What To Do When You Get Unfilled?

[Sombra1718 55]

I had to get all of the saline removed from my band yesterday. (I had been extremely tight for the last three months. I thought my band was going to explode inside of me because if the pressure I felt yesterday. The band and pouch are fine luckily. I got so tight because I lost all motivation and gained back fifty lbs. I am slowly gaining motivation back but I'm still feeling very hopeless.) have any if

[PuraVida37 715]

No advice for you, but wishing you lots of luck to get back on track!

[Sojourner 2,446]

To successfully lose weight with the band, or by any other means, one must "have their head in the game", and stay committed to reaching established weight loss goals. That means every day.

No one is perfect, but those smal slips with non-compliance should not become an all out relapse to your former ways of eating.

Time to pick yourself up, take an honest assessment of where you went wrong (faulty thinking, relapsing with food for comfort from stress, boredom, etc.), and get your focus back on your goals. Learn from your mistakes, and take a different path.

I spent months with no Fluid in my band, and still lost weight.

You can be successful if you want to. You hold the power.

Best wishes...

[terrydumont46 1,954]

i maybe a bit weird but i think about my band , food, wt.loss and exercise the moment i wake up until i go to bed. it's 12.45 am pacific time and here i am posting about the subject.

for you to be successful you need to

1. see your surgeon and get a time limit on when fills will begin again. and do fills slowly. so you can get used to them before another one is done

2.see a nutritionalist. you need a refresher course on how to eat with a band

3. get rid of all unhealthy, packaged boxed foods in your house.

4. buy your Protein and Vitamins, Calcium and vit. b's and d's. get ready to do this

5. come back here and let us help you. keep in contact with us or a support group. this is a hard road to go down on your own.

6. start doing some exercising. it doesnt have to be hardcore. just a walk around the yard. or up your driveway. just get a moving. good luck

[B-52 7,113]

Just to understand what you're saying.....your band got tight, because you could not control your eating and gained 50 lbs....so then you had saline taken out...is that correct?

I won't comment until I get it straight....

[LenRen25 58]

Though I didn't have the experience of gaining weight with the band, I did not lose any weight for the first 9 mos. after my surgery, so I understand your feelings of dismay...it took me a long time to get my head outta my @** & "in the game," and when I did, which was extremely recently, I finally started to lose. You CAN do this...it just takes some of us a little longer. We have to be ready for the life changes that come with this choice. It is not just a physical change; it is a mental change. I've found that if this is going to work for me, my whole life kind of needs to center around the band-when I tried to eat, socialize, or drink without being extremely conscious of the band and it's ultimate purpose, I failed. it is not too late to start again. Your band is okay, so that's good news. Now you start from here. I wish you much success!

[kll724 3,055]

Best wishes for our fresh start. Sound advice from terrydumont46. Karen..aka.kll724

[Sombra1718 55]

<p>Just to understand what you're saying.....your band got tight, because you could not control your eating and gained 50 lbs....so then you had saline taken out...is that correct?</p> <p> </p> <p>I won't comment until I get it straight....</p>

Yes you have the just of it. I apologist I had planned on giving more information but the post was sent prematurely. I got the band and lost 80lbs in the first 8 months. I had a gym membership and worked out at least four times a week. Then I got sick for a few months and had a very traumatic experience with the hospital. They took my gallbladder out and when they went to take out the stones that were left inside me they refused to call my Lapband surgeon and did not believe I had a band. So while I was awake they shoved tubes down my throat, down my stomach and through my band which was filled to 7ccs. I thought that they were taking the stones out but they were just checking to see if I had a band and if they could fit through it to get the stones. I cried when it was over and the dr was pissed at me because I was crying. After that my band felt different. Possibly slipped. And I never came back from it. I lost hope.

[Sombra1718 55]

I'm very interested in hearing what other people who have been completely unfilled told themselves to keep motivation without restriction. And what steps you took to keep losing weight. Sometimes it is the little thoughts and baby steps that make a huge difference. I'm stuck in my own head and it's not coming up with much right now so lend me your thoughts.

[B-52 7,113]

My apologies....it seems the majority of people who have had issues with the band, goining weight back, etc, also have some sort of medical complication to go along with it...as you did...

Hope you get it all straightened out....

I have never needed to have my band unfilled....but from what I have read from others, is that you just have to start over from square one and work back to that good place....

[Sombra1718 55]

<p>My apologies....it seems the majority of people who have had issues with the band, goining weight back, etc, also have some sort of medical complication to go along with it...as you did...</p> <p> </p> <p>Hope you get it all straightened out....</p> <p> </p> <p>I have never needed to have my band unfilled....but from what I have read from others, is that you just have to start over from square one and work back to that good place....</p>

This would be an awesome support group topic I think. How to come back from medical complications.