Just wondering how many cc's gave you restriction?

i also have a 14cc band, and i went in for my 2nd fill. I know i barely have anything in there bc the dr made a remark abt how i don't have much in there. I haven't felt any restriction. But i follow my food list and eat 3 meals of 4 ozs a day and No snacking. I'm wonderin if i'm wired weird. Bc i'm actually kinda scared of feeling the restriction. I've heard if you get to much, you'll burp up that spit like stuff and it hurts like hell. Hmmmmmmm....

I just got another fill and am up to 10cc's. It was only 2 days ago and boy do it feel it. I didn't even get a chance to eat breakfast this morning - I took an asprin, then my chewable multi=vitamin when it felt like it was getting stuck. Then I took a bite of egg and that was it!! I was 'stuck" and after much dry heaving & finally vomiting - I was wiped out! I stayed on liquids the rest of the day just to be safe. This was my first time actually vomiting in the 5 months since I've been banded.

I have often wondered what happens when you have a 14 cc band or a 10cc band and reach the maximum on fills but are not losing weight and are following your program... do they re-band you again and start all over? It sounds like a dumb question but at soon to be 40 and already 2cc's doing the math by everyone else's fill schedules I should be "full- 14cc's" in a few years or so..... What then?

theres some guy on this site he has over 14cc in his 14 cc b and,he said his dr said its safe.

It will be two years on Nov 14, since I was banded and I only have 5.5cc. in my band and I have plenty restriction. I am still losing weight.:purplebananna:

Yes my band is a 14cc. Everytime I try to go beyond 5.5cc, I get so sick to the point, where I can't eat or drink.

I got my band November 26, 2008. I got my first fill Jan 12, second Feb 26, third April 2, and my fourth last Thursday May 14. I have a 14cc band, and in my third fill I was at 8cc's, and I had restriction and could tell if I did not chew something up really good and I was always getting hungry between meals and could eat more. When I went in for my fourth fill, I went up to 10cc's. I know that you are swollen some after an adjustment and I am usually fine within 4 or so days, but this time it's not like that at all. I haven't been able to eat in a week, have lost 11lbs since last Thursday, I threw up water yesterday because I took too big of a drink. I am headed back today to have some taken out. I have never done this before, how much do they normally take out? I think I want to go down to 9cc's and see how that does. Any advice?

It's good that you are going to have some taking out, because last year in April, I was hospitalized, because my band was too tight, so tight that I was dehydrated. This went on for three days, before I went to the hospital. I had to have my band completely unfilled for one month. I have a 14cc band, with 5.5cc in it.

I think I was at the point that I was VERY close to being hospitalized. I didn't realize until after my unfill how dehydrated I was. It was taking me all day to drink a 16oz bottle of water. I told her that I wanted to go down to 8.5 or 9 cc's, and she told me that she had to put me at 6.5 cc's, because my stomach was inflamed and irritated, that it would feel like I was at 8 cc's and to come back in 3 weeks and she would fill me some more. I could drink as much as I wanted as soon as I left and I could eat, I hadn't been able to eat in a week!!! I feel soooooo much better today it's unreal. :thumbup:

I'm glad you listen to your band.

I have not been able to eat much since I got the 10cc's in my 14 cc band but since I'm not having any problems with fluid - I'm not touching it!! The only think I'm doing different is usually my fill appointments are every 4 weeks - since I'm so tight right now - my next appointment will be 7 weeks after the last one.

I am at 8ccs and think I might be there...

I just got my second fill yesterday and he said it was 1.8cc. The first one was 1 cc. He said that the 1.8 cc was a very "aggressive" fill so stay on liquids for three days. Now I read that some of you have 6 cc's or 8 cc's and still feel no restriction? I'm wondering now. How much is a cc!

That doesnt seem like a big fill to me,my first was 2 cc well almost each one was 2cc at a time,just make sure u follow the liquids after,i cheated the first few times,i could eat right after when i got to 7cc i tryed it was sick for awhile after that fill,its 7 months now and i have 9 cc in a 14 cc and the fill is just great,i eat just real small amounts and im full,im not gonna go back for another fill till i can eat more amounts,hopefully i wont have to for awg hile i canceled my last appt,because it seems im ok for now,dont want to over due it,as the fills get more just be careful to follow that liquids 2 days soft 2 days then food,i made the mistake that one fill,and felt sick for weeks,i then understaood why my dr had me do that,gl

He must be being very conservative with his fills. I do feel a little restriction now that I did not have before because one protein shake fills me up. I was pigging out so bad before, almost as bad as before surgery! I've been on liquids for two days and I may try to eat a little bit later tonight and see how it feels. So goes the battle!!