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I've had my band for six months, and I've lost 56 pounds so far with 6 cc's in a 10cc band. My loss has slowed dramatically the last few weeks, and I've been quite hungry, and able to eat a LOT more than I could a few months ago. So, get a fill, right? On Wednesday I got .5 cc in my band, and about 12 hours later I could not swallow my spit, nothing - I was completely closed off. I went in first thing Thursday morning and had just that .5 cc removed. Now I feel even looser and hungrier than before. We took the kids out for pizza for dinner on Saturday, and I was able to eat the crusty part at the end! I haven't been able to eat bread in seven months - and I don't want to!

So my question is this - this doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, that I'm half a cc of saline away from being completely closed off, but able to eat literally anything. Nothing gets stuck, everything just slides down. Has anyone else been in this position? Should I try getting a tiny little fill, maybe .2 cc? That seems like such a tiny amount that it hardly seems worth bothering with, but where I am right now isn't going to fly. I've lost only three pounds in the last month, and I was losing at a solid 10 pounds a month for a long time.

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Yes, I have seen people post who now only get fills of .25ccs or even .1cc. It sounds like your band just needs to be tweaked a little bit.

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You probably shouldn't have had all of your previous fill taken out. Half may have done it for you. Good luck with that.

I've had my band for six months, and I've lost 56 pounds so far with 6 cc's in a 10cc band. My loss has slowed dramatically the last few weeks, and I've been quite hungry, and able to eat a LOT more than I could a few months ago. So, get a fill, right? On Wednesday I got .5 cc in my band, and about 12 hours later I could not swallow my spit, nothing - I was completely closed off. I went in first thing Thursday morning and had just that .5 cc removed. Now I feel even looser and hungrier than before. We took the kids out for pizza for dinner on Saturday, and I was able to eat the crusty part at the end! I haven't been able to eat bread in seven months - and I don't want to!

So my question is this - this doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, that I'm half a cc of saline away from being completely closed off, but able to eat literally anything. Nothing gets stuck, everything just slides down. Has anyone else been in this position? Should I try getting a tiny little fill, maybe .2 cc? That seems like such a tiny amount that it hardly seems worth bothering with, but where I am right now isn't going to fly. I've lost only three pounds in the last month, and I was losing at a solid 10 pounds a month for a long time.

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