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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helen louise" data-source="post: 330865" data-attributes="member: 41094">1st band fill this morningI had a chat with my consultant first who preformed the surgery & he confirmed my liver was very floppy during sugery which indeed meant the the liver defatting diet had done its job well, he also told me the reason I had a small band (10ml) fitted was that I had very little internal fat around my stomach which is good news! others with more fat would have a 14ml fitted,Went very well, had an xray to check the port was in the right place, the port is where they inject the fluid into the band, it is located on my breastbone,The dr 1st injected 4ml & got me to swallow a mouth full of barium & check how well it trickled down, but it didn't, sort of felt like it was sat in the throat! he then removed 1ml which helped but still felt uncomfortable so he took it down to 2.75ml, it trickled down slowly but steadily so it was left at that amount,I must admit is someone told me I would be stood up on a machine with a needle & tubing stuck out of my chest whilst having numorous xrays I think I would have been a little more woried than I was! but thankfully it all went much better than I expected,I now just wait & see what kind of restriction this gets, it varies how many fills you need, anything from 1 to 7/8!any further fills will just be with the consultant & no xrays needed  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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