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Well I'm about 2 weeks post op. I've had my staples removed and boy was that a relief.

What I find strange is that from day one, I have felt "satisfaction" at the end of a 1/2-1 cup meal. I am still on "mushies" and am very careful with what I eat. I make sure to get my 60-70 grams of Protein. I take my Vitamins daily including a B-12 sublingual. I am very bad at remembering my Calcium, but tend to eat alot of calcium items (cottage cheese, cheese, 1%milk etc) so I think I'm not doing too much damage there. (could be wrong)

So my question, my worry, is will this go away? I'm not doing "bandster hell" and worried that with my ease so far this is going to come crashing down on me. In the hospital the doc said I was "very snug" and I can still feel things going through the band (like my pills I have to swallow etc). Could I still be swollen at this point? I have no more pain anywhere, not even with a sneeze or cough.

So far I LOVE my band. I don't want that love to go away. :)

Nicole

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The reason doctors wait 6 weeks before your first fill is because it takes about that long for all the swelling to go down. I felt a difference in my appetite about 5 wks out or so. I am sure everyone is different my doctor said he had one patient who didn't need his first fill for 5 months. Good luck!

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You may just be one of the lucky ones who don't go through bandster hell. I am happy to say that I am in that category...I was banded December 2nd and, like you, felt some restriction from the beginning. So far, I am losing consistently and haven't had any fills - when I asked my surgeon about it he just said that some people do feel restriction from the start and he finds that those people can lose the weight without a lot of fills. That said, I do track all of my food intake to make sure I am getting enough calories and Protein - initially I wasn't eating enough because I just didn't feel hungry and this caused my weight loss to stall for a couple of weeks. Once I started making sure I was eating around 1,000 calories a day I started losing again.

Good luck!!:D

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