Slimming - Try to keep it down or let it come back up?

[barbie1978 22]

In reference to losing some cc's...my doc said that it was normal to lose some saline occasionally inbetween fills..NOT a lot...but like .25-.5 can happen....this had no reference to vomiting or PB-ing....

As far as sliming and being stuck..it's happened to me on ly a few times....Bread is a NO-NO for at least 4 months post op because it expands in your stomach and that can hurt the band...nevermind the fact that it's dry as hell and THAT hurts...

I hate bringing anything up...and even with sliming nothing has come up. I've felt like it might, but it never has....i'm a believer that if it's going to come up, it will. So be it...but if it's not and i just have to wait for it to pass...it sucks but that's what you have to do...

***you should be on liquids for the rest of the day after a fill....AND if you get anything stuck..let yourself heal. The last time something got stuck (because i started rushing and took too big of a bite AND had one bite too many), i was on liquids the rest of the day and mushies for 2 days after....i could tell i was swollen and wanted to be really careful. SF popsicles and Italian Ice were lifesavers!

[Jachut 487]

I dont have that much control over my body, lol. Either I'm going to slime painfully and it goes away or I'm going to pb and I cant stop that happening either. I dont have the choice to "let it come up". It either will or wont.

But I have gotten better at it, I think I instinctively fought it early on and i have never in my life made myself vomit to "feel better" and probably couldnt do it even if I tried. But I can relax and let a pb happen and it happens more quickly with less resistance these days.

Oh golly, that sounds suspiciously disordered doesnt it? Only another bandster would understand.

[lipstix64 1]

UMmmm i dont no how i lost saline. i went to the dr. i had 3 ccs in when she did a fill she said i only have 2 and a half in. that i must have lost half. then she asked if ive thrown up and i said yea and she said that may have cause it. i realized its a closed thing but it happened... i have noooo idea how[/QUOT

Hey, Im in Yorktown, neighbor, and went White plains for my Surgery. Dr Cerabona. Can I ask what doc told u that? Thats strange and Ive never heard of it either.:w00t: