I was told that stretching your stomach will resort to having the band taken out and put back in a few weeks later after your stomach has shrunk. I am just wondering and slightly scared to know if and how you know your stomach is stretched. I've noticed that my hunger is back and I can eat almost all of the food on my plate before I get hungry again, usually consists of a chicken breast and a few boiled fresh carrots(chopped). Does it take a lot to stretch your stomach, and if so how would you know if you did?

I have never heard this....

But what I think you are probably thinking about is stretching your pouch...the portion of your stomach above the band.

It is common...probably from eating too much, and drinking liquids while eating...ignoring the signals the band sends to slow down or stop altogether...(which is hard to do)

The pouch is still part of the stomach, and the stomach is designed to stretch and shrink depending on how much is put in there.

I never heard where the band was removed because of a dilated pouch...(although I can see it in the most severe cases) What a Dr. will do is instruct the patient to go all liquids for a period, giving the pouch a time to shrink back to normal.

If a Dr. feels a patient will not be able to control themselves and go all liquids on their own, he/she will do a complete un-fil, removing all Fluid from the band, along with it all restriction, which will also give the band a chance to rest and the pouch return to normal.

I have been banded for 5 years...I believe I can detect when my pouch is beginning to stretch....and because of this I will do, as the only maintenance I can think of, is go all liquids for 2-3 days...usually 2 days is enough, to give everything a chance to rest and re-set so to speak..

Then everything is as good as new....