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Out of Body Experience - - first experience with restriction


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Guest WillyWonka

Well, the choices have been mine:

1. I got myself fat;

2. I made the choice to get banded;

3. Despite all of the warnings about eating too much or too fast, I probably erred on eating too much or too fast.

The details:

I had a 10 cc. Lamp-Band implanted seven weeks ago. I had a 3 cc. fill two weeks ago, and I received another 3 cc yesterday.

I was on liquids for 24 hours following my fill yesterday, and this evening I decided to have some salad and grilled chicken.

My individual mouthfull's of food, I am guessing, were too large, and the speed that I ate at was probably too fast.

I developed:

1. belching (non-propductive);

2. feeling like I was suffocating;

3. feeling like I had no where to go.

I tried walking around with no relief. I even drank a little pineapple juice, with no relief.

I imagine this is exactly what I asked for, my band told me to stop eating. Is there anything that I can do to feel better in situations like this one, other than to avoid them?

This was one memorable moment (about forty minutes, actually).

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Wow, sorry you had to go thru that, but its definately a learning experience. I cannot stand that feeling, it is too painful and yucky, to have all that "slime". So I make myself bring it back up. Its not like I do a full (sorry for the term) vomit. Just enough for it to come up, not like heaving. Dont ask me how I do it, I just am able to. But at 5 months out, I still get food stuck. I just never really know when it will happen despite trying to be careful. Good Luck.

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In this case, that old learning curve just reared its ugly head again and bit you on the proverbial tush. Not fun. I am 8 months out and still have to remind myself to eat smaller bites. You're lucky you had a fairly small time to suffer. My first incident, with mashed potatoes, no less, caused such a lump in my chest and major pain for over two hours. OUCH!

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