Fill Question

[MissBS 3]

Hi. I hope you all are doing well and had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! I have a question for those of you who have had fills. I often read about people who are very tight right after a fill and then their band gets looser. Is there anyone, besides me, who felt nothing right after a fill.... like for a week or two and THEN began to feel restriction. It seems kinda backwards... and I am a little bit strange... but... anyone know what I am talking about?? Becky

[RestlessMonkey 7]

Hi MissBS! I only have 3 cc's in a 14cc band so don't really have much of any restriction yet. But what you're describing is pretty normal, I think. Not sure why it happens but originally I thought once the initial swelling that can happen when the stomach is agitated (like for a fill) goes down, it can take up to about 2 weeks to really "feel" a "fill". Unless you're too tight from the start, I think it takes a while to settle in and really "restrict".

Edited November 28, 2008 by RestlessMonkey

[HeatherO 7]

Mine is like that. I seem to have a sensitive stomach where restriction can actually change depending on factors other than the latest fill. I went for many, many, many months on my second fill and sometimes it would be very tight, very loose, just right and everything in between.

Time of the month, stress levels, and many other variables can be at play. You can be sure that you are not the only "backwards" person out there, lol. I guess I am a little "backwards" myself.

[Jachut 487]

I tend to feel immediately a bit tighter, enough to lose a pound or so over the following three or four days. Then it disappears and kicks in again at about 10 days. Same pattern after every fill.