Hi everyone !! I am having two surgical procedures during the month of March. Both of them completely unrelated to my band. On March 1st I have a standard fill appt with my doctor and I'll inform him at the time that since I am NOT Having the surgeries at the same hospital that he works out of (and the facility I am having it done at does not have doctor's familiar with or prepared for an emergency unfill) that he should remove all Fluid (just in case of issues after surgery), then in April at my next scheduled appt I will start the whole darn process over again of starting from scratch. I could switch all my doctors around and have these two procedures done at the lap band hospital but I feel like they punish me for not wanting to travel 90 miles one way for two separate surgery dates.

So, my question, has anyone else had to have surgeries that required them to remove their fluid, and if so, did you find that you gained during that time period it was out. Also, did anyone opt to not inform their band doctor about a procedure and leave the fluid in without incident???? I know I know that's sneaky but i'm just NOW getting to a restriction level that has me losing consistently!!!! It has taken me 4 mos to get to this point!!! ARGH! Anyways, hit me with some ideas :thumbdown:

I would just ask your doc, he may say there is no need to take it out. you never know.

I actually had my port replaced and didn't have have to have an unfill. I wonder if it is a liability issue?

my concern about not talking to your doc is IF something goes wrong and you didnt tell him will there be a liability problem,,, ?

Why do you need to have the fluid taken out? Surely so long as you inform the anaesthetist etc they should be able to work with it.