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Wow reading your story is quite concerning to me, I'm coming up on my first fill next week and I dont want to be vomiting all the time and having such difficulty with the little we get to actually eat. Was that mainly due to the fact you weren't able to go back for a Unfill sooner than[2 months? I've only had 1 getting stuck episode but believe me when I say I dont want that pain again quote name=Acadia' timestamp='1306458972' post='1618638] Because there are a lot of posts about how much of a fill to get, if X ccs is a normal size fill, if getting X ccs removed will help, etc. I wanted to start a board about people's experiences when they had 1 cc or less too little or too much in their band and what a difference that fill or unfill did for them. My experience was that I started around 2 cc in my band (passive surgical fill), my first fill was done six weeks after surgery and was 1.5 cc. With 1.5 ccs I went from being able to eat anything to getting stuck on some rice, some Pasta, and not being able to eat pizza or bread easily. Then on March 23 I had 1 cc added, I went from being able to eat 1-2 cups of food down to eating 1 tsp - 2 Tbsp per meal and throwing up almost every day. Unfortunately, due to billing discrepancies, I wasn't able to get an unfill until two months later (May 24). Every day was horrible. I had no energy, couldn't eat, couldn't take my Vitamins the entire time, barely got half of my fluids in, a portion of my Protein. I dreaded eating but also wasn't very hungry most of the time, but if I was, I was starving and resorted to Chai Soy Milk because it was easy to drink, stayed down, and had a good amount of protein, some fat (very little), and sugar so I had some energy. I had to force myself to vomit almost every day because everything got stuck - even soup got stuck some days. Granted I lost 10 lbs during those two months but I ate soup, protein shakes, soy milk, ice cream, Popsicles, Cheetos (they are mostly air), and popcorn (also mostly air). I only ate small amounts but I ate food that truly wasn't good for me and that I didn't want to eat but I did because those were the only things that would go down and stay down. I'll be going back around June 23 for a 0.5 cc fill and that should bring me to the perfect level. So I can tell you that 1 cc can make a difference. And 0.5 cc can make a huge difference. And if you're too full, go in, ask them to remove 1 cc - it may be all you need. I'm sure there are others with stories about even less that took them from almost there to perfect and from horrible to perfect.