I had my 4th fill last week ...thoughts...problems..questions...

BlessedTwice · 07-14-2008, 02:14 PM

Hello,

I just had my 4th fill last Thursday and now have 4.1 in a 10mm band. I lost another 5 pounds...Woohoo...

I had pretty good restriction, but felt it had been better weeks before so my surgeon but in .4.

My water went down fine and he even had me gulp it to make sure it would not come up.

I am now past the liquid, mushie and now trying to wat some solids....

That is the problem, I cannot tolerate meat at all. I ate some itty bitty pieces of chicken earlier and it came back up...I even chewed it alot.

so now I'm doing liquids again...

I'm going to give it a few more days before I call my surgeon. I have to drive about 1 1/2 to my drs. office so I really want to make sure I need and unfil before I go in.

Wouldn't I have problems even keeping liquids down to need an unfill.

I figure my band is just being finicky right now....lol

Any comments, ideas?

thanks,
Bren

travel_anna · 07-14-2008, 02:56 PM

Same thing happened with me and my 4th fill. I tried to wait it out, but ultimately went for an unfill. By the end of the 4 days I waited, everything was so swollen, I had to take out so much that now I have LESS than I had before that 4th fill.
I have no idea whether waiting it out will work for you - I hope so. But it sure didn't work for me.
Now that all the swelling as gone down, I have less restriction than I would have had if I just hadn't gotten the fill in the first place, or had gone back the next day and taken out exactly what they put in.
Good luck.

coolcrystal · 07-14-2008, 03:12 PM

Good restriction is being able to eat normal solid foods, such as chicken and tuna.. you can't live on liquids forever. I will spare you my speech.. Perhaps try some tuna. That might go down better than chicken. Bumblebee has a great lemon pepper tuna that is so moist and awesome.

BlessedTwice · 07-14-2008, 06:29 PM

Thank you both. I have lots of the bumblebee tomato basil ... I will try that.

Thanks again

Mom2_4 · 07-15-2008, 11:21 AM

It sounds like you might be a bit tight but maybe you should give it a few more days before going back. I had to learn to eat smaller bites and more slowly which sounds simple enough but it was hard to remember at times. Also, with more restriction comes more intolerance to some foods. I had to learn the hard way several times not to eat certain things anymore. Best of luck to you!

peabody · 07-18-2008, 01:43 PM

hey that's me too.

i also noticed that my band get's tighter when i retain fluid....especially pms time...i had to go back to liquids and soft mushy stage...till my evening meal...my swelling is always better in the evening, and i can eat easier then.

my pms has now passed and i was able to eat pork tenderloin last night..without getting sick.

there will be some things each time that you won't tolerate or won't go well with pms but go well at other unswollen times..

good luck and be gentle with it

amanda

slimgirl · 07-18-2008, 01:49 PM

What's the LAP-BAND^® conference? How do I go about getting information? I live in Dallas...It's been 22days out for me.