Wow, my doctor would never put that much in at once. Be careful what you eat. I did talk my doctor into giving me a full cc and 24 hours later I was back there getting .8cc out. I could not even get a shake down. It was awful. I have 5.7 cc now and doing good with it but be careful what you eat for a few days because it does swell up and you get even tighter and then you can't even swallow your own spit. I hope for the best for you.

Judy

Surprisingly i still havent had a stuck episode and its still easy for me to swallow my own spit. My doctor fills us up until its comfortable for us to swallow easily. He lets the patient decide when they have been filled enough.

That is great. I am kind of lucky where I have only had 2 stuck items. I have heard that a lot of people have one at least once a week. Guess we are eating the right foods. Keep up the good work and you will have new name ........ Yound and thin.......

Judy

i need a fill so bad, just got banded 3weeks ago and i have no restriction at all and i gain 2lbs. i really feel bad but i wont let that stop me im going to call the doctors office every day to try to get in sooner that 7/29

I had 5cc put in my band the first time I had a fill back last December. The first few weeks were very tough to learn how to eat, slow and chew. I had multiple stuck episodes with slimming until I learned what went down well and what times of the day. On my second fill in May, the put in 1.8 and it did not go so well. The doctor didn't really want to do a fill but I insisted. I had really slowed down on my weight loss and I could pretty much eat anything and was hungry between meals. I was still losing but it was because I monitored every morsal I placed in my mouth and sometimes went to bed hungry and frustrated. After my second fill I had to have .8 removed within 48 hours, I was unable to even take in water and had to sleep sitting up because of severe reflex and vomiting. since my fill in may I have lost about 10-12 lbs. I say 10;12 because 2 lbs keeps coming back and going off. I eat 3 meals a day and average about 900-1000 calories. I am not hungry between meals now but night times are still hard for me not because I am hungry so much but because I associate evening time, TV and movies with snacks. I some times have 1oz of nuts or 100 calorie bag of air popcorn and that satisfies the fat girl inside. My point of telling you this is, we are all different, some of us can do with a little fill, some have to have more fills until we reach the spot that helps us to loss weight. Losing weight is truly one of the hardest jobs I have had in my life, I have had my own emotional struggles with how this band is going to work for me, but I think until I really realized that I myself had to make some changes in how I viewed foods and eating I was never going to make the long haul I needed to get off all this weight. You being young have a lot of obstacles being thrown your way every day. We are such a social society and a lot of our activities evolve around food. We use food to celebrate, food to comfort and food to reward. This has been branded into us since we were all very young. So listen to your body, work hard at not snacking and grazing and eating on 3 meals a day. Exercise at least 30 minutes daily. Most weight loss patients that are the most successful develop a structured exercise program within their first year. I know you really want this or you would not have went through everything to get to this point. Write an affrimation on your mirror in the bath room or on your fridge that you see every day. Mine is "I will be successful and below it is a picture of me at my heaviest. Now if that is not enough to make me not want to eat nothing will. Good luck and keep us posted on your progress.