Vomiting and now pain..need some advice

[~Michelle~ 0]

Sunday I had a stomach thing going on. I was dry heaving and then fianally threw up some. There was really nothing in my stomach, so it was just mostly stomach acid. Took some anti-nausea meds, and felt better. So today where my band is, is still sore. I can eat and drink and have no acid reflux, but it's really tender. I called my surgeon and he suggested I wait a little bit for it to all calm down, but that if I wanted to I could come in for an upper GI. I am kind of freaking out worried about slippage or that some kind of damage was done. Has anybody experienced this? Should I get the upper GI or wait it out a few days?

[Astrasmom 1]

Sunday I had a stomach thing going on. I was dry heaving and then fianally threw up some. There was really nothing in my stomach, so it was just mostly stomach acid. Took some anti-nausea meds, and felt better. So today where my band is, is still sore. I can eat and drink and have no acid reflux, but it's really tender. I called my surgeon and he suggested I wait a little bit for it to all calm down, but that if I wanted to I could come in for an upper GI. I am kind of freaking out worried about slippage or that some kind of damage was done. Has anybody experienced this? Should I get the upper GI or wait it out a few days?

chances are you just irritated your pouch where the band is. It's probably a bit swollen right now. I would suggest what your surgeon said and wait a couple of days. If then it doesn't calm down then I would go for the Upper GI but yes it has happened to me. And I'm sure I'm not alone on this.

Sorry you were sick but glad that you are feeling better. Keep us posted and let us know what your outcome of this was.

[lauragshsu 6]

I definitely would wait. I had the same thing after a band overfill, where I was dry heaving, then actually vomiting. It was sore/tender around my band and in my stomach as a whole for about 3 days, but everything went back to normal.

Hope you're feeling better!