So I had a band for 5 years until it slipped and wash removed a year ago. I went with RNY and am 1 week post op.

So, I thought it would be an easy transition but the fullness feels different and I don't know my stop signals anymore. With my band it was a runny nose or a heavy sigh. Also having a year without anything put me back into some pretty bad habits on portion and speed eating.

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I can tell you with RNY, it takes a little bit to recognize what your "full" feeling is now. I can tell mine by how I feel in my upper chest area. If I go even one bite over, man you want to talk about painful! The middle of my chest gets a horrible pain like someone is standing on my sternum, and it lasts for a good 15-30 minutes. Sometimes I get sick (sometimes even vomiting). Sometimes I just get dry heaves, but not really dry. The heaves you can feel food there, it just doesn't come all the way up. I've since learned that when I feel kind of satisfied, STOP! Because if one more bite is taken, it will probably be too much.

I think this is why you need to eat slowly as well as to recognize when you have had enough and to make your food as passable as possible.

Good Luck.

I get a runny nose and feel like I want to vomit...sometimes do.

oh...and i will hiccup sometimes

At 1 week out you are still on liquids, and even into pureed stage my stop point seemed unclear.

I really never felt "Full" like others state they got. But once I went to soft and regular foods, it really changed.

It is true to take small bites and chew well and take a while to eat. The pouch will start to fill and if we rush eating, we fill it before the mind gets the pain signal---BAM.

As I progressed into solids, I learned even more to not eat distracted and SLOW Down.

I have never yet been so full to throw up-and hope I never do, but have felt very uncomfortable for a few hrs. till the food passed.

Enjoy the journey.

You will probably not notice the full feeling until you reach the solid stage which is generally around a month post-op. Since your signs were a runny nose or a heavy sigh using the lap band, it probably will be the same trigger. For me it was runny nose, hiccups, mucous accumulation, sneezing.