Ok so I have have the lap band for a little over a year now and, for the most part, everything's been great. I've lost almost 100 pounds and don't regret doing it, but for the last three months I feel like I've had problem after problem. It started when I went for a fill, then got home and couldn't eat of drink anything. I went for an unfill and it was better. Then for the next three consecutive fills, I had the same problem where I'd have to go for an unfill right afterwards. During this time there was a lot of vomiting during the last two, too tight episodes pain in the stomach area. I then went on vacation after getting a fill, everything was fine but ten days later I couldn't eat or drink anything and the pain was back. I went to the ER, had an x-ray where the surgeon I say, not my regular surgeon, said the band had slipped. He took out all of the fluid waited a few hours and then had me do a barium swallow and pronounced that the band had righted itself. A month later I go back to my regular doctor (this was today) tell him the story and he fills me up (6 cc's, the er doc had taken out 7cc's). Now I can drink just fine, I can't try food yet, but I have the intense, throbbing pain in my chest, stomach area. It won't go away despite me taking pain medication. Anyone ever have these issues?
Ok so I have have the lap band for a little over a year now and, for the most part, everything's been great. I've lost almost 100 pounds and don't regret doing it, but for the last three months I feel like I've had problem after problem. It started when I went for a fill, then got home and couldn't eat of drink anything. I went for an unfill and it was better. Then for the next three consecutive fills, I had the same problem where I'd have to go for an unfill right afterwards. During this time there was a lot of vomiting during the last two, too tight episodes pain in the stomach area. I then went on vacation after getting a fill, everything was fine but ten days later I couldn't eat or drink anything and the pain was back. I went to the ER, had an x-ray where the surgeon I say, not my regular surgeon, said the band had slipped. He took out all of the fluid waited a few hours and then had me do a barium swallow and pronounced that the band had righted itself. A month later I go back to my regular doctor (this was today) tell him the story and he fills me up (6 cc's, the er doc had taken out 7cc's). Now I can drink just fine, I can't try food yet, but I have the intense, throbbing pain in my chest, stomach area. It won't go away despite me taking pain medication. Anyone ever have these issues?