Hey everyone,

I'm new to this as I have only had the band for not quite a month yet. I am going in for my first fill on the 25th :cool2: I'm not sure what to expect... I've been sick lately so I have eaten hardly anything anyway, but...

What should I expect? How do you feel afterwards? What special things should I do and what should I avoid doing? Is there any exercise I should avoid (not that I've done any yet)?

Thanks! :huh2:

I've only had one, under fluro, but here's how it went.

No solid food 2 hours before the fill, I chose to do liquid that entire day just in case. My doc brings you in and stands you in position so that the xray is pointing at your port. I had the entire thing done standing up (for some reason this freaked me out) and its very quick.

He put the needle in (feels like a shot - not bad at all) and pushed the Fluid in (I couldn't even feel this part) and then tells me to take a gulp of barrium (didn't taste near as bad as hospital kind). Then the doc said, I'm done and out I go.

They have apple juice in the waiting area and ask you drink the entire cup (slowly) before you leave to make sure you can swallow liquid without trouble.

After the fill, it's 2 days liquid, 2 days soft food then back to normal.

My first was a breeze, but I was so nervous I actually felt a little unsteady standing in there. I though for one quick second that my knees might buckle, but they didn't and all that anxiety was for nothing, it was a breeze.

Going for my second fill on Friday. I'm looking forward to getting more restriction, although I still feel nervous. Silly me.

Good luck to you.

Hey everyone,

I'm new to this as I have only had the band for not quite a month yet. I am going in for my first fill on the 25th :cool2: I'm not sure what to expect... I've been sick lately so I have eaten hardly anything anyway, but...

What should I expect? How do you feel afterwards? What special things should I do and what should I avoid doing? Is there any exercise I should avoid (not that I've done any yet)?

Thanks! :huh2:

I had my first fill yesterday - and to tell you the truth I didn't sleep the night before because I was a little nervous - --OKAY A LOT NERVOUS - but it went very smoothly - I didn't even feel them put the needle in the port - My doc didn't use fluroscope - but he DID inject saline - had me drink Water as he was injecting it in-overfilled it - meaning that he waited until it backed up in my esophagus and then he let some out - slowly - until I felt comfortable with how the water was going down - he said that he didn't want the water to be "sluggish" at all - and then he had me take a big drink to confirm that it went down okay--- he ended up putting in 2.6 CC-which I was happy with - because I think that I will feel real restriction (I'm on day 2 of two day liquid diet so I can't really tell yet).... but I was very satisfied with how it went - and it was QUICK - I was in there no longer than 5-10 minutes

amazing...