Why can’t my adjustable gastric band be filled right away so it can start helping me lose weight?
The adjustable gastric band is fitted loosely around your stomach during surgery. Healing and scarring must happen to help hold the band in the proper place. If the band is filled too soon, it could slip out of place, and surgery would be needed to fix it. If the band was filled as tight as necessary at the time of surgery, the band would become constricting and damage the stomach wall. Slowly filling the band allows the stomach underneath to get used to the changes in pressure from the band.
