Hullo!

I had my third fill last Wednesday. From my 6.4 ml fill last time, I'd just lost .4 ml and gone down to 6.0 ml. They've filled it to 7.4 ml, and I'm really, REALLY quite restricted. I thought I'd give it a bit of time to see if I lost a decent amount, but NO! I've only lost 1 lb in just over a week! But now I understand some of the things that people talk about on the websites I use. In the absence of being able to eat anything textured, I'm eating rubbish. Absolute rubbish. Puddings with cream slip down a treat, no problem. I'm not suggesting that I do this all the time, but certainly far more frequently than I want to. I'm not going to give it very long before I have a bit taken out. It's no fun & it's not natural. I just want to be able to eat salads again!

I can really only eat a tiny amount now, and it backs right up into my throat.

I'm still keeping fairly positive, but not sure how long that would last for.

The other thing to tell you is how squemish I went on the last fill - I was on the verge of fainting every time they put the bed upright for me to have the barium meal! 5 times in total, not sure they were very impressed with me, but they remained patient. Hopefully it's not something that I'll talk myself into every time I go. Dr Lees put me some Smiths on his i-pod though, which calmed me a bit - you can't beat a bit of the Smiths.....

Oooooh, edit to include, I got engaged the other day, at the ripe old age of 36..... Cue lots of "ring" comments.... ;)

Weight: 12 st. 12 lb.