Ate solid foods immediately after fills-feeling no restriction

[cheryl2586 3,053]

He said he didnt follow his doctors instructions of liquids that is what he said

[Shackwacky 72]

I am curious --- how can it take two weeks for a fill to "kick in"? It would seem to me that if the Fluid is injected into the band, the band is fuller. That would put that much more restriction into place. How can this take two weeks? Is it a swelling thing? Is it in the mind?

Please note: I am not asking for advice nor questioning doctors orders. I am not complaining about how I feel about my own fill. I am just curious how something that seems to be a+b=c could have a delay factor.

[♕ajtexas♕ 3,771]

I am curious --- how can it take two weeks for a fill to "kick in"? It would seem to me that if the Fluid is injected into the band' date=' the band is fuller. That would put that much more restriction into place. How can this take two weeks? Is it a swelling thing? Is it in the mind?

Please note: I am not asking for advice nor questioning doctors orders. I am not complaining about how I feel about my own fill. I am just curious how something that seems to be a+b=c could have a delay factor.[/quote']

Yes swelling, the Fluid settling in the band and your head are all reasons a fill can take 2 weeks to "kick in". Plus other factors can cause tightness: TOM, stress, colds, allergies, weather, etc....

This has been my experience with fills.

[Shackwacky 72]

Thats interesting. But if its something thats causing tightness, (swelling, colds etc) how could this lead to a LATE kick in? I am thinking it would more likely cause a late kick out?

I had my first fill and didn't feel any change at all. I can't see how that may change further out, but it would seem that a number of people here have that happen. Has anyone ever talked this over with their doctors?

[♕ajtexas♕ 3,771]

Thats interesting. But if its something thats causing tightness' date=' (swelling, colds etc) how could this lead to a LATE kick in? I am thinking it would more likely cause a late kick out?

I had my first fill and didn't feel any change at all. I can't see how that may change further out, but it would seem that a number of people here have that happen. Has anyone ever talked this over with their doctors?[/quote']

Oh now I understand why you ask. First fill you probably won't feel any change and yes once swelling goes it will kick out. Once you get several fills and start feeling restriction then what I said applies.

It took about 6-7 fills before I was in the green zone. I didn't feel any restriction after my first fill.

[Shackwacky 72]

Thanks, but no, that wasn't why I was asking. i was told that I would likely not feel much difference after the fill so I wasn't really expecting it.

My question is: How can a band be filled on say, the 1st day of the month, and not "kick in" till say, the 14th of the month? This is what I have heard a number of posters mention. So what is happening in that 13 days in between. If it is swelling I would think the restriction would "kick in" even more, not less. And if there is no swelling or anything like that, what is the delay between the fill and the "kick in"?

It is totally and simply out of curiousity. The science is escaping me.

[cheryl2586 3,053]

When you get a fill there is swelling. You dont know until the swelling goes down which can take up to two weeks if the fill is enough or if you need more. Its not an a+b=c its not science. When you get a fill the stomach swells. In turn it takes anywhere up to two weeks for the stomach and swelling to subside just like when you had surgery so in two weeks if you still have restriction then you are in the green zone if not then you need more fills.

[CHEZNOEL 4,061]

I agree with Cheryl. Unless you ave every fill under fluoroscopy, and even then, the swelling is not accounted for. The docs go by what we tell them we eat, which is why they ask. They don;t do it to see if you are cheating, but to determine how well the band is working for you as an individual.

[Shackwacky 72]

Ha ha, never mind. In my head, I was assuming that swelling would lead to a feeling of being MORE full, or MORE restricted. I couldn't figure out how, as the swelling went away, that could then lead to a feeling of being more restricted as well. I must have heard someone wrong.

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Ha ha, never mind. In my head, I was assuming that swelling would lead to a feeling of being MORE full, or MORE restricted. I couldn't figure out how, as the swelling went away, that could then lead to a feeling of being more restricted as well. I must have heard someone wrong.

Actually, I understand what you're saying and don't understand how people can say their band is tighter a couple weeks after a fill. Swelling makes the band tighter, not looser, so that would result in the band getting looser as the swelling subsides. Not tighter.

I asked my doctor about this after reading it on here numerous times. He told me it's psychosomatic. He said the Fluid doesn't "settle" in the band and there is no physical reason for a fill to take time to "kick in". He agrees stuff like PMS, stress, even temperature can effect the band tightness but a band doesn't magically get tighter two weeks after a fill without outside factors influencing it.

[hely88 883]

Thankyou Mis!