Will I ever find proper restriction???

[zeniada 9]

Uggg.....

I am either too tight or too loose and never just right....

I got a fill back in Feb and I was doing so well up until this past week when BAM I'm too tight and all I can eat is soup! WTH!!!

I will PB or even throw up if I attempt solid food and get the worst heaves when I vomit...Is it more then just being too tight? could my band have slipped but why out of the blue? or is it just TOM symptoms...

So frustrated right now!!!

[spoiltmom 44]

I feel your pain. 2 weeks ago I ate something that I almost got stuck on. It hurt when it went down and I was uncomfortable but never threw up. I got a bad feeling that something wasn't quite right you know? Well the next morning I got up and took my medicine for the day and I threw up three times after that and I had awful dry heaves. I thought maybe I had a stomach virus. Turns out what I had eaten the night before really aggravated my band. I had to go back to liquids for 3 days and then I was fine after that.

[reverie 49]

How many CC's do you have in your band?

[vlp1968 83]

I have needed an unfil a few weeks- a month after a fill. Not sure why all of a sudden the band got tighter. I hear your pain. I feel like I spent too much time either hungry or too tight during my weight loss journey. Now that I am at goal, I choose to keep my band very loose- I monitor my weight carefully- weighing in every day. I base what I eat- or don't eat- on what the scale says. I wonder if I could have done it without the band. I guess I'll never know- the money spent was a huge motivator in any case. Good luck!

[54Shirley 105]

Believe it or not if your not full enough, everything can get hung up. I'm tighter now then I ever been, so no appetite, and as long as I eat slow, and chew it up everything is going down. Before that everything was getting hung up. So yeagh,,, How full are you?

[zeniada 9]

How many CC's do you have in your band?

3 cc in a 4cc band....

[reverie 49]

3 cc in a 4cc band....

Oh. And you were banded this year? I thought they stopped using 4cc bands?

Either way maybe you've just irritated your stomach. Try hot liquids for a few days. Also keep in mind even the littlest things can change your level of restriction. Stress, hormones, the weather, TOM, etc.

Hope you find restriction soon!

[zeniada 9]

Oh. And you were banded this year? I thought they stopped using 4cc bands?

Either way maybe you've just irritated your stomach. Try hot liquids for a few days. Also keep in mind even the littlest things can change your level of restriction. Stress, hormones, the weather, TOM, etc.

Hope you find restriction soon!

They still use the 4cc in Mexico... Yeah I'm gonna do liquids only for 2-3 days thanks Reverie for your help

[ElfiePoo 109]

The joys of banded life. The band can tighten or loosen a bit on its own and unless you can't drink Water, I'd just go with the flow and wait for it to loosen again.

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[54Shirley 105]

The joys of banded life. The band can tighten or loosen a bit on its own and unless you can't drink Water, I'd just go with the flow and wait for it to loosen again.

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I have a 4cc band too, mine is the old one, but it's one day at a time, and if you are not tight enough everything will get hung up. To tight, it will get stuck.

Good advice,,, there talking about (THE RED ZONE). Cant swallow saliva, you don't want to go there trust me....... Just make sure you can drink Water at the Dr.'s office.

Then liquids for 3 days. I have 2.5cc in my band, and I am not really hungry. Maybe every 5 hrs. That's what they told me is ideal, and it's working.

So Good Health To You, Shirley.

[Wheetsin 714]

I pesronally no longer believe in the perfect fill level, because EVERYTHING affects our fill. The number of ccs we have doesn't change, but the restriction it gives us does.

The same 2cc may be too loose some days, or too tight other days. So since it's everything BUT the band that changes, how can there be a perfect restriction?

My philosophy is that it's better to be too loose and have to exercise my willpower, than to be too tight and be at increased risk for bad stuff to happen.

Honestly... I can go from wide open one day, to clamped down such that a glass of Water takes me 4 hours to drink. Hell, I can go from one extreme to the other in the SAME day. Yesterday I grazed all day, now I'm still working on the same 6 oz of juice I got 5 hours ago.

[54Shirley 105]

I pesronally no longer believe in the perfect fill level, because EVERYTHING affects our fill. The number of ccs we have doesn't change, but the restriction it gives us does.

The same 2cc may be too loose some days, or too tight other days. So since it's everything BUT the band that changes, how can there be a perfect restriction?

My philosophy is that it's better to be too loose and have to exercise my willpower, than to be too tight and be at increased risk for bad stuff to happen.

Honestly... I can go from wide open one day, to clamped down such that a glass of Water takes me 4 hours to drink. Hell, I can go from one extreme to the other in the SAME day. Yesterday I grazed all day, now I'm still working on the same 6 oz of juice I got 5 hours ago.

Have not yet had that experience. Been in the red zone though, and that is not fun at all.

I like mine snug, then there is no appetite issues. If I have to do fluids for a few days, I can handle that. We all can handle that.

So knock on wood *** I hope that doesn't happen in the near future,

[Wheetsin 714]

I tried the snug route, and ended up having to get an unfill because I couldn't get my own saliva down. That did not make for a fun 1 hour drive down the interstate in someone else's car.

I know a lot of people who prefer the tight side, tho. Unfortunately for me when I'm tight, I'm usually too tight for fluids. And getting even 1/4 cc removed can make no difference, or enable loaves of bread.< /p>

Fickle b****, that band...

[Melly26 0]

you were banded in may and have already lost over 100lbs??

im only 6 months behind you and have barely made a dent!

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Oh. And you were banded this year? I thought they stopped using 4cc bands?

Either way maybe you've just irritated your stomach. Try hot liquids for a few days. Also keep in mind even the littlest things can change your level of restriction. Stress, hormones, the weather, TOM, etc.

Hope you find restriction soon!

[reverie 49]

you were banded in may and have already lost over 100lbs??

im only 6 months behind you and have barely made a dent!

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6 months is a long time Keep pushing along you'll get there. We all lose at different rates!