My only problem with being too tight is the sleep loss. Most of the things people mention here as negative side effects I actually enjoy:
1. The gurgling - I LOVE THIS. It not only entertains me, it also reminds me of my band, my weight loss, the fact that I am leaving the 2-steak, massive-bowl-of-Pasta, 2-hero, 2-pint-of-ice-cream fatass in the dust bin of the past one pound at a time. Gurgling puts a smile on my face, and sometimes makes me say "Yeah!"
2. The PB/sliming - I used to hate vomiting in my pre-band days. Somehow, I've gotten used to it. In fact, even my first PB was not unpleasant. It isn't good for you, and I do avoid it, but it is kind of neat to eat very little and then lose that as well... more weight loss!
The problem I've been having since the summer is that I've gotten too tight twice, and now I might be too tight for the third time. The strange thing is, I am able to eat and drink, even foods that are difficult, but I find myself burping all the time, which of course wakes me up at night, as my saliva comes up and then goes down the wrong way. I had it loosened after every incident, and then gradually tightened again, only to run into the same problem long before achieving adequate restriction.
The last time this happened, I got an esophagram to see what the band looked like when I had the burping problem, and the passage through the band was about as wide as a needle, and my pouch was twice the size it should be, yet I was able to drink and eat without PBing. A couple of weeks after going from 6ccs to 3ccs, the band and pouch were back to normal.
More strange: I was at 5ccs until yesterday morning, and I was quite unrestricted (able to eat a plate of food, sometimes quite a bit more). This restriction was "maintenance" level, meaning I wasn't gaining or losing weight. I added 0.5 ccs yesterday morning, and now I'm burping up saliva again, and I got very little sleep last night.
I can handle nausea, gurgling, PBing, not eating, but I cannot take more than a couple of nights with a couple of hours of sleep. So I'm going to give it a couple of more days, see if things settle down during the liquid/mush phase before taking any action.
