hi

Is an endoscopy test like a gastroscopy?

The dr have emptied my band about a week ago and instead of the pain going away it has intensified a lot.....I get the spasms I got directly after the operation.When I lie on my left side I get an intense pain on the right side...I constantly get a "chest pain",intense pressure,even when I breathe in.All theses symptoms got a lot better after I started having fills......only the pressure and reflux and heartburn remained.....now since the unfill, no reflux,no heartburn at all.............

The dr said to wait 10 days and then I will go for and endoscopy test.Never had one before......

Since my band have been emptied I have realized that my habits havent changed and now that I am seriously stressed about all this I am eating a whole lot of junk and that compulsiveness about food is right back....and with that a wopper gain of 4kg in 10 days.......and I am not really eating day and night..lol..

So,I know that this band have been helping me a lot over the past 6 months in that I wasnt always thinking about food and I wasnt always eating.....and I wish that whatever was wrong would just go away by miracle so that I can fill it up again and feel better about myself....because when I dont battle the food demon 24 hours a day my life is a lot better....

Ok,I dont know why I wrote this post.I have struggled so much with the band that it sometimes seems that I was only negative about it.

Maybe I just needed to say that now that I have come to the point where I might be losing it I just dont know what I will do without it......and with that came the realization that if you dont have pain and discomfort with the band it must be great to have the right kind of control over eating.

They are both basically the same procedure. If you have had one then you know exactly what will happen. They will insert an IV line in your arm to give you medication to relax you and a tube with eyepiece will be induced through the mouth and into the stomach to take video pictures. It sounds horrible, but actually you are pretty much out of it, and you probably didn't find it that bad if you had one of them. You are pretty much looking at the same procedure. Good luck to you.

Desertmom,

I am so sorry to hear about all of this misery going on surrounding your band. Goodness!

Did the doctor have any opinions as to why you were having this pain?

And the unfill made it worst???

This may end up being something very small and fixable with the right medication (hopefully). Isnt it funny how our outlook changes on something when feel that we may lose it?

hi Paula,

I also think it might be something fixable.It might be something like a stitch in the wrong place or a chronic gastritis or eusophagitis....or something....but it took me until now to get them to look at it seriously......so will update next week.....

Do we need to have an endoscopy every so often as part of our checkups???

Do we need to have an endoscopy every so often as part of our checkups???

Jenna, since you are an Ortiz patient I will tell you what he told me. Ortiz & martinez like their patients to have an endoscopy at the 18 month to 2 year post op mark. If erosion occurs it will usualyy occur in this timeframe and Iam an example of that. I had an endo at 1 yr while under the knife for my bowel obstruction surgery and had no erosion. I had a fill in July and no erosion. My erosion happened between the 15th and 19th month post op . Everyone should have an endo after 18 months post opaccording to Dr. Ortiz . I had my 2nd endo 19 months post op ...Francesca also had her endo at the 17 month post op and she had erosion. Call Dr. Martinez he will tell you what he told me.

but it took me until now to get them to look at it seriously

Thats a little scary. Id hate to think what would happen if you wouldnt have persisted the issue.

Please update us - were thinking of ya!