Just wondering if you always get offered a fill @ 4 weeks?? How do they know if you need one or do they just give you one?

My doc: If you are losing 1-2 pounds a week, no fill unless you agitate for one. If you are not losing, or are gaining, you get a fill.

Some doctors wait to give you your first fill until 6 0r even 8 weeks. It depends on the doc. Also, if you are losing and have good restriction, he/she may opt to wait a bit longer as well.

It all really depends on you and your doctor. You will find that everyone is going to be different.

I have learned in this to never be surprised by anything. I never surprised if I get a fill and never surprised if I don't.

I know that is not much help but it is best to be very very flexible when it comes to your band. Nothing seems to ever happen when you think it will and always seems to happen when you don't think it will.

I didnt. I was scheduled to see my surgeon at 6 weeks, which I did but I was losing fast and easily then so we both decided not to fill at that point. He told me to come in either in 4 weeks for a second check up and we would review then or to ring as soon as I felt I needed that fill.

After that, swelling etc subsided extremely quickly and within a week I was starting to be pretty hungry, although I still lost. From memory we brought the 10 week check up forward a week and I had a fill at almost 9 weeks. For a while after that I saw him at six weekly intervals and had a fill each time, although only small - like 0.2 ml and it gradually stretched out to much longer time frames.

At my doc's office, they weigh you, measure you, take your blood pressure and then talk to you. They ask how long you can go after a meal before you are hungry, how much you can eat at one meal, etc. Then they decide how much of a fill you need.

I actually just got my first fill yesterday and I'm only 3 weeks post op. I went in for my first post-op appt and he asked if I was getting hungry. I said yes and he said 'well we should give you a fill then'. It was uncomfortable as he said there was still liquid/swelling around the port but not painful and I"m doing fine with it so far. I actually wasn't expecting it at all as everything I've read said you usually don't get one until 6-8 weeks after surgery. Someone in my support group with the same surgeon has had 3 fills already and she had her surgery 3/24 (exactly a month before me)

my doctor would not do a fill for 3 months post op .due to the healing of the stomach. so she said...

Thankyou for all of your responses.

I actually just got my first fill yesterday and I'm only 3 weeks post op. I went in for my first post-op appt and he asked if I was getting hungry. I said yes and he said 'well we should give you a fill then'.

I DO feel full after I eat...but I am finding myself getting hungry now...so I'm thinking I might need a fill at my appointment. Is it normal to start getting hungry at 9days post op???? I hope so!