I have had 3 fills since being banded 5/23/07; my last one was 8 weeks ago and brought me up to about 2.7 in a 4 cc band. I have been losing an average of 2 lbs a week. I say average because it fluctuates. I work out a lot and very hard so I know if I weren’t doing that I wouldn’t be losing anything at all.

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The last two weeks I have been so hungry and its not just head hunger. I can eat a lot more food, and have to if I want to feel full. I am eating healthy proteins most of the time and that does not seem to make a difference, within 30 minutes I am starving. I have let this go on like this for a few weeks because I wanted to make sure it wasn’t just a bump in the road that would correct itself. I can eat breads of any kind with no problems which before would have been a huge problem.

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I go to a fill clinic that has a Fill Nazi, just generally bad bedside manners and is very rigid. Do you think the fact that I have been losing weight will make them not want to give me a fill at all?

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I think I will wear heavy shoes, clothes, and load the pockets up with weight! J No really I know I need a small fill but am worried they wont want me to have one unless I am not losing.

Initially they're going to look at your weight loss and think you've done just fine and probably do NOT need a fill. If your doctor has a flouroscope and they try to tell you "no", ask to be fouro'd to see for sure. I was in the same situation as you three weeks ago....had averaged over 2 pounds a week but still could eat a LOT of food. My surgeon did not think I would need a fill so I went to the flouroscope and sure as anything, the barium just whizzed through my gut, showing I was way too loose. I told him that even though I was too loose, I had been GOOD the last month and stuck very closely to what I should eat, instead of eating what I actually COULD eat. The flouroscope does not lie.

My doc didn't want to give me a fill either, because I was losing so well. I told him that I was fighting for every pound and living hungry! That was all he needed to hear and I've had two fills since. I'm finallly at good restriction!! Let's hope it lasts!!

Good luck

I have had 3 fills since being banded 5/23/07; my last one was 8 weeks ago and brought me up to about 2.7 in a 4 cc band. I have been losing an average of 2 lbs a week. I say average because it fluctuates. I work out a lot and very hard so I know if I weren’t doing that I wouldn’t be losing anything at all.

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The last two weeks I have been so hungry and its not just head hunger. I can eat a lot more food, and have to if I want to feel full. I am eating healthy proteins most of the time and that does not seem to make a difference, within 30 minutes I am starving. I have let this go on like this for a few weeks because I wanted to make sure it wasn’t just a bump in the road that would correct itself. I can eat breads of any kind with no problems which before would have been a huge problem.

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I go to a fill clinic that has a Fill Nazi, just generally bad bedside manners and is very rigid. Do you think the fact that I have been losing weight will make them not want to give me a fill at all?

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I think I will wear heavy shoes, clothes, and load the pockets up with weight! J No really I know I need a small fill but am worried they wont want me to have one unless I am not losing.

Ok I had to respond to this thread because I, too, go to the "Fill Nazi"! I have been lurking this site for over a year and have been banded since Sept 1, '06 and have lost 75 lbs. I went from a size 18 to a size 4/6. This post just made me laugh because I know exactly who and what you are talking about. I went in for my 3rd fill right before the holidays last year saying that I was at a "plateau" and I overheard the nurse talking to nazi saying that she didn't think there was a plateau since I had actually lost 12 lbs since the last time I came in. In saying all this, I still got my small fill and that is where I stayed until this past August when I had to be totally unfilled and have my gallbladder removed. I am now trying to get back in to get a fill so I can quit being scared that I will bow to my demons and put the lbs back on. So just tell her how you feel and that you feel that you aren't losing the way you should and nazi & NURSE will probably just do it, that is if there machine is working yet. It wasn't on monday when I went for a fill. Good Luck!

Thanks for the replys! Garrett... hopefully she will be in a good mood and the machine will be fixed. Maybe I will call next week before I go to find out if it is working yet. I have never had a fill without the flouro. Good luck getting re-filled. Its such a process to get to a good point only to have to start back over again. I cant imagine!

You just never know what kind of mood she will be in when you go. I will state my case exactly as it is and if she wont give me a small fill I will have to look for other options. I cant take the torture of being so hungry all the time.

Update-

Well, I went yesterday and she was in an amazingly good mood! I think i have really only had one bad experience with her before and maybe she was just having a bad day. She asked why I thought I needed a fill when I had lost 16 lbs in 8 weeks, I told her it wasnt about the weight loss that it was about the quantity of food I could consume and how hungry I have been the last 3 weeks.

She gave me another .5 cc yesterday, for a total of 2.7 cc in a 4 cc band. I really think this fill is going to do it for me, the last one was great for 5 weeks. I also think it will help with the motivation.