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Monday 08 Oct 2012 I am getting my first fill in well over a year. The last fill I got was horrible. I was over filled and didn’t know it. I waited three days and turns out I jacked myself up pretty bad. They removed most of my fill and I never went back in to have it readjusted out of part fear and part "hell this is nice, I can eat again".

Well, obviously for anyone who has eating issues I have put on 15-20 lbs in the last year. I’m feeling very sluggish and my clothes are not fitting right. I feel like **** in general and I’m looking tubby again too so it’s time to get back on the wagon as it were.

I’m nervous and anxious at the same time. I’m picking now (right before holidays and my travel season for work) when I know I will be tempted to over eat.

I have a short time to get my head back into the right place or I will be puking up everything I eat and put myself thru misery for no reason if I don’t..... You know what I’m talking about. For me, if I eat anything other than Soup or a few bites of "hard food" I’d be bent over a sink hacking my face off.

Just this AM i woke up from eating too soon before going to bed. I’m pretty sure others have done it. Ate a little too much or drank before laying down and then being woke up at like 4 am coughing and hacking like you inhaled Fluid and feel like you are drowning... yet I STILL snack before bed.

I have problems with food, it’s very clear to me and I’m obviously lack the self-control so I’m reaching out to others who have experienced the same thing as me for advice and help.

So, comments, suggestions or smarmy remarks are welcome.

thanks

-jes

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Monday 08 Oct 2012 I am getting my first fill in well over a year. The last fill I got was horrible. I was over filled and didn’t know it. I waited three days and turns out I jacked myself up pretty bad. They removed most of my fill and I never went back in to have it readjusted out of part fear and part "hell this is nice' date=' I can eat again".

Well, obviously for anyone who has eating issues I have put on 15-20 lbs in the last year. I’m feeling very sluggish and my clothes are not fitting right. I feel like **** in general and I’m looking tubby again too so it’s time to get back on the wagon as it were.

I’m nervous and anxious at the same time. I’m picking now (right before holidays and my travel season for work) when I know I will be tempted to over eat.

I have a short time to get my head back into the right place or I will be puking up everything I eat and put myself thru misery for no reason if I don’t..... You know what I’m talking about. For me, if I eat anything other than Soup or a few bites of "hard food" I’d be bent over a sink hacking my face off.

Just this AM i woke up from eating too soon before going to bed. I’m pretty sure others have done it. Ate a little too much or drank before laying down and then being woke up at like 4 am coughing and hacking like you inhaled Fluid and feel like you are drowning... yet I STILL snack before bed.

I have problems with food, it’s very clear to me and I’m obviously lack the self-control so I’m reaching out to others who have experienced the same thing as me for advice and help.

So, comments, suggestions or smarmy remarks are welcome.

thanks

-jes[/quote']

Hi Jes,yes I have had the fill issues that you spoke about as well as the eating to late and the hacking oh have I had them. The fill I too was to tight lost 7 pounds in a week-end could not eat anything just had a fill went thru sime discomfort not bad this year. It was a year this july for this fill made it, so just take your time eat very slow slow chew slow good luck with the travels I would get the fill way begore I go even before the holiday's start so you can be prepared.

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I think last fill they took a lot out and between that and lack of self-discipline I have gained weight.

I am really worried that I have "stretched" out the area above the band. If this area has been "stretched" do you or anyone else know if it will go back to where it was pre yearlong gorge? LOL

if anything worries me the most it is that I have stretched this area above the band and in effect ruined the whole reason to have the band in the first place.

I REALLY hope it isn’t stretched and if so it will go back down. If it does, how long does this take? Like a liquids for a week kinda thing or longer?

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I think if you have "night cough" you are still too tight!!! You won't over eat if you are getting enough solid Protein & drinking enough Water. There's that "5 day pouch test" diet people do to start over. You may try that. I only have 3ccs in an 11cc band & I am in the green zone. So don't let the # of ccs dictate whether you get more fills. Talk to your dr. Good luck.

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I have an appointment on Monday for a fill. I have been reading this stuff about pouch stretching and this and that... I have had the band since 2008 or 2009 and have lost a good deal of weight but I’m not feeling full as fast and I’m letting the stories I read worry me that I have stretched mine out… ugg! HAHAH

I’m looking forward to a fill. I think a fill will for sure help. I get nailed for 150 a fill and don’t want some doctor jerking me around putting a tiny bit in or taking a tiny bit out every few weeks because teach time the 10 min appointment makes him a 150 bucks.. HAHAH

I guess Monday I will see what the deal is... if I start losing weight again then cool.. I am really worried about that over fill again. That sucked soooo bad!

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Hola, quick update.

Its been since Oct 5th since my last fill and I have lost about 30 pounds. Im back to 199-200 and been stuck here since the weather really went cold on me and I cant go running.

I hope to get to 189 lbs as my goal weight which isnt far away now. My wife keeps telling me that Im losing too much and that I wont lok right "skinny" and that my thick baseball player legs and footballer butt is going away and she donest like it... I guess I better start lifting again rather then just losing weight.

So, my goal is 189 then back up to 200 but with muscle.. guess Ill check bak when i hit my goal weight in about 11 pounds.

-jes

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