valley_girl16

I can eat just about anything I want, so here’s what I’m confused about. If food doesn’t pass through the band immediately, then it stays in the upper stomach, right? For me, that creates terrible pain and pressure that comes in waves. If I chew well enough that it goes through, then I can eat almost as much as I did before. If food goes through, how is it that you end up eating a third? My options appear to be two: drop right through or get stuck. I don’t get it. Plus, I have found that MOST foods go through without a problem—chicken, fish, beef, sausage, pizza, Beans, vegetables, salad, white bread and rolls, etc. I just chew them up, and they drop right through. I can eat almost as much as I want. Isn’t food (ideally, one third the former amount) supposed to stay in the upper stomach without pain so I’m full on much less? Isn’t that the whole point? I’m very frustrated and confused. Can anybody help?

OK, then what's the difference between feeling "full" and feeling like something is stuck? I think maybe the pain I'm having is from food getting stuck, which means I'm never getting the "full" feeling y'all keep referring to. That means I need more fill. It's just that 2.2 for a first fill is quite big, and that fill was only two weeks ago. I surely should have felt something . . . If the band is restricting the way its supposed to, you get this "full" pressured feeling, but not pain, right?