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Hi peeps anyone here from England that's had band fitted and how long.

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Yep me :-). Had mine done in Nov 2008 and have lost 9 stone x

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Really I had mine on the 21 of dec and I'm finding it really hard to cope with at the moment had a fill but don't feel any restriction and doctor didn't explain about the band very much as was ment to have a bypass but then had to change before op as got type 1 dieabities and they didn't want to give me a bypass and things go wrong with the dieabities.

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That's strange and not good if the banding wasn't explained to you. We are all different with our bands. I have had just 3 fills and I'm happy (just 3mls) although I've had patients who have 8 mls and feel no restriction at all. How is your weight loss? x

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I had first fill he put 5 ml in but I have 10 ml band weight loss is ok but really not sure what I should be eating and how many calories we should be having stuff like that, had fill on the 17 of feb next one not till 3 of may

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Hi I am in uk, Scotland and was banded on the 14th March on a 4 week liquid diet. Follow up appointment on the 16th April will discuss a fill at this meeting with dietician.

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For some people it takes just 1 fill, for others more. Are you keeping a food diary ??? I found mine really helpful and wished I had carried on with it to be honest. Are you able to eat all the types of foods you did before? How about your portion sizes? Chin up x

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I find my fitness pal useful to log my foods and excersise.

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UK Surrey banded sept '12. How you all doing x

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