Hunger - Ever feel like you have two stomachs - above & below?

[ccjll 177]

I'm curious if anyone else feels like this... because I am hungry below my band but above my band I feel like I've eaten enough (b/c of soft signs like hiccup or tightness). I'm trying to listen to my upper stomach but I feel hungry. I'm eating mostly Protein (chicken, salmon, eggs for the most part) and a little veggies and very little starch. It's a new week and I'm really going to concentrate on what's happening with me and hunger and document.

Just curious if any of you have experienced this before - I am under 3 months banded (Oct. 23rd) and I've been filled twice and have 6 cc's in the 10 cc band.

[Jack 855]

I have the 'mental' concept of Upper & Lower stomach....haven't seen it discussed much over the years. I don't really have a physical sensation of "war of 2 bellies".....just the experience of recognizing I don't have to eat to 'feel full' but eat to 'feel satiety'....

The "fullness' volume-sensors, when last I read up on the neurology of the Stomach, seems to be in the lower part. This fit with my own observation over the decades that I never experienced "satiety" until postOp. I had never even known 'satiety' existed except for various readings.

I do know if I focus on the "Belly Beast" of the Lower stomach, my tnedancy is to over eat.

The sip/sip/nibble/nibble Upper Belly does wonders for my disposition AND I never get the Errors of Eating issues of PBSlimes etc.

For me it works good to train my eating habit to satisfy the Upper Stomach. "The Pouch" works well for me physically and mentally. Keep it happy & all is well.

The Habit lingers after all these years, to eat when NOT hungry because I'm 'not full'. The Habid no longer rules, it just reminds how marvelous a job my Symbiant, my Little Angel of the Silicon Fist, actually does work for me.

Edited January 12, 2014 by Jack

[parisshel 1,892]

Yes; you've described very well something I've noticed too. I can be both hungry and full at the same time. And it's real hunger. This is particularly noticable after a fill, when I'm not yet back on solids. My pouch has fullness but my lower stomach doesn't.

I'm glad to see someone else experiences this. Makes me feel more normal