I am in the hospital due to gastroparesis. My band doc is trying to decide the best course of action. I am thinking a lap band removal would be the best course of action for me. I have lost one band and regained half my wt. I am 100 lbs overwt at this time. I am thinking that my safest course of action might be to just ask for it to be removed and then if I can't maintain or loose, go for possible sleeve. This is the pits. My Mexican surgeon who placed the last band, tried very hard to get me to be sleeved instead but since I had lost all my wt with the first band, I felt certain that this would be my best safest route! Well I made the best decision I knew to make at the time.

Being 100 lbs overwt is better than being dead. If anyone has had gastroparesis, please reply and let me know anything you can share!

Thanks, Corliss

Can't say I know anything about your problem, just wanted to send best wishes along to you to feel better soon. Sorry that LapBands didn't work out for you.

Take care.

Sue

Me and my wife got gastroparesis 2 years after the surgery. Do you no if the lap-band causes this?

I am in the hospital due to gastroparesis. My band doc is trying to decide the best course of action. I am thinking a LAP-BAND® removal would be the best course of action for me. I have lost one band and regained half my wt. I am 100 lbs overwt at this time. I am thinking that my safest course of action might be to just ask for it to be removed and then if I can't maintain or loose, go for possible sleeve. This is the pits. My Mexican surgeon who placed the last band, tried very hard to get me to be sleeved instead but since I had lost all my wt with the first band, I felt certain that this would be my best safest route! Well I made the best decision I knew to make at the time.

Being 100 lbs overwt is better than being dead. If anyone has had gastroparesis, please reply and let me know anything you can share!

Thanks, Corliss

Me and my wife got gastroparesis 2 years after the surgery. Do you no if the lap-band® causes this?

I had two bariatric specialist tell me that they don't believe the band causes the gastroparesis. I had gall bladder surgery 2 wks before the first episode and the surgeon who did it doesn't believe the gallbladder surgery or anesthesia from it could have caused it though all areas are suspect in my opinion. One bariatric specialist said that the gallbladder might not have even been causing me pain that it could have been the gastroparesis all along. I was discharged without exploratory surgery the first time and readmitted the next day. My bariatric surgeon did an exploratory lap and found that indeed my stomach was swollen up and hung over my lap band tubing. He did not think it had been there long because it lifted off so easily. He then tacked my fundus of my stomach to my inner abdominal wall and put in a temporary gastrostomy tube. The tube is out now, but the stomach tacking is no fun. I can feel it when I cough. YUK!

Hope all goes well for the two of you. My doc put me on reglan for the gastroparesis. Itcauses lots of stinky stools and cramping.

Corliss