Is this normal?

[kdaly32 0]

Hi there. So I am 9 weeks post op and I am having some serious digestive issues. After every meal, and it doesnt matter what I eat, I throw up. I chew my food really well and I wait between bites which means it takes about an hour to eat one chicken breast. Even after strawberries, a bite of noodles, grapefruit, anything, I find myself running to the bathroom. I had my fill two weeks ago, but this was happening even before that. Now it is just more often. What do I do? Am I doing something wrong? PLEASE HELP!!!! :cry

[freetobe 0]

Hi there. So I am 9 weeks post op and I am having some serious digestive issues. After every meal, and it doesnt matter what I eat, I throw up. I chew my food really well and I wait between bites which means it takes about an hour to eat one chicken breast. Even after strawberries, a bite of noodles, grapefruit, anything, I find myself running to the bathroom. I had my fill two weeks ago, but this was happening even before that. Now it is just more often. What do I do? Am I doing something wrong? PLEASE HELP!!!! :cry

I don't think that is normal. Have you called your MD? I wonder if you have something stuck that is causing you to vomit. I suggest you get in contact with your MD ASAP!!!!

[kdaly32 0]

Thats just it though. When I went in for my fill I told him that I wasnt keep things down and he said that was normal. And I have had two CT scans in the past 9 weeks and both show that everything is normal.

[thatgirl 0]

Hmmm- doesn't sound right to me... and you are chewing everything a whole lot? That sounds horrible, I am so sorry.

Have you tried getting some liquid with your food, maybe that would help it pass?

[Davyna 0]

How much are you eating per sitting?

[jennyc 0]

I have this problem too and I believe at this stage my band is probably a little tight. I am trying to hang in there because I know that after a while the band relaxes. It is getting better and this is the 2nd week after my last adjustment.

Sometimes I think that if you vomit too much it seems to irrate the area and once you start it doesn't seem to stop. For me I have to stop eating and let everything settle. Remember to eat very small amounts and chew for ages. Don't drink with your meal or then your in trouble. Good luck

[lapband4meNOW 0]

You should not be throwing up like that. You are too tight!

[lapband4meNOW 0]

P.S. Go TELL your doctor to unfill it some. Do not take NO for an answer. Say you appreciate what he is saying but this is not acceptable. You are the BOSS!!!

[kdaly32 0]

Thanks guys for all of your advice. I did indeed call my surgeon and tell him what was going on. I moved up my appointment for my second fill and I went in today to get some removed. I felt like I was pulling teeth trying to get him to understand that I was in pain. He only took out .2 ccs but since he put in 1.8 in the first place, I think thats better then nothing right? How many do most people get put in? He said I should be losing more weight faster by now but taking out part of the fill is going to slow me down. I just feel a little down right now since I left the office. How do you guys cope with it?

[lapband4meNOW 0]

I have not lost weight in the last week and a half. It is depressing. I have not had my first fill yet. I am hoping that will help me lose again. I guess the only way I deal with it is try to think that it will happen. However, the old me, thinks of this as..great 'I will not be successful at this either!'....That is a great fear of mine. I am still trying to understand where the weightloss really comes from. Half of the boards talk about not being able to eat because they are too tight, or too afraid. Is fear and lack of physically being to eat what causes success on this? That is what I sometimes think. Or is it, that with the right fill, I will have more control and still be able to eat healthy, etc? I hope this is the case. I don't want to live my life with this PB'ing, sliming, or being afraid of having lunch with my customers and getting something caught like that.

[kdaly32 0]

Well thats just the thing. I have been losing weight, slowly yes, but still losing. Its just that I am in college and this is my spring break. I have been PBing about 5 times a day and I dont keep down 90% of my meals. I just am afraid of having to go out to dinner and keep getting up to go PB. Does that sound like a good quality of life. But on the other hand, I want to lose a lot of weight so do I suck it up and continue to PB or not eat at all or do I just go at a snails pace of weight loss? I am sure once you get a fill things will start dropping again and you will realize that you can do this too. Hopefully that little voice that says you can't do this either will be forever silenced when you look in the mirror!