I've been banded 5 years. Got to goal, got too tight, then had band emptied.
I am slowly refilling it. It does good until it hits 6 cc's. At that point fills are hell.
I had a fill Tuesday that brought me to 6.4 cc's. As I expected, my band is pretty irritated. This always happens for me. Post fill it can take 8 to 10 days before I can eat solid foods again.
It's not that there is too much Fluid in the band, it's just that my band/stomach swells up from the actual fill.
Does this happen to any of you?