JayTee562

Good luck with your Dr's visit hope everythign is well. I'm still band less and not sure I want to have another surgery. My belly is starting to look like Frankenstein's still have very visable scars from my December surgery. I'm currently back on the diet road and doing Weight Watchers

I'm getting my records from my dr and the bariatriac center at the hospital my surgery was done at is going to pass them to the top doc for his review. I was really happy with my progress and not so happy with my back sliding since the band was removed. I'm starting a program to try and shave some of this excess off and hopefully it's something I can do long term if I don't get rebanded.

Sounds like you were having the same symptoms as meby the way,

That is a good question. He says he doesn't like to put the new band in during the same surgery, why is anyones guess. I haven't updatged since my band was removed. I had surgery on 12/16 to have a new band put in and he was unable to do it. I don't gully understand what the reason was but something that should have taken 4 minutes to do he tried to do for an hour and decided to stop before he caused injury, I'm currently waiting on my records so that I can give them to another surgeon. My options are to do nothing, find a different Dr for a band, get by pass or a sleeve. Sorry if there are a lot of typing mistakes I'm typing in the semidark without my bifocals on.

I had surgery on Thursday 10/20 to fix my slip. The doc was unable to fix it so my band has been removed. Now I need to decide if I want a new band, another type of surgery or go without.

Got the results from my upper GI and my band has slipped. I have to see the surgeon on 9/13 for a consultation guess I'll have to have surgery to fix the issue. Still not sure if insurance will pay for it or not I'm a bit scared to contact the insurance company or my HR don't want to raise a red flag but I guess I should check next week. Still going on the cruise I can eat and drink I just feel restricted even though I have very little fluid in my band. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers. If you are having trouble and not getting it checked do so before you get to the point I was to make sure there isn't a bigger issue then just GERD.

Thanks. I'm geeling much better had some loose sausage thie morning and even though felt full for a long time no issues had ground beef in pasta sauce for dinner and fell ok so I hope all is well,

Feeling much better today. The pain in my band area stopped last night, I got up to get a drink and noticed it didn't hurt going down but of course I had to get a bite of mashed potatoes to make srue and again no pain. I have the barium (sp) swallow on Monday haven't setup the scope yet I'll call today to do that.

Have you tried the warm beverage in the morning thing? That sometimes helps.

Ugh had nearly my whole post written and lost it. Greetings fellow Bunnies! Hope everyone is well. I've been having issues the last few weeks, I've had some additional weight lose but it's been costly. I started being able to eat less and less solid foods and have mostly been doing soups and protein drinks. My GERD issues got worse. I even started throwing up at night and then the throwing up started happening during the day. I called my Dr last week and got scheduled for an unfill he took out 1cc I could feel some relief, soup I had for lunch move through the band, but I panicked a bit and had him put half back in which resulted in .5cc being taken out. It takes a few days for me to actually tell how things are my symptoms didn't get better in fact last weekend was so bad I almost went to the ER. I got back in yesterday for an additional unfill and he took out all he could, 2.75cc, leaving about 1cc in according to him (my calculations show me having more). I have to had an upperGI done and a EGD(?) scope to make sure my band hasn't slipped or something. All of this right before vacation. One of my biggest concerns is if I have to have surgery to correct the band that it won't be covered by insurance. So how's everyone else?