ok so this happens to me a lot...Ill take a bite of anything usualy band friendly and ill feel so tight. then i sit and wonder hmm ok ill take an even smaller bite.. and still ill feel super tight and get very frustrated especially if im sitting with people. after about 15 or 20 min of "struggeling" i can eat no problem! i can pick on ppls leftovers because everyone is doen by the time i can actualy eat.. im not too tight because I can eat.. but only after i play this very difficult test of my patience game!

whats this about? does anyone know why this happens? shouldn't i feel tight or "full" only after I eat?

let me know if anyone can help..

ive had my band for just 3 months and im trying to learn.

Thanks

Thanks for posting hmarko. The weird thing about this is that I'm not a new bandster. I never had first bite syndrome until two months ago! And I'm really not overfilled. I'm a 1.8 and, before the baby, I was at a 3.0. It's very frustrating, however, and I feel like I can't get fills because of it.

Question for you: Do you mean you time 30 seconds to two minutes between EVERY bite? Or is this just after the first bite?

Thanks for posting hmarko. The weird thing about this is that I'm not a new bandster. I never had first bite syndrome until two months ago! And I'm really not overfilled. I'm a 1.8 and, before the baby, I was at a 3.0. It's very frustrating, however, and I feel like I can't get fills because of it.

Question for you: Do you mean you time 30 seconds to two minutes between EVERY bite? Or is this just after the first bite?

Now the first bite thing stopped since I time. So I chew for about 30 seconds then either on the pc or my iphone I set the stopwatch the doc told me after i swallow to wait 30 seconds before I take another bite. Thats the minimum - at work i do stuff so it can take longer. This is a cool site if you work and eat at your desk... online-stopwatch.com/

This thing keeps changing as you see :biggrin: So what they were saying was first bite may have been eating too fast I'm thinking but the hot drink before does really help also. They told me that too.

Same here! I struggle with several bites and after LOTS of burping I can then eat, very weird. I did assume everyone was experiencing it too,hench the reason for not asking. I haven't been on in sometime now so thought I'd jump start myself again! I have been at a standstill for some time however I do NOT need a fill, I am behaving badly with the no no's, I can't help it I am still grieving the loss of my son and the garbage food goes down easier than the real food. I am trying to get back on track now, I just finished the last piece(bite sized)of chocloate in the house.

Same here! I struggle with several bites and after LOTS of burping I can then eat, very weird. I did assume everyone was experiencing it too,hench the reason for not asking. I haven't been on in sometime now so thought I'd jump start myself again! I have been at a standstill for some time however I do NOT need a fill, I am behaving badly with the no no's, I can't help it I am still grieving the loss of my son and the garbage food goes down easier than the real food. I am trying to get back on track now, I just finished the last piece(bite sized)of chocloate in the house.

I'm so sorry about your loss! I don't know the details, but it breaks my heart just to hear it. I know how it goes to just eat the junkiest thing that goes down the easiest when things aren't right. Good luck! All I can say is that the suggestions people posted here have seemed to work pretty well! In fact, first bite syndrome seems to be going away slowly

I just posted about this same situation! I just got my 3rd fill on weds ...8cc total.The first two bites are a struggle and then its all good. My question is how can you all tell that you,ve had enough? Before, I could tell that I was full when the food suddenly feel like it was coming out of my throat. Now, it seems to be the reverse! Any suggestions?

-P

Go with the portion size if you are not getting any indicators...

some indicators could be any of the following:

-runny nose

-hiccup one or a few

-a sigh like ur done (I never had this one) but have had the first two.

I think there is one more but it is escaping me right now!