I was banded 2/20/2013, I am 15 lbs from goal weight. I was wondering what everyone experiences when they are "done" eating and if my experience is typical. First thing that happens is that my nose runs, then I start hiccupping. If I take another bite, then I have pain and I have to stop. Period. Sometimes I can wait, and the food finally goes down, if not, I am running to the bathroom to throw up. It comes up pretty much as it went down. dinner is over. There are some days everything goes down fine. There will be a day or two in a row that nothing seems to be going down except liquid. I get worried that maybe my band has slipped. The next day everything is back to normal again. Anyone else experience this?

Thanks for your input.

lately large burps...! and if I try to continue to eat it feels like what I did eat wants to come back up, there has never been a day that I can't eat, but there are days that it has to be soft foods.. I know sometimes its a mental thing just used to eating and eating and I admit sometimes when I forget to take small bites I do tend to eat more, but boy do I feel it, my lapband sticks out like a golfball.

I get sleepy. If I eat a little more than I should, I get pain in the upper part of my back/shoulder.

I used to get those signals. Now, occasionally I'll get a hiccup or two but mostly I start to feel pressure near my sternum where the pouch is so I stop for a while to see if it stays or goes away.

That's pretty much what I feel, a pressure in sternum that is.

Edited February 8, 201412 yr by SandyM