Hello,

Just curious if anyone finds that their band gets tighter a few days after their fill. I seem to see no difference right after my fill but about 3 or 4 days later I am not hungry at all. I would think you would feel the tightest right after a fill. Just wondering if anyone else is having the same results.

I've only had one fill so far but it was a big one. They put 3cc's in my 10cc band and I could feel it going in and then I got this weird feeling of pressure in my throat. But the liquids and mushy foods I ate the first few days after went down just fine. I was hungrier than I had ever been, in fact. It took me about a week to feel like I had gotten a fill. I still don't feel as though there is much restriction, since anything gets through, but I did get that not hungry feeling you mentioned! I like that part

looking forward to that

Yep! It takes about a week for me to feel the fill.

That's funny I find the complete opposite. I find that after a fill I tend to swell and then after about a week or two I tend to lose much of the restriction and can eat a good amount of food. I have had two fills so far. The first was 3cc and the second was about 2.5-3 cc so I have about 5.5-6cc and I can eat a pretty good amount of food. Its actually pretty depressing and discouraging.

Everyone reacts to fills differently. Usually there will be immediate restriction due to the "trauma" of the fill on the stomach. This is just the stomach swelling due to what it senses is irritation.

However, if you just got a small or initial fill, you probably wouldn't feel this because you'd still have a largish stoma, so any reactive swelling isn't going to be felt.

In any case, your sense of restriction will always vary, day by day, as long as you are banded. Sometimes it will vary hourly! Most bandsters notice the band is tighter in the morning, and will loosen as the day progresses.

Personally, my fills take two weeks to set up, in terms of judging the real fill level. Right after my fill I'm always restricted, but that's just the irritation and not the actual saline level. Two weeks later, the irritation was calmed down and that's when the fill level reveals itself to me.

I've had several adjustments and each time it's a little different. The most recent adjustment effected my eating within 24 hour, which I absolutely love!

I've had six small fills -- my surgeon goes fast but in small amounts. The last two took a while to "reveal" themselves (love that Paris Shel!). I'm not tight -- just right, I think. Band balks a little if I'm trying something it doesn't like, white meat chicken, for example, or ground meat I haven't cooked myself. I do everything with stock and cooked so there's no stringiness, etc. I could eat more but don't have to -- before I couldn't stop and say enough; now I can.

I recently had my band at 9 1/2 , it was too much for me. I went back about a month later because things kept getting stuck.

Now I need it tightened, because I am gaining weight. I am not happy about that. I have been doing 3 miles a day on my tread mill too. Any suggestions? I feel depressed about it.

I had my 1st fill done 2 .75 cc in a 10cc band on April 2 nd , I have lost 4 pound sense that fill, I feel full for about 5 hours, this has been from the 1st few days after the fill, my N.P told me they like to wait 4 weeks to do a fill as that gives the stomach time to adjust, as many find around 3 weeks they feel the band restriction, well that was not my case at all and I am loving this, 20 pounds down in 6 weeks and 2 days... averages out close to 3 pounds a week!

That's is awesome. Can you share a daily menu with us...you know, what you eat in a day???

I had my 1st fill done 2 .75 cc in a 10cc band on April 2 nd , I have lost 4 pound sense that fill, I feel full for about 5 hours, this has been from the 1st few days after the fill, my N.P told me they like to wait 4 weeks to do a fill as that gives the stomach time to adjust, as many find around 3 weeks they feel the band restriction, well that was not my case at all and I am loving this, 20 pounds down in 6 weeks and 2 days... averages out close to 3 pounds a week!

I feel it the first week then return back to feeling unrestricted. I find the band also requires willpower and learning to eat when hungry only.

I wonder how soon after your fill can you get another one, I had my first fill 5/2 and I am not having any restriction at all.

Not sure how long you HAVE to wait...but my doctor has me come in once a month...wish it could be sooner, especially when you know theres no restriction...

@@ABLOND I know I feel the same way...

My doctor has me waiting 8 weeks between fills. He is very slow. I wish it would have been every 4 weeks. The first few weeks are great and then the restriction becomes less and less but that is me everyone is different.