TraceyP

Hi there! I am so sorry you have struggled with your weight. I was 350 when I had my surgery. Please please please just do me one favor before getting the band placed, talk to your doctor in depth about the risk. My surgery was in May 2009 to place the band and then removed in August 2009 and it has been one nightmare after another and I am still suffering severly. I have lost 85 pounds but now I am sick and I was fine before just fat! Please seek all the information you can!

Hello, here is my story(keeping it short and not so sweet) and I am looking for anyone else out there who may have experienced the same thing. On May 18th 2009 I had my LAP-BAND®® placed. I was fine for the first four weeks only being able to eat very very minimal(way less then my surgeon said) . Then the nightmare began, I started nonstop vomiting and vomiting and vomiting. I was admitted to the hospital and waited for July fourth to come around and my surgeon to decide something needed to be done. I underwent a LAP-BAND®® adjument and a hernia repair. Thinking all was well I was released two days later. I then started the nonstop vomiting and SEVERE stomach pain. I was admitted to the hospital again spending another three weeks in there doped up on pain meds. Then I told my surgeon I believed the band was causing this and I wanted it OUT!!! Sometime at the start of Aug 2009 (to doped up on pain meds to remember)they removed the band. Since then I have spent a total of 6 more weeks in the hospital with severe vomiting and severe stomach pain. The band has been out for two months yet I am still in constant pain and vomit almost after every little morsal I can eat. Has anyone else had anything like this occur and how can I get help. My surgeon has washed his hands of me and the GI docs think it was because I became addiceted to the pain meds? The ones they prescribed to me ! HELP I need to know there is a light at the end of my tunnel of darkness. I was never sick before the surgery just FAT:mad: