Applex100

I meant that I took all the fluid out of my band by putting a needle into my port and withdrawing all the fluidwith a syringe. I only did this because it was an extreme emergency and there is no surgical back up were I live, only general surgeons who would have taken me to theatre and performed open surgery.

Having a slippage is the most horrible feeling,you will not be able to eat and probably will be only able to drink a few sips if at all. You may vomit up old blood. I did the first two times and at night time you will have to sleep sitting up as you could aspirate your vomit into your lungs. The pain is unbelievable. My third slippage happened after eating chicken that seemed to stick in me and after vomiting up the old blood I aspirated the band myself because it was the middle of the night and my surgeon lives in another country. I knew that this was the correct thing to do, after contacting my surgeon he said he would operate the next day. So after flying to Europe, he operated that evening. I had a big anterior slippage of the stomach with symptoms of incaration through the gastric band. there was also an obstruction of a loop of the small intestion by the tubing of the gastric band. Please don't let my experiences put anyone off getting a band. It did work for me in relation to losing weight but I had to have a lot of surgery and spent a lot of money to get to my ideal weight, and now that I have no band I am afraid that I will go back to my orginal weight ( weight is slowly creeping on again). I would get banded again tomorrow if I had any guantee that it would 100% not slip on me.

I've had three slippages,and two different bands. I guess the band is not suitable for everyone. I really miss my band, and would love another one because my weight is going up again. I had reached my ideal weight, and was very happy with my band when it slipped, but am afraid to get another one in case the same thing happens again.