srocks112

My wife is on her second gastric balloon.
The second one has been in since early July. The first one lasted eight months.
She's dropped from 122kg to 88kg. [269 pounds to 194 pounds.]
She's found it relatively easy to live with.
Do you have more specific questions,@srocks112 ?

Hi! So I was wondering how your experiences with the balloon were.

I would just to be sure. How can the doctor be so sure it's just the stomach lining without any diagnostic medical imaging to rule out other problems. I am not impressed with this surgeon.

I cannot emphasize this enough: get your mom to the hospital! If you can see little black specs in the vomitus, then that is an indicator of partially digested blood. It almost looks like coffee grounds. This is indicative of a serious, potentially life threatening condition. I was a volunteer EMT and this was drilled into us. The best thing to do is to get your mom to professional medical care post haste.

Hi guys! So my mom got the gastric balloon in Wednesday and since then she has been spitting up what we assume is blood. What should we do? I was going to contact the doctors however they were closed. Has anyone else experienced this? Should we go to the hospital? Like other than this she has had the typical symptoms, vomiting, acidity, and some discomfort. Please let me know what we should do or if this is a typical symptoms because I’m honestly extremely worried. Thank you!