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I am constantly clearing my throat and have burning in my esophagus - driving me crazy - doctor says it is acid reflux and gave me Nexium but this seems excessive like clearing throat and coughing after I lay down to go to sleep at night - this may be a stupid question but if the fluoroscope shows everything to be normal and always has could it still have slipped? They always tell me everything looks great - I did, however, have 1 cc taken out to see if it helped and it really didn't = still feel too tight and still clearing throat - still feel as tight as I did before -my band was at the maximum fill - have had for almost 3 years. I am planning on having it removed because I would rather gain some weight back than feel like this all the time and I haven't lost weight in 8 months so think my body has adjusted to the lower portions and it isn't working anymore for me. Have only 20 more to go so Doctor won't do the sleeve.

I am furst thing in the morning. Thx

Been banded 2 1/2 yes. Lately when I eat it hurts when food goes down Caffeine or alcohol burns really bad. I almost never drink alcohol but with Christmas parties have had a few glasses of champagne It burns so bad going down I wonder if I am too tight or is something else like an ulcer on my esophagus. I do not have heartburn. Only burns as food or liquid is going down. Thx

It just seems like the amount of food I am able to eat in the evenings would not fit in the pouch and I am not throwing it up - maybe the pouch stretches a little - I have it checked every couple of months under the fluoro just to be safe that nothing is wrong and they always tell me everything looks fine. Thanks.

I am two years post-op. I just went for a fill yesterday because I felt like I was able to eat more than I should - I see the pouch under the fluoro and they say everything looks fine. The pouch looks so small that I wonder how it is holding the amount of food I eat - not that I eat that much just wonder where it goes if it can't go down and it won't fit in there - I do stop before I have to spit it out but just doesn't seem big enough to hold the food. Also, I am having a burning in my throat - I guess that is acid reflux but it feels like a sore throat and it travels up to my neck and shoulder sometimes. Thanks.

I noticed that when I went to Santa Fe recently and with the high altitude and freezing temperatures I had very tight restriction - does anyone know if cold weather or altitude affects restriction - Thanks -

I am still surprised at how slow the weight comes off when I am hardly eating anything - protein shake for breakfast - small lunch like tuna salad and then light dinner - compared to what I was eating - I am almost a year and a half out and am down only 25 lbs - better than being up but I would have thought by now would have lost about 40. I had 50 to lose so half way there just taking way longer than I thought it would. Just venting.

I do gurgle sometimes but what I do more than that is choke like I have to continually clear my throat like I am choking and then I cough - I think I may be too tight

Thanks - I was wondering how they could know without guessing. The doctor that doesn't use it is one of the top in Dallas so I was surprised that he didn't think it was necessary. He has two offices and doesn't have one in either office. I did notice, however, that if they use it the fills are $250 but the office that doesn't use it is only $100 for fills.

My doctor doesn't do the fills - his PA does - I got my band over a year ago and only have seen my doctor twice since - once 6 weeks post-op and then not until my year checkup. Is this normal? Thanks.

My doctor's office uses the Fluoro to do fills but recently I went to another doctor closer to my house who does not use it - he said that he found that if fluoro is used the band gets filled tighter than it should - okay, my question is without seeing it on the fluoro how could they possibly know what to put in without guessing based on what you are telling them.

Last month when I went in for my one year post-op checkup my doctor was out of town so I saw another doctor who works out of the same office. She put me under the x-ray machine and said that my pouch was stretched - I was very upset and said really? I have never had any problem and she said yes it looks stretched - it is bigger than it should be - then she looked at my file and said "oh no your pouch isn't stretched that is how it has always been, every person is different." Ever since then I have worried about my pouch being too big and that is why I am losing weight so slow because it holds too much food. She said that a normal meal with the band is only a half of a handful of food. I am changing doctors because (a) they never even told me I needed to do bloodwork and come in for a 6 month and a 1 year check with the doctor - if I hadn't have called after a year had passed and never seeing the doctor again after my surgery except after 6 weeks and asked they wouldn't have told me (:thumbup: I don't think she should have scared me like that without looking at the file first and © when I showed up for my checkup after having it scheduled for a month they had me down for a fill instead even though I had had bloodwork done the week before and they had to track a doctor down to see me. I also have to wait an hour or an hour and a half every time I go in for a fill. Very poorly run office. Thanks for letting me vent.

I have been banded over a year - I have not had a fill in a few months because I finally got the right level of restriction. My question has to do with a few nights ago I guess I didn't chew my food enough and I had to make it come back up. The next day my stomach was very sore - I have an appointment with my doctor tomorrow that was already scheduled a month ago so I will ask him to check it out but wondered if it is normal for the area where my stomach is to be sore - I have lost food like that before but didn't have the soreness and slight pain that I had this last time - I don't think my band slipped because I think I would have not been able to eat anything today and may have had more pain - I just feel sore bending over and slightly sore around my port too - Any thoughts? Thanks.

I stopped losing weight with calorie counting for 4 months until I started counting carbs instead and am now down 7 in two weeks. It is the only thing that works for me because I was eating soft foods because they go down easier which are mainly carbs