Question for DSers................

When you eat enough to fill your stomach pouch, do you feel pain telling you to stop or do you REALLY feel full?????????

 You feel REALLY full.   I never knew what "full" was until I had my DS.   As an aside, most DS'ers do not refer to their stomachs as "pouches" because we do not have one - we have a fully functioning stomach, with an intact pyloric valve.    It is often referred to as a "sleeve" or "remnant stomach."   

I am likley BRIGHT wrong, but I always thought that the remnant stomach is the unused, chopped off part that they leave inside an RnYer.

You are bright right.

~Becky

I think you might be bright right, LOL.     What do I know?  I thought Libya was Liberia.  

I don't have a pouch.  I have a fully functioning small stomach.  When I eat too much I feel very full.  Early on I could eat one bite too much and I would feel like I had to throw up (I only threw up once) or I would get the hiccups.  Now I just feel full like before surgery.

~Becky

Thanks everyone for all of your insights! This helps me out SO MUCH! I'm so done with feeling pain when I eat 1 or 2 bites with this band.

I met with Dr. Henry Buchwald today! I was SO impressed with him. I was relieved when he told me he didnt believe in the lap-band. He said "Lets take off that band and throw it in the garbage!" HAhahahaha...

He did say I might have trouble with insurance

But, we will see...

when my nose runs or i sneeze i am FULL~!

 I feel full and satisfied.  Only really quickly now!  

I'm formerly banded, so here's what I know.  The band felt like something was stuck (because usually it was) and the DS feels as normal as you felt before you had that piece of **** impanted in your body.  Like Thanksgiving.  Eat...get full...stuffed, if you like, unable to take another bite becuause there is nowhere for it to go.

Like that.

Not like that POS band.