What is the average number of fills for a person? Also, am I to understand you have fills every time you don't feel restriction, or hit a plateau?

Thanks everyone.

My doctor, Dr. Curry in Cincinnati, said that it usually takes 3-5 fills to get to your "sweet spot". Then you might need one every few months as you lose weight. My doctor does the first fill after 4 weeks and then another one 2 weeks later and then once a month until you get to the right spot.

I am on the fill roller coaster. I have had probably 12 fills and unfills over the course of 1800 months. Very costly to maintain.

ARE YOU SERIOUS?! OMG people, please don't tell me that's the norm. Serious second thoughts here......

I had my first fill November 29. I don't need another one yet. My husband, on the other hand, also had his first fill november 29 and has needed another one for the last three weeks. My daughter has been banded 14 months, and has had 4 fills. She has lost 120 lb in that time.

You asked if you need a fill "every time" you don't feel restriction or hit a plateau. Some days I don't feel restriction, but I usually do. some days my husband feels restriction, but he usually doesn't. Also, what kind of a plateau? Three days? Three months? If I didn't lose a pound for a month, I would probably figure I had hit a plateau and needed a fill. But I have gone a week at a time without losing, and still don't think I need one.

So the moral of this story is that there is no norm. Everyone experiences this differently. Our bodies react differently, and our minds do too. I don't think I need a fill right now partly because I usually have some restriction, but also because I don't feel I will eat uncontrollably even if I don't have great restriction right now. That could change next week, but right now I'm okay.

So be prepared for the time and expense of multiple fills, but you may not need more than a few.