 6:oopm--I hope mini-me's experience will make a difference with me, maybe going later in the day will help---thanks for your thoughts on that! Please let us know how the next fill works out for you all.....chrissie

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Everyone keep up the good work.... and one pound at a time... it does add up!!! carol

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Totally normal!!!!

Took me 2 fills to have any restriction at all

Carol68....I had both of my fills 2hrs after I ate breakfast....no problem. Although some people prefer to fast, unless your doctor has told you to I wouldn't bother.

Thank you for the reply. I have been reading the amounts everyone has gotten and was wondering do you get to choose how much fill or does the doctor? this will be my first time with this doctor since I had my band put on in mexico. So he knows nothing about me and since is my first fill I'm not sure how to "act"..... at $350 a pop I want to get my money's worth... lol

thanks Carol

Carol....the doctor generally chooses how much fill you get. Some doctors are much more cautious than others.

When I had my first fill it was a standard amount that my doctor puts in all his patients bands. When I went for my second fill my doctor asked me a series of questions, looked at my weightloss and decided I need a larger fill.....since then I have had wonderful restriction.

Just remember.....very, very few people have good restriction after their first fill.

Good Luck Jo:)

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My husband and one friend knows about me getting banded, I didn't want to tell everyone way to much pressure..... so I sometimes feel alone... but, not anymore.....

and you keep up the good work wow 31lbs, doesn't it feel great!!!!

Carol

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I had my first fill 10/6 - the doc wanted to put in 2cc's but I talked her into 1.8 cc's...I have totally good restirction now, but man, I can only eat about three tablespoons of anything and its all over. I haven't quite learned where that tippiong point is, so I have pb'd at least once a day since my fill...anybody else have this experience? I don't know if I'd rather eat more or have the restriction and the weight loss...feeling pretty glum about it all...

I had my second fill last Wednesday Oct 11...Monday night restriction hit me like a bullet......pbing for hours. I stayed on liquids all day. I tried soup and a little boiled chicken and was sick again....Help what do I do?My chest is so sore..:help:

Stop the insanity! What are all these short terms mean???

sweetrepose,

PBing is productive burping. You burp and the last bit of food comes with it.

llewis

I got my 2nd fill Mon. night. The first was 1.2cc, then .5 for this one. I had very little restriction with the 1st fill. But boy this one has made me really take notice. I still have alot of "first bite" issues. After 2/3 bites of anything I get a tremendous tightening in my sternum,followed by PBing, so bad that Im having a hard time telling if its JUST a pb or if Im really going to vomit! (luckily its JUST been pb!) the back of my mouth starts watering just like before you vomit and I get real hot and sweatty. Its horrible but strangely only lasts a few minutes and passes as fast as it comes on. Then Im fine to continue eating, but who wants to eat after all that?!! Does anyone else here have any "first bite" problems? Ive heard drinking something warm 1st might help?

P.S.

I asked my fill Dr. why Ive read about some people saying it takes time for thier fill to 'kick-in' like a week or two.She said theres no such thing, because the fill goes in immediatly and as tight as you leave the office is how you are going to be.Wich does make sense but....with sooo many people having had that kind of experience, it seems to me that it has to be acknowleded that it does happen. Does anyone no why? or hear any theories?