Even though I've been losing weight, I wasn't feeling any restriction. I could pretty much eat however much and whatever I wanted to. I was just controlling my portions, but the lack of restriction left me open to a couple of bad food choices like a handful of Fritos and sharing some popcorn with my wife. These are things that I shouldn't have been able to eat easily, but they were no problem.

Rather than let my couple of bad choices snowball into a string of bad choices, I elected to have my second fill today, 4 weeks after my first fill. I've got a 9 cc Realize band and already had 4 cc of saline in it from fill #1.

The NP didn't have any trouble locating the port or hitting it with the needle. She drew out 3 cc of the existing saline then added it back with 1 more on top. I guess that brings me to 5.

I was burping when I swallowed Water at the Dr's office and she thought that she might have me a little too tight. I am drinking OK now (4 hours later), but still burping a little and I can really feel the restriction. Hopefully this will get me to my "sweet spot", if I can ever figure out where that actually is. I know that it's a moving target, but hopefully I'll know it when I get there, so I can gauge when I need how much of a fill.

Bryan

Banded 8-26-08

Edited October 21, 200817 yr by BDS_Geologist
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i went for my second fill but dr told me i have good restriction with 2.5cc hes said feeling bloated and burping is part of restriction so i have to wait till dec23rd hopefully ill get one then i lost 10 pds in between my first fill and my next appt also woke up and lost 2 pds

I was really tight when I first had my fills. It seems to loosen up as the weeks go by. I have had two fills, the first was really tight for about 1.5 weeks, then it loosened up. By my second fill I was getting really hungry. I have been pretty tight with this one and it seems to be working fairly well. I hope it doesn't get loose! My doc said to call in and get my next fill as soon as I was not feeling full when I ate. That was pretty nice - I won't have to wait a set amount of time!

Help, I am confused. I got my first fill on 8 Oct. I am at 4cc in a 10cc band. I have been experiencing a lot of things getting stuck and it hurting and have had one episode of PBing. Sometimes I can eat a LOT of food at one sitting and other times even the littlest piece of well chewed food feels like it is stuck and I stop eating because I am afraid of more getting stuck. So sometimes I feel like I need a fill but then other times I feel like I need to be loosened a little. How do you know when you have hit your "sweet spot"?