Staying hungry after my first fill

[Shirley V 0]

I had my first fill and not knowing how I should fell I assumed I had enough fill. I left the office and once home ate dinner. I noticed I hate more than I had over the past 6 weeks. I had my first fill 4 days ago and have called the doctors office every day and they keep telling me I should feel hungry and to eat.......HUM I just paid a lot of money to not eat as mush.

I am eating solid foods such as fish but 15 - 20 min's later I am hungry again

After hours of calling a doctors office that doesn't listen to what I am saying I am now looking for somewhere to do a fill for me

[christine1182 48]

I am working on my second fill and I am justing starting to feel full a little bit longer than what I was. On my first fill they put in 4cc...I could eat anything I wanted and did not feel any restriction. I went yesterday for my second fill and they put in 3cc...This morning at Breakfast I could tell a difference, so that made me very happy. Just give it time....

[LarraineM 6]

Be insistant with your needs ! Demand another fill. you are the only one who knows what your restriction is

[jalomum 1]

You have to go slow. If you go fast and are too tight you bring everything back up, this causes swelling and then they have to take extra fill out to allow the swelling to go down. One step forward and 2 back if you rush and you pay for the un-fills as well.

When you have had you band longer then you will know how much you need. Knowledge is power :-)

Slow down, learn.

[Veronda 30]

It's been about two months since this original post, but I wanted to share that I did not have any restriction until my THIRD fill, so feeling none at the first is fine. It's frustrating, but remember that bandsters can expect to lose weight for up to three years after surgery, so there is plenty of time to get it right. After my first fill, I was supposedly at 5cc, but when I went back saying I had even less restriction than post-op, pre-fill, and it turned out when my surgeon took out the Fluid to measure, there were a full 2cc less in there than was supposed to be. It's my belief that the needle slipped out of the port and saline was injected under my skin as I had a huge bruise for weeks over my port. I still had almost no restriction after my second fill because they start filling more slowly after the first...I only noticed food getting stuck more easily. At my third, very tiny fill, I finally had restriction...but even then I could still eat more than others I knew with the band. It's a very personal thing, so there's no way to get it right without some adjusting...but that's one of my favorite things about the band! Hopefully by now things have begun to improve.

[kpdgal 0]

I didn't notice a restriction until a few days after my fill each time I had one.. (I have had about 6 over my 1st year). Not sure what your doctor instructs, but on fill days, I was not allowed to eat solids. only liquids on a fill day so your stomach can recover from the fill... after day 2 and throughout the week I would notice a slight tightness, but it wasnt really until fill 4-6 that I felt serious restriction, so it was basically baby steps in my experience in weight loss...But still quite happy with my progress!! Hope u continue with success