Jkinney07

Okay so last Wednesday (10/26) i came down with a really bad stomach flu and after i got over it on Monday (10/31), I still could not eat or keep anything down. I finally got in to the office on this Saturday morning (11/5) only to find out that my band slipped from my flu, my surgeon was not their it was just a nurse practitioner. My stomach is really swollen, and what she said happened was that it tried to pull through the band from the vomiting. She removed everything from my band, so it is wide open hoping that the swelling will go down and let my stomach go back to normal position, and set me up for an appointment with my surgeon next Wednesday (11/16). However she was unclear about what type of diet i should be on. My father that went with me thought that i needed to be on a liquid diet till i went back next Wednesday, but i don't remember her saying that. Has anyone ever been through this?

Hi, I have ben banded for almost a year on Nov. 19, and i have lost 99 pounds since then, but to be honest that is mainly because of general exercise and diet and working out with a trainer twice a week. Sicne surgery I have only been to be filled three times. We had to rush to get my and my fathers (because we did them together) done because our insurance was changing Dec. 1 and we had everything approved. So we were never appointed a case person, to help us. I found out i was approved and too weeks later was in the OR. We literally had surgery and left three hours later with a packet of Protein powder an prescription to liquid vicodin. We had no further instruction, but to eat mushie food for a week. We had no idea when to go back to the doctor, and ended up just making a fill over a month later. I am not impressed at all with the office. I have had a few times in the last year when i needed to see a doctor and the office reply was that i could not get an appointment for almost a month, The worst of the times was when i had gotten a stomach virus and vomited for a three days strait, when i was better and able to eat again my band hurt so bad it felt like some one stabbing me on the inside, and when calling the office to see the doctor was told it would be three weeks to be seen by a nurse practicer or over a month to be seen by my surgeon. I ended up going to my normal doctor who fixed me all up. So for the real problem now. Sorry for the rant but you needed a back story as to why i cant just go to the doctor. I had my last fill and visit in April so my band is not super tight. Since last Thursday I have not been able to keep anything down and have terrible acid reflux. I just spit up everything that i eat or drink, I called the office to get in, but it will be two weeks and I would really like to eat something before then. Thanks for any help!!!! Jordan