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It said "suck an egg" I know what it said but that really doesn't matter. You guys are nothing more than bullies and I hope you can't sleep at night with your behavior! Rest assured you all will be in the same boat sooner or later and I hope no one at all has sympathy for you!

Really??.... Telling someone to suck an egg and grow up is adult? Wow, I really do dislike people on this forum. What in the world is so horrible about this woman posting her problems on here? IT IS A LAPBAND COMPLICATIONS FORUM... what part of that do you guys not realize??

Don't worry about blocking me, I have nothing further to say to you other than what I have already said. People can read for themselves the ignorance!

Of all the replies to post on here yours seems the most hateful to everyone! You want to turn things around and make the person feel like what happened to them was their fault. I'm sooooo sorry that your band hasn't caused you these problems so you can reach out to other rude people, like yourself! She did answer your question just so you know, it just wasn't a good enough answer in your opinion! Whether or not it is public is irrelevant. I know if I wasn't having complications I could care less what others were posting on a forum dealing with complications! It doesn't make sense to me why you would care what others post if you weren't having complications? Yeah, having faith that she could come here for "support" which I think this forum is supposed to be about, only got her treated bad! MsMaui, good luck to you hon... I'm truly sorry for what you are going through and I do also truly understand that having band complications IS NOT always caused by self infliction as others try to make people believe! While I did love my band for some things, there are times I hate it!

I have a question and I'm not trying to be mean to anyone..... It seems everyone here is wanting to bash her for sharing her story. Isn't this what the forum was created for? Another question I have is how come everyone is getting so upset with her when the forum is about lapband complications? If you guys love your band that's great but people who are having problems and aren't really loving theirs didn't come here to hear stories about loving their bands but stories that others have similar to theirs, which is just what her story was to me. As with every single surgery on the market, whether you like it or not, they all have some failure rate. The major question here is why must someone comment on someone having issues making them feel more negatively unless you yourself are having problems and are trying to make yourself feel better by putting them down? Also again, it doesn't make sense to me at all what someone would even be doing on a forum where people are discussing lapband complications if they themselves didn't have issues. Sorry if I made any of you mad but if this is how people here do, make people feel worse, I'm not so sure I still want to be a member anyway!

I sent you a private message..... or at least I think I did! LOL I'm not too great at posting on this forum.

I want to say thank you so much for posting your story! I am going through what seems to be almost the exact same things as you have been going through. After seeing my lapband doctor and getting no results as to what was causing the problems, I was sent to a cardiologist. The cardiologist said I had heart arrhythmia and put me on medication. Despite the medications I kept having the same issues and went back again to my lapband doctor. He finally agreed to do a barium swallow, which showed that I had a dilated esophagus. He decided to remove all the fluid in my band, which made my issues WAY WAY worse! I had trouble sleeping before because of re-flux but now it's absolutely impossible to sleep in any position other than sitting up. He has put me on Ranitidine 150 MG on top of the over the counter medicine I was already taking and it still isn't helping. I had another barium swallow six weeks later which showed my esophagus was much better but the issues hadn't subsided. He suggested we do a gastric emptying study. I agreed and had that done this past Thursday. I plan to call tomorrow to schedule my follow up appointment about the results. He told me at my last appointment that I may have to have the band removed. I'm in pain all the time now. I really don't want to lose my band. I have no idea what comes next! I'm sorry to hear about all you've been through. I pray that things improve for you! Thank you so much for sharing your story!

I never had a problem with the doctor finding my port or giving me a fill. A doctor should know how to easily find the port and give a fill. I did have a crazy nurse though that did me the same way as he did you and I was terrified to go back too but because of my being scared and not going, I ended up gaining a lot of weight instead of losing. I wish you the best of luck!

I was banded 3 years ago. I weighed 240 and lost down to 150 within a little over a year. I loved the band and thought it was absolutely wonderful. My doctor that I thought was a great doctor suddenly left the practice and the last time I'd went in I had to see the nurse. She said I needed a fill and about killed me trying to find my port. Usually it's not the least bit painful but I was ready to cry! Finally she got it but didn't tell me how much of a fill I got, which was nothing like the doctor I had. I was so upset that things were so painful and that I'd gotten a bruise that lasted over 2 months, that I was too scared to go back. In the meantime I'd got a letter telling me that there was a new doctor coming in to replace the doctor that'd left and that it'd be about a month before he'd be seeing patients. This whole time I was having problems with my band (burning pain in my port, back pain, chest pain, loss of taste and waking up at night coughing with really bad heartburn and reflux. I had also lost all restriction within a few weeks of having the fill.) Again I was terrified of going in because the nurse was so horrible so I just kept prolonging things and trying to make it. Finally I couldn't take it anymore, I'd gained a lot of weight back and the pain was just getting worse. I called and asked was the new doctor seeing patients and was told yes. I made and appointment and went in yesterday. I explained to him about everything and even told him about how the nurse did. I was informed she was no longer working at the office (I'm fairly sure I wasn't the only one that complained, nor am I sure she was even allowed to give fills because they had no record of her doing so or how much she added). The new doctor didn't have a friendly bedside manner like the one I was used to. Anyway, he was concerned with what I had told him and he thought maybe there could be a hole in the port area (probably because that crazy nurse!). He sent me down to have an upper GI done and told me to come back up afterward for the results. I went down and drank the stuff and had the x-rays and went back up. He came in and told me that my band had been excessively tight. I told him I didn't understand because I didn't have any restriction. He then told me to come into his office and he'd show me the x-rays and explain. When I got there he showed me everything. He said that my band had been tightened so tight that nothing could get through. He didn't understand how I was even getting fluid down comfortably. I told him I had no issues drinking or eating but did feel some pain all the time. I again told him I had no restriction though. He showed me the fluid going through the band and he was right it was just barely seeping through. It didn't make since to me. I asked him how I was getting food down then. He then pointed out to me my esophagus above my band. He said that it wasn't supposed to be anywhere near that big. He said my esophagus had no where for the food to go and instead of forcing me to throw it back up it had just stretched out. It had stretched out so much it had basically created a stomach about the size of both my fist put together. I asked him what we were going to do and he said he had to remove all of the fluid in my band and give it time to hopefully heal. I asked him then what. He said hopefully in a month or two it'd heal and we could retighten the band but starting over like I'd just gotten the band. I asked him what happens if it doesn't heal back down. He then said we wasn't going to discuss that and we needed to just hope that it will heal. I'm scared to death now! I'm worried about gaining the weight back completely (I'm only 37 pounds from it as it is) and worse than that of what happens if I don't heal. I'm thinking it's most likely meaning either removing my band or at the least having to go through another surgery to fix it. I have all kinds of worries! I thought getting the band was going to make my life so much better but now I'm thinking it's a horrible NIGHTMARE! I also found out that the doctor I had before had totally different rules. For example he forbid any protein shakes. He said I was to never EVER to drink them. His theory was no liquid calories whatsoever! He also did not believe in a liquid diet after fills. He said that it did not make any sense. I told the new doctor this and he looked at me like I was crazy and then just said well now I'm your doctor. You always drink protein shakes for breakfast and that will be your breakfast. I'm mad, I'm confused, I'm scared, I'm everything. What am I supposed to do? Am I really supposed to be drinking protein shakes for breakfast and nothing else? I was always told protein first but never in liquid form. The diet this doctor wants me on is totally different than the other doctor and had I known all this I'm not so sure I'd have went through the surgery because it's pretty much going to be the diet without the band. Don't get me wrong, I ate what I was supposed to. I never drank anything other than water and on rare occasions I'd have a cup of milk. Sorry I just needed to vent!

I might would consider doing the same if it were a choice for me but I'm pretty sure my insurance won't cover anymore surgeries dealing with weight loss surgery. I am doing everything my doctor says right now and hopefully it'll fix itself but I'm terribly sore since he took out all the fluid. I think maybe the soreness comes from it trying to heal. I'm scared to death that I'm going to get big as a house so I'm very careful to count every single calorie that goes into my body. Hopefully I can be really strong and things will fix and I can start gradually getting fills again. I am scared to think of it not fixing itself! I'm sorry to hear you had a similar issue but I'm glad for you being able to revise to something else. I wish you the best of luck and hope that it works out much better for you! I haven't had constant diarrhea but I have gained almost all of my weight back. I'm working hard to get it off on my own now.... what other choice do I really have?

Not sure about on My Fitness Pal but they have a calorie counter, water counter, excercise counter, etc.. on www.sparkpeople.com . I like it a lot! Hope that might be helpful to you. Oh and I forgot to say,... it's easy to edit them how you want them.

www.sparkpeople.com has a place to track everything!

Could you explain to me how much calories, protein, etc... you consume daily? With 2 different doctors telling me 2 different things, I'd like to hear what others doctors have told them. Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the support! This is really a great place! I do truly want to be calm about this whole thing. Even though the new doctor doesn't have a good bedside manner I do feel that he's the better doctor. What he has told me has made much more since of everything. He explained to me that the band is tighter in the mornings (This I know has always been true for me) and that's why I should have liquid Protein shakes. It does make since to me. It just scares me of being too tight again and this same things happening. I mean, I didn't know I was too tight. I didn't have the throwing up like everyone does. I did look this new doctor up and I found out he was practicing at another place before coming here but not much other than that. I'm disturbed at the reason the other doctor left. It was so hidden. I do know of one lawsuit against him for an RNY surgery he preformed. The lady got in really bad condition and had to be operated on numerous times and had to have a lot of her intestines removed. I don't know if it was his error or her error or what the whole thing was about. I wondered if this had to something to do with him leaving. As for the nurse leaving... I only seen her very few times during the whole three years. I never seen just her until the day with the fill. I first met her at the seminar, then seen her before having surgery. I seen her as I was going in to surgery and she told me she'd be there during my surgery and that was the last I seen of her for about a year. When I was a year out from having my surgery I seen her while I was waiting to see the doctor just so she could take a new picture of me. Other than that I'd never seen her! I was really shocked the day she came in and did the fill. She repeatedly told me that the reason it was hurting and she was having a hard time finding the port is because I had so much scar tissue. I told her the doctor had never had any issues. I know there have been other issues with this nurse because my Mom (I talked her into being banded also) had an appointment and the doctor was still there but the nurse attempted the fill and after about 15-20 minutes of her poking around on my Mom, the doctor came in and asked what was taking so long. He ended up doing the fill. My Mom is pretty tough and doesn't complain about anything so she really didn't talk much of it. My Mom and I got to talking after I had the same issue with the nurse and she had told us both the scar tissue was the reason she was having trouble. I don't know about others but 2 out of 2 fills not going well doesn't sound good! Things just don't add up! The office won't tell anyone other than the doctor left and the nurse was no longer with them. I guess it's not legal that they tell but I think it should be patients rights to know these things! I've looked the doctor up time and time again and could never find more on him other than the office here. Then suddenly the other day I found him. He's now in Illinois and from what I can tell still doing the same things. As for the nurse, I don't know anything more than her first name so I wouldn't even know how to find her or more information about her. Thanks for all you guys support! I really do need some right now! I've been praying hard and will continue doing so. I am trying to watch everything I eat and keep up with it as I should. I sure don't want to gain the rest of it back! I hope things get better and hope it's as simple as letting it heal and starting over. Hopefully this time I'll find the slim me and things work out!