Can you eat so much that you stretch your pouch?

Firecallie · 01-26-2006, 06:11 PM

Therefore rendering the Lap Band ineffective?

Nykee · 01-26-2006, 11:58 PM

I think you can

BUT, I cant see this is possible unless you abuse your band..

the band HURTS and causes symptoms when its having trouble passing food through it..

tightness or pain in the chest.. producing lots of saliva, hiccupps
slime and PB's and golf balls..

IF you avoid these things.. I assume your avoiding filling the pouch so much and streaching it..

Thats mY opinion.

**Alexandra** · 01-27-2006, 05:22 AM

The answer is yes, the pouch can stretch to accommodate too much food, but there is a limit. Food will start backing up into your esophagus, causing discomfort or vomiting. This effect will lessen over time--I know I feel it less readily now, after 2.5 years--making "pouch-packing" easier to do.

Can your pouch stretch permanently? I don't know. Still, now when I eat "a lot" it's NOTHING like what it was before banding. The restrictive effect changes somewhat but the fact remains, I can't eat more than a certain amount without discomfort.

**Jack** · 01-27-2006, 07:56 AM

I don't know the exact academic answer to your question.

No matter how much I may TRY to overeat, through habit, stupidity or other factors, those incidents involve so much LESS food that preBand, I don't think it has occured in my own situation.

Example of possible overeating yesterday:

Breakfast: 1/2 cup enhanced shredded wheat, w/skim milk. @ hours later a piece of steak about 2 oz.

Lunch: improper Bandster non-lunch: 16 oz coffee, 1 bran muffin consumed over 2 hour period. Later, 1 cup pinto beans and cheese w/a dab of guacamole.

Snack: 2 oz steak. (Notice on the steak: I now take a 6-8 oz steak, preBand I ate at least ONE of these nearly every day...now it takes 3 or 4 meals for ONE).

Dinner: 1 bowl home made chili. 3" square home made corn bread w/a little butter. 1 2x2 blueberry cobbler w/3T FF yoghurt.

Late snack: 2 soda crackers, 4 oz cranberry juice.

This is not especially good choices over the long run. It was one day....and most of the day I did feel 'stuffed'....not 'overstuffed'....

Water intake about 60 oz.

The sensation of 'satiety' is something new to me....if I heed it's quiet song all is well. If I let the Dragon of Hunger reign, it is a mistake to eat a small banana too rapidly....so I don't think so far I have any indication of stretching the pouch.