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Mel, I had those problems at first and I found that drinking just plain hot water, no tea or coffee, just water helped to calm my chest pains. This was after I called my doctors office and verified that this was normal and I didn't need to go to the hospital MM357

Thanks Donna, I watch what I eat already, the problem is you could drink Water with prednisone and gain weight! I have difficulty walking because of some other problems, but I lost the 110 without exercise. As for WW.......if it worked for me, I wouldn't have needed a band. MM357

When you get enough Protein, the hunger goes away, so my advice it to increase the protein and stay away from the muffins. MM357

Hi all, I'm new to this forum. It's been a long time since I have sought help since I was banded. I had my band put in May 30, 2003, so I am 6.5 yrs out. I only had problems with a couple of overfills in the beginning. Everything went as planned. I lost 110 pounds in a year, which I was very happy with, UNTIL............. I have PMR (Polymyalgic Rhuematica) a condition that causes me such pain in my upper arms that I can't hardly move my arms to feed myself and it gives me severe temporal headaches. Unfortunately the cure for this requires large daily doses of prednisone over a LONG period of time. I've had this once before and the symptoms went away after a yr with treatments. It's been a year and a half this time and I'm still having symptoms when trying to wean off of prednisone. My problem is when I take prednisone, it irritates my stomach...........stomach swells............band is too tight.....no fill.....pill goes through...no stomach irritation, so I had to have all my fill taken out. I've been on this medication for a year and a half and have gained BACK 50 pounds! I need a fill..........I need my band to curb my eating...............I'm so down! I can't get the fill until I'm off the prednisone and right now it looks like I'm going to have to go the full 2 year recommendation for getting rid of this stupid PMR. Any words of encouragement? MrsMikey357