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Band TOO FULL NOW WHAT?

So my band is too full. It was fine when I had my fill but the past two days it's TOO tight... can't get into my dr. Trying to stay calm... any advice is helpful.

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  • I can NEVER drink liquids fast....my last fill, I thought was too tight...stuck it out for a week then called the Dr....he talked me into sticking it out for another week, advised me to stay with liqu

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    Can you drink Water? If you can't get down water, go to the ER and get an unfill. If you can get down water, wait and see how things play out. It may just be an inflammatory reaction to the fill a

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Can you drink Water? If you can't get down water, go to the ER and get an unfill. If you can get down water, wait and see how things play out. It may just be an inflammatory reaction to the fill and will settle down over time.

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I can drink liquids. Just not fast. So I am only drinking protein shakes and water.

Go back to your doc and get some taken out! Being too tight can cause swelling!

I can NEVER drink liquids fast....my last fill, I thought was too tight...stuck it out for a week then called the Dr....he talked me into sticking it out for another week, advised me to stay with liquids for a few days, then slowly move up to soft foods, etc, etc....

I'm glad he did....that was over 3 -1/2 years ago and things could not be better since. Before that last fill my band was doing next to nothing...if I had that last fill removed, then I would have gone back to that place...

As it turned out, in my case anyway, it was a mixture of inflammation of the band area, and adjusting myself, yet once again to eating better food choices and more carefully.

Cannot continue to eat the way I used to if I want the band to take control.

If I did not go all liquids, then I would never have given the band time to settle down, but continue to irritate it.

If I did not, yet again, give up certain foods and also change my eating habits, the band would never have had the chance to function the way it does today.

Every time I got a fill, I had to change my behavior....and the last fill was the most aggressive.

To this day, I still go all liquids for 2-3 days, every 6-8 weeks or so. That is the only maintenance I need having finished with my weight loss.

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