I had a fill on Tuesday, at the time I had lil restriction as to how much I could eat and I could not do bread. After the fill, I have none whatsoever!! I can gulp water and could not before....I ate a normal size plate of food without problems....Has this happened to anyone else? I know it takes time for the fill to kick in but I lost all I had and getting hungry....:thumbup:

hi trenya - i was just banded on 11/14/08 and i went for my 2nd fill on monday and after going on liquids for 24 hours like i was told i then ate a cup of chicken salad and was not full so i called the surgeon office and the fill nurse sd that she thought maybe i might have stretched my pouch - she sd to go on liquids for a week to shrink it back down again - she was not helpfull at all to me though and i found out about a site to go into from my chat buddies here - *** 5daypouchtest.com **** it gives you a specific menu to follow for 5 days to shrink your pouch back down again. and you should never ever ever eat bread - if you had been eating bread you may very well have stretched your pouch. I would like to find out what you did about this and how it helped you or if your surgeons office was any help to you with this problem because i am going through same thing right now and my surgeons office is of no help whatsoever. Hope you will go into my profile and become my friend and keep in touch with me - maybe we can help each other out with this. also chat room is very helpful too:)

I would call the doctor back, maybe he/she can have you come in and check your Fluid level to make sure everything is OK. Did they do the fill under fluoro? They could do that to check your band and your pouch.

I disagree on the bread thing. There is no set rule that food tolerance is the same for everyone, lots of people here can eat bread.

Edited January 30, 200917 yr by Jodi_620

I had that after my second fill. It was like there was nothing I couldn't eat.

So yeah, it happens. As soon as you can, go in. After that second fill, I waited a month, without losing a pound. I should have gone back much sooner.

I have now had a total of 4 fills, and am well back on track. But you've got to keep up with those things. Check it out.