getfit48

I had my band placed 6 weeks ago. First 2 weeks were great! Then the trouble started - couldn't keep anything down for 3 weeks, was told it was "soft tissue" swelling - last week doc went it to "unbuckle" the band - and I came out with a drain, NG tube, antibiotics, and doc said "your stomach looked like a hard piece of rubber - an abscess had formed next to the band btw my stomach and liver - finally went home - no band - just lots of antibiotics to hopefully keep the abscess from returning and aspiration pneumonia in the process. Lap band surgery - $3200 for "what insurance doesn't pay"; complications - 1 week out of work with no pay - hopefully living through this with no more hope of losing weight - priceless. I have lost 25lbs in this nightmare of 6 weeks and still keep nothing down except liquids - and sometimes the antibiotics. The band is an invasive, tricky surgery and although my surgeon states she has never seen someone reject the band like this - I don't believe her. I would NEVER recommend this surgery to anyone. I said 2 months ago that I was going to lose the weight or die trying - it looks like the latter is more likely to be true. Orange Coast Memorial Center for Obesity is not where you want to place your life.

Well, it would be more accurate I suppose, to say it is more like constant regurgitation/burping - I feel like a baby - eat, burp- I am afraid to go out in public-as I was this past weekend- because I was regurgitating on myself all the time- maybe if I had a baby blanket and burp rag I could pretend it wasn't me. But it is getting old! And I NEVER had this problem before

I had the band 4 weeks ago. The first 2 weeks were smooth sailing - I thought it was great- I could eat small portions of most anything- and I didn't even know what it was like for anything to come back up:frown:! Then 10 days ago, I think a green bean started it all - I couldn't even keep down liquids for 2 days - now I am still on liquids and night time is miserable - I have to sleep sitting up and still am coughing and retching every night. Doc says it is soft tissue trauma- swelling and it will get better - I am wondering if this was such a great idea - anybody else experience this?