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Hi everyone! How are your fills going? How often do you need to go back? How do you feel right afterwards and a few days afterwards? My doctor only puts in about .7 each time so I am already on my third fill (I have 2.4 in a 10cc band) My first two fills were great for the first day, maybe two, but after a few days it was like they never happened! So I have gone in every two and a half to three weeks. This most recent one (three days ago) really has me feeling some good restriction - for the first time since the initial swelling I actually feel like I have a lap band! So hopefully I can get a good couple of weeks out of this one! How about you??

Hi everyone Glad to hear everyone is doing so well! I just got my second fill today and man did I need it!! I lost seven pounds in the three weeks since my last fill, but the last week or so I feel like I have been eating everything in sight! Now i have 1.7cc's in a 10cc band and I feel pretty tight right now! Scheduled another fill for 2-3 weeks out, so we will see how it goes!

Hi everyone! THis is a very inspirational thread! I am wearing a size 18 jeans today - nearly three sizes smaller than back in january! (Before surgery I was squeezing myself in to my 22's each day and rally should have gone to 24's, just couldn't bring myself to!) And an 18/20 shirt instead of 26/28!! YEAH!!

I wish my "rewiring" was for things I should avoid! Unfortunately for me, since my surgery I can no longer stand the taste of milk!! Strangest thing. I used to love a nice glass of cold milk and now I can even taste the "ickiness" as the little ones in my family call it in pudding I am so sensitive to it! Strange!

Hi everyone! Glad to see some folks checking in! I tend to spend more time on Sparkpeople.com nowadays where I can track my food and join challenges etc. I am down about 34 pounds. I had my first fill about 2 weeks ago -- I have 1cc in a 10 cc band. I have lost about 6 pounds since my fill so I am pretty happy with it. (The last three weeks before my fill I hadn't lost ANY weight!!) Knocking on wood b/c I have not yet had any sliming incidents - have found a few foods that are painful going down, but only for a few seconds. I will stay away from the, but pretty mch everything else is fine. Just eating WAY less than I used to and satisfied with it!! I was finally cleared for all physical activity at my fill in early march, but have been sick as a dog with a cold/sinus thing that won't go away so no gym for me yet. I am starting to feel better so I WILL start back at the gym the end of this week!!!

Oopps! Meant this to be a reply to someone, not it's own post! Sorry!!

Hi there -- I don't think I can answer all of your questions but I wanted to relay to you something my doctor told me about straying too far from the post-op diet that REALLY helped me. I am big on LOGIC an dunderstanding WHY I have to do as I am told! I tend to get defensive when told to do somethign whithout a good reason -- lik ewhen I felt as if I could eat anything not long after surgery.... why do I have to stay on this restrictve diet.... here was his answer! Right now your stomach is helaing from surgery!! You may be ABLE to eat whatever you want, but you can't -- when you eat solid foods, or too much fat, your stomach has to work to digest that food. While your stomach is digesting, one thing it does is contract (like any other muscle when it is working) If you cause your stomach to contract too much too soon you risk disturbing the stitches (from where they took some of the stomach and stretched it over the band and secured it in place) and band placement in general. Ther are mor ethings to worry about then just stretching your pouch. You have to eat lightly and things that are already "mushed" (like, already chewed, not to be gross) so that the digestion will be as easy as possible on your stomach for the next few weeks while it heals. Hope that helps? It always helps me to have a mental image!

Thanks ofr posting this! What ended up being the problem??

Hi everyone! I know we are still supposed to be experiencing "port pain" still, but is anyone feeling stabbing, burning, ripping pain?? It is not all the time, but when I stand up, bend, sometimes even when I just adjust in my chiar I get this type of pain in about a 4inch square area on my lower right of my stomach. Is anyone else's pain this bad?? Hopefuly???

Would you mind sharing with us what your mentor told you about PB'ing? I have a very base knowledge of it and would love more info. My doctor did not mention this at all, i am just picking things up here and there about it! Thanks!!

If I could make a suggestion -- I have found a lot of valuable information by going to the december 2008 banders forum instead of the jan '09 all the time. I read their posts and it gives a lot of insight. Most of them have already had their first fills so it might be a good idea to go read their posts for some insight! It has been great for me to "read ahead" from people who are a few weeks ahead of me in this process! Hope it will work for you too!

I Guess I should edit the topic here -- I meant what stage does your doctor have you in for the thrid week after surgery, not what "diet" you will be using. Thanks everyone for your feedback so far!!!

Hi there! Were you able to eat the bun too? I was banded on the 15tha nd last week I was at a hockey game and had just a bite of my husband's hot dog. The bun made me feel so uncomfortable for quite awhile afterwards! I couldn't imagine eating a whole bun! Maybe I didn't chew it well enough? That does seem to be my issue sometimes.