cindy54

The surgeon never gave me a satisfactory answer as to what went wrong. My friends told me I should sue him. He wanted to put fluid in the band during surgery and everything I had read said that there was a waiting period of six weeks. Unfortunately, I trusted his judgement and I believe that's where the problem started. I began to vomit and went back into the hospital the next day after having spent the night of the surgery in the hospital because I had sleep apnea. Then I got aspiration pneumonia and went into ICU. I was back on a regular ward for a few days and remained nauseated and then he came and told me that the band had slipped and part of my stomach had died and that they needed to do an open surgery to take the lapband out. When I was awake, I realized that they weren't able to close my abdomen because of a bad infection. Back into ICU. Like I said 20 days in the hospital and I had a visiting nurse for two months until my abdomen closed . I still had a pleural effusion three months after the pneumonia. Think carefully and take care.

After 20 days in the hospital (and twice in ICU) after having a lapband placed, I STRONGLY suggest that any surgery be considered very carefully. I researched the lapband for three years before my surgery and the procedure and complications almost killed me. God be with you all.