Advice from those with more in their bands please

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Good afternoon all

I am hoping that you will be able to help with thoughts please. I

have a BioEnterics LAGB 10.cm band. My patient identification card

that comes with the band says maximum fill 4cc. I know as the tube

to the port gets filled with fluid as well they can get in extra.

To date I have 5.1 mls in the band.

My last fill taking me to 5.1 mls was the first time I got

the " feeling " no hunger and it was fantastic. It has now gone and I

am so hungry. I find it so hard to understand that I can have a

stomach the size of a golf ball and put so much food in there and

not feel full at all. Breakfast today I managed to eat 2 whole

peaches, yoghurt, guardian cereal and was still bl****dy hungry.

I am following all the rules, I noticed Bev said " no fluid for 1

hour after eating " and doing that. Drinking heaps of water between

meals, having protien at lunch and dinner, heaps of veges etc. Yet

the hunger got to meal and I sat down and ate 1 packet of girl guide

biscuits...not the girl guides fault of course.

I am worried, what happens if they can not put anymore fill in? How

much more can they put into this band? Is there anything I can do to

help with this? Any thoughts, advice etc would be very very

appreciated, and I will try it.

Thanks so much

Cheryl in NZ