Calling all snails...

[ElfiePoo 109]

Holy mackerel! I had another fill on Thursday, taking me up to 8.5cc in a 12cc band and had a crash course in sliming!

My fill was at 8:15. At noon, I ate about 1 oz of edam cheese and 1 oz of genoa salami and I was full. No problems eating it. At 5 p.m. I put 1 cup of beef stew into a bowl and ate just a tad more than 1/2 cup. The last bite of potato did me in. I wasn't stuck...but was apparently 'stuffed'. I was not paying attention to my body but to the '1 cup' (which apparently I can no longer eat...at least for the moment)

For the next 30 minutes, I slimed enough to make a snail envious. I finally leaned over the weight basket and belched...loudly...several times. On the last belch, a small amount of food shot out and things settled back to normal...but Holy Hannah! That was the most miserable 30 minutes of my life!

Needless to say I'm going to be a bit more cautious and pay attention to what my body is saying, rather than the quantity of food.

The silver lining to all of this is that we're going to visit my son this weekend (he's in the army but finishing up his bachelor's in the U.P.) and I baked a gingerbread cake (his favorite) to take to him. No worries now about being tempted to eat it cuz I know that puppy will get stuck with one teensy bite.

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Edited February 5, 2010 by ElfiePoo

[thinin10 0]

I am so glad you mentioned the slime thing. What IS that. I urp a LOT...think I'm a bit too tight but ok with that part right now but...1/2 the time I urp up slime- sometimes it's like a raw egg white.. that dense and large. Does the body just produce more mucus to help digest?

I have noticed though... If I get in a lot of Water in- that I don't tend to get "stuck"as easily.

I also think sometimes I think I'm stuck when actually I'm full and the food is just passing...frankly I never feel comfortable when the food is passing... at a minimum it feels like it does when the dr.reaspirates me during a fill.. that bizzare tickle tummy feeling- roller coaster feel.

Is anybody else experiencing that?

[Queen Fig 0]

I can't really eat much of anything comfortably right now. I think it's a combo of my band being a hair too tight AND my period is due tomorrow and that seems to make things even tighter. I slimed all last evening. I was hungry, but couldn't find anything compatible with my band. So, I ended up with a Protein Shake and will do that for the next couple of days. If my band doesn't loosen up by the end of the month at my next appointment, I might have the doc take a hair out. I hate to have any removed, but I would also like to eat comfortably at some sort. Maybe I will lose enough weight that it will loosen on its own. Slime on!:sifone:

[illuminationlady 7]

There's a fine line here between true restriction and being too tight! And I'm far from either. Best wishes slimers!!!

[prgb 0]

At my last fill I got a total 4.8 in my band. After a few days, liquids were gurgling in my chest and I had lost 6 lbs in four days which is a ton for me,(I lose slowly) so I had to go back to the dr. and he removed .2 cc and within a few days I felt better. I was kind of upset to take out Fluid but I realized that being too tight isn't the answer. We have to learn to live with our band, each at our own rate, it is not a race to the end but a process of regaining our health.