2nd Fill - food hurt initially - now eat anything

[avargas18 0]

I received my second fill on wed 09/15/2010. I was on a liquid diet for 48 hours and then introduced food. It was extremely difficult to eat - making sure I chewed enough, ate slow enough etc.

The first meal I ate, some of the food came up. I modified: more chew, eat slower.

Then I figured it was not the way I was eating so much as I needed to burp and it was painful. By the third day no food came up when I burped but I did have a bile like substance come up.

Then by day 6 - I ate very little but had little to no bile come up.

Now today - day 8 I feel like I could eat anything - it does not hurt anymore;less issues with gas and burping.

So... I want to know:

#1 Is this normal?

#2 If I am able to eat freely can I now cause band slippage?

#3 I am suddenly a lot more hungry - how much is psychological verus "there is no food in the stomach"??

#4 Is it normal to hurt and then suddenly everything is great?

Thanks,

:smile2:

[cwm812 11]

It's swelling, and now its gone...

After my last fill, I did liquids for 48 hours and then tried mushies. The only thing I could eat was chili. I called the doc and he told me to wait a week. As you get more in your band the post-fill swelling is more of a problem. He was right, after a week, I could eat again and everything was fine.

I don't know how big your fill was, but I tend to tolerate small fills much better. My stomach is very sensitive to this whole fill process.

Cindy

[BetsyB 9]

It's very normal for swelling to persist for a while after a fill, giving you a too-tight sensation. It sounds like you may have had a couple of stuck incidents, which can cause swelling to recur.

Once the swelling recedes, it's VERY common, after the first few fills, to feel totally unrestricted again. This will diminish with each fill, until you get to the right level of adjustment.

However, the swelling-after-fill and swelling-after-stuck phenomena will persist. So even after the fill that gets you to the sweet spot, you may feel too tight for a short while---then find that when the swelling recedes, VOILA! You're there :smile2: