Hi all. Had my surgery at the end of January and my first fill a week ago: 4.5cc in a 10cc band. I've done well with everything up until now when I find myself hungrier and perhaps gaining. I have lost a total of 38 pounds since I started my supervised diet in July 2013 but now I swear I see the scale creeping up just a bit - maybe a pound or two. I know that can just be normal fluctuation but why in the world am I suddenly not satisfied with what I had been eating before? This seems to have started right after I got the fill!!

Give your recent fill sometime, it may take a few days to a couple weeks to really feel that restriction. Sometimes it would take me 2 weeks to get the feeling of good restriction.

Hi there, congratulations on your weight loss and everything else -- you are doing so well! The fill thing is weird, isn't it? Protocols vary, the way some have fluid in the band at placement, others none, some doctors do a series of small fills, others a large one then tapering off.....hard to know how each Individual is going to react, too. I've had six small fills. It's only this latest one that put me in the zone but it hasn't been black and white, I had to let it all settle in each time and then over a few weeks determine whether I was "there." Best wishes as you continue on -- don't forget it is a slower process with less to lose, but you're on track and now it's spring. Great time to shed!

It is weird. Right after my fills I felt as though nothing happened I could still eat if I wanted to but didn't. Sure enough after a few days or so, I would eat as before and couldn't because my food got stuck. That's when you know it's working. Keep following your doctor's orders and all will be well. Congrats on what you've accomplished so far.

Thank you all for your feedback. It helps to know how it works for others. Sometimes I am so caught between thinking I'm eating too little and too much that I get overwhelmed and don't know which way is the right way to go. I am hoping I'll feel something in the next week as you suggest!

Edited March 18, 201412 yr by honestitriedtofindaname

I felt nothing with my first 2 fills but managed to maintain my 12 lb post op weight loss. My 3rd fill brought on my first real feeling of restriction and satiety. Until your band is adjusted properly it's just another diet.