Wisegrl

I had my revision on Oct. 15. I have been on mushy soft foods going on my second week. I have been experiencing a sharp cramp on my left side after I eat. Does anyone know what this could be? Is it normal for this to happen right after surgery? I do not remember this happening when I had my first lapband. I am really worried that I may be doing something wrong because I have had to have this revision due to being too tight and I don't want to do anything to cause any problems this time around.

Anyone else having the same issue? Any advice?

I had the same problem to the point that I had to keep a plastic cup on my bed table to spit up in at night. I know that's gross, but you are too tight. I was unfilled for a month and then re-filled and I was fine.

I have the same problem with only being able to have .07 cc to .09 cc in a 3 cc band. If I go over that then I am too tight. Found that out by getting fill and unfill after another.

I have the same problem. Dialated this time last year and again a month ago. I can't afford a revision. Is this it for my pouch?

I have a question. I have e-mailed my doctor and I am not getting any response so I thought I would ask here. I have been getting a series of fills and unfills for the last two years with no weight loss. My band has been dialated twice. Once this time last year and again about a month and a half ago. A few weeks ago I got a fill from my pouch being completely unfilled for about a month. He put in .07 which is all I can handle from a 3 cc pouch. I am experiencing heart burn in the morning. Could I be to tight? I am not throwing up or anything like that and I do feel some restriction. Has anyone else experienced not having a large amount in a 3 cc band other than me? From the begining I have not been able to hold more than maybe 1cc or less of fluid in my band. Is this normal? I can't get an answer from my doctor. Is there anything esle I can do for my band?

Here is my story. I have been banded since 2005. For the past two years or so I have been messing with being too tight. I think I need a fill, go get one and almost always have to have an unfill. A few months go by and I gradually get more put back in. I think the issue is, I am not sure when I need a fill. How do you know when you have found your sweet spot? I went in for a fill yesterday because I have been hungry and have been able to eat almost anything. A barium swallow showed total blockage . The band is in the correct place but its stretched. So now for the second time I have to be unfilled for a month or maybe even more and then I get to go to the process again. Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong? I feel like a total failure. I have about 25 more pounds to lose and I am in this cycle of getting fills and unfills and dilated pouches.

I am going to get a fill in two weeks after being completely unfilled for two months due to a dialated pouch. If I am still swollen when I go for my fill, I will have to get surgery to get it repositioned. My question is what is the process of repositioning a band? How long is the recovery time involved? I ask because I work full time and I can't be off work for a long time. Does anyone know how much this costs? I am not sure if my insurance will cover it because I know they don't cover any type of weight loss surgery, so I may have to finance it. I have also been reading about people that are going from 4cc bands to 10cc bands. Will that help keep you from slipping to go to a bigger band? I don't understand that part. Thanks in advance for your help!

It's weird because on the occasions that I was too tight, I felt like I was fine the first couple of months. After about a week of choking and coughing at night, I had enough and went for an unfill. I am now finding out that you should not get too tight or wait too long if you are because I am on my second month of not being filled at all due to pouch dialation of being too tight and let me tell you it is not fun being hungry during the holidays. I may even have to get surgery to have it placed again if the swellling doesn't go down. Being too tight is NOT a good thing.

I have the same problem. My doctor called it a pouch dilation. I was told it was from being too tight for too long. I kept feeling like I needed a fill, so I would go and get one and then two months later I would get night regurgitation , night reflux and coughing when laying down. I would go for an unfill and then I repeated the fill/unfill senerio about two more times before I realized that I needed to just quit getting fills. The last time I went for an unfill they did a barium swallow and there was complete blockage so I was completely unfilled for a month. I went in after a month for a fill which was this past Monday and I am still dilated and swollen. I wasn't following the rules while I was unfilled. I just thought that since I wasn't filled I could just take it easy and eat what I wanted as long as I didn't over do it. Big mistake!!!!!!!! I gained 7 pounds and my pouch did not get much better. Now I have to wait another 4 weeks and I have to measure my meals to have 6 1/2 cup meals a day. I hope that my pouch is not to far gone to where I will have to have surgery to correct it, but if so, it is my fault. I am listening this time and doing what I am told, I just hope that it isn't too late. It is also awesome being unfilled during the holidays. My fault though.

I have trouble eating scrambled eggs also. No matter how much restriction I have, scrambled eggs just stay in my stomach pretty much half a day and makes me miserable. Deviled eggs on the other hand I have absolutely no problem with. I have never PB'd on them and they have never gotten stuck. The best way to tell is just to try them. There are days when I can eat certain things and other days I try to eat the same thing and cant. My band is very temperamental but I wouldn't trade it for the world!

I love the SF Kozy Shack Rice pudding! It tastes great and satisfies me. It's a quick dessert.:cursing:

Mine kicked in right after the first fill. But then again, I had alot of restriction for about the first four weeks before my first fill. Good Luck!