hi,

banded april 20th.......1fill june...had to be unfilled 2 weeks later due to spinach getting stuck and would not go down.....had to wait a month...got filled friday july 24...at doctors office they make you drink Water after they put in so many cc's.....after refilled to what i was and another 2 cc's i could not shallow the water.....she took out i think abut 1/2 and i was fine, could shallow water great........but here is the problem have no restriction at all, but yet in doctors office could not tolerate what she put in..................

question....is that normal will restriction happen?????

so darned confused over this band.......

thanks,

You probably just need to build up your fills slowly little by little. Don't worry you will get there eventually, frustrating as it is.

same thing for me. What I understand - this is very "normal". Some people swell and some don't. Some swell right away (I do) and some do it later. they want it tight enough to control your pouch, but not so tight you can't eat/drink anything. So ---- it is a slow process.

My first fill was 3 cc's on July 3rd. wow - I could really FEEL the Water when I was drinking it. I was kind of scared - cuz I wasn't sure if it it was too tight or not. Dr. said it would loosen up. So I kept it as is, as I could drink liquids. He said I might need to be on liquids for a week. NOPE - by the next day, for sure 2 days out ----- I was back to no restriction. I was disappointed, but at the support group meeting the following week ---- all said it was normal and I probably wouldn't feel restriction until 6 or 7 cc's

I went back Friday 7/24 for my 2nd fill. He put in 2.5 cc's. wow! so I am drinking the water. I took probably 4 or 5 sips and then - bam! I am sliming like crazy. My eyes got big and I was scoping for the trash can. At least now I know what sliming is! and for water! yep ---- too tight!

He took out .5 cc's and I was good to go. amazing what a difference such a small amount can make. I am now at 5 cc's total. they told me the "average" is 7 cc's to be in the sweet spot, but that everyone is different and to be patient as we learn to work with it and adjust.

sigh!

Paisleypea - That's good to know about the 7cc average. I just had 2cc added on Thursday for a total of 6cc. I can feel the difference between the original 4 and now the 6 but still not quite there. I'm hoping that the next fill will put me where I need to be to start losing again. I've been maintaining, but haven't lost any since the first fill.

Even at my last fill up to 8 cc I couldn't tell any difference with the water at the doctor's office. I sipped it really slow. I could never tell until it was time to eat. I think that is so wonderful about our bands is that they are adjustable and we can make them work for us as things change.

thanks everyone fo replys.....i am only up to 4 cc's so have a ways to go.

thanks again

Everybody reacts differently to fills, I've had 2, and ended up getting a slight un-fill after both because I was too tight. The first time he unfilled me so I was at 2 cc and I didn't feel any restriction at all, the second time he took me from 4 to 3 cc's and I feel A LOT of restriction, probably too much really, such a slight change made a huge difference for me. I was worried at the second un-fill that I was going to go back to no restriction again, but that certainly wasn't the case this time. I've even canceled a fill I had set up for last week, because there is no way I could deal with more restricion right now, which is something I never thought I would say in the beginning!

It's also been my experience (and others' as well) that sometimes fills take a week to "kick in." I don't know why this is and it doesn't even make sense to me, but that's what I've experienced. I felt really tight immediately after my first fill in April - I could feel it in my throat, even. But after I did my two days of liquids, I went back to eating solids and I thought I didn't have enough (any) restriction. Then a few days later, it "settled" and I was able to feel PLENTY of restriction and have been good since then.

The Water test is just one test. When you mention a specific food getting stuck, I have to ask, did you chew properly, or is spinach always a problem?

I've also heard that saying "I hate the Steelers" over and over again helps the food go down. :crying:

hey bill,

go steelers!!!:smile2:

the spinach i ate got suck, because they think i did not chew well enough, but they also had never see something that would not go down for 3 days! so hence my luck!~

again thanks everyone for replys....still no restriction....my weight just not moving..........bummer!

hey bill,

go steelers!!!:smile2:

the spinach i ate got suck, because they think i did not chew well enough, but they also had never see something that would not go down for 3 days! so hence my luck!~

again thanks everyone for replys....still no restriction....my weight just not moving..........bummer!

3 days, you must have been miserable. I have a piece of chicken, I'm not sure how long it would have taken, but I manage to get it back up, took me an hour, but it was a very long hour.