I had a fill yesterday, and my doc put in .5 cc. That's a pretty big fill, considering I already had over 2 ccs in my band. I'm TIGHT. I had hit my sweet spot with the last one, but lost enough weight that I had been really loose recently. I was even eating bread! Not tons, of course, but when I've got good restriction, I can't even nibble on bread. Right now, I'm having to sip, sip, sip everything. But that's fine. My doc says that as long as I can get liquids down, I'm good.

My surgeon works in .5cc increments for 4cc bands, and I *think* 2cc increments for 10cc bands. He is one of the moer aggressive fillers -- in his words, "Why not get you losing quicker?"

i agree with you're surgeon...

and my surgeon is an aggressive filler as well... at one of my fills he did 3.2cc's .. and he never does less than 1.5cc's

My surgeon is considered "conservative" but he gave me 3ccs at my first fill (1cc already in the band from surgery) and 2ccs at my second fill. However, it was six weeks from surgery for my first fill and five weeks until the second (couldn't get an appointment for four weeks.) It's four weeks until my next fill.

I'm really scared about having too much restriction and, personally, would rather have to add a bit of willpower to a light restriction from the band than have to deal with PB'ing and getting stuck. I can manage "a little" willpower on my own, it's when I have to keep up "a lot" over time that I fail...

Oh yeah, I don't believe in being so tight that you're always PBing, sliming, and getting stuck. I think that's just asking for a slipped or eroded band.

Yeah, I had great weight loss when I was too tight. I was smart enough to know that it would lead to losing my band, and that wasn't worth it. I went in for an unfill, and totally lost restriction. That's better than losing the band though!

It took me a year to get to my "sweet spot"

YAY i got a fill today.... finally... i got 1.3cc's lower than his usual fills... hopefully its good!!!:rolleyes2: