I went to get a fill today and the doctor put the needle in my port and went to pull out fluid and it was brown. He has ordered me to get a procedure where they put a tube down your throat to see if my band has eroded. Has anyone ever seen or heard anything like this before. I am so nervous. Thanks for your feedback.

I am kind of late answering and you might have gotten your answers but I heard someone who had that and it was very serious. Did you have your answers yet?

Yes, Tamana, please post and let us know how you are doing. I never saw your original post or I would have posted a response.

Mimi

WOW Mimi you did great with weight loss. Mine is a fail, how did you do it?

Spirit, I was overfilled several times and barfed my wt down then liked it (the low wt) and work like crazy to maintain it!!!!! I have a trainer 3 times a week and still count calories. Thanks for your kind words.

Mimi

I don't count calories but I run and walk 6 days a week. Right now I only have 2.2 cc and so tight I feel like I have a rock in my chest. I am going for defill and feel like I want this band out!!!!

I am sorry for your distress. I hope the defill makes you feel better.

Mimi

I am kind of late answering and you might have gotten your answers but I heard someone who had that and it was very serious. Did you have your answers yet?

I went and had a endoscopy and they said my band has not eroded. What was it that you heard that was serious?

A man who had a brown liquid from his port had port replaced but after a month had bigger complications. He is on you tube thegerm1.

Tamana, I am so happy you have no erosion. I wonder if by chance he aspirated (sucked back) an old hematoma/bruise? That would be wonderful and mean nothing was wrong.

Mimi

I don't know what it was but I am going back in 2 weeks to see if there is still brown fluid. Now someone told me about this guy who had brown fluid and it turned out that he got a septic infection and had to have his band removed. I do not have any other symptoms of anything else but the fact that my doctor said he has never seen this before sort of worries me. Thanks for your responses.

Thats the guy, geremy on you tube. His was same issue and then one day he was very ill and was admitted to hospital and they had to reconstruct his stomach. Watch his video.

I watched his video and actually sent him an e-mail. I cannot figure out if the brown fluid from his band was the first thing that happened??? It sounds like he was having alot of issues. Also his band had eroded and so far mine has not. I have an appt. next Thursday but I am so worried that the same thing can happen to me. My doctor is out of town this week. I also had some blood work done last week so I will find out the results today. Thank you so much for your concern and responses. By the way...I was looking at your weight loss and you have done an amazing job. Good for you and keep up the good work. I have to start exercising again because my weight is creeping up rapidly now that I have no restriction.

I went to get a fill today and the doctor put the needle in my port and went to pull out Fluid and it was brown. He has ordered me to get a procedure where they put a tube down your throat to see if my band has eroded. Has anyone ever seen or heard anything like this before. I am so nervous. Thanks for your feedback.

I have heard of it. I recently had a port site infection. It was an abscessed infection. I had been pulling weeds in the yard and I thought I was just sore because my abdomen kept hitting my upper thigh. But then I noticed I was getting really sore at the sight and I had a slight fever and I was so tired, So I made an appt. to see the surgeon and he immediately made me go the ER to get a CT of the abdomen. My surgeon showed up in the ER to see me he used a needle and syringe and drew out some brown fluid. It was yucky. He had me get an endoscopy to see if the band had erroded into the stomach. It didn't. I had the port removed and now deciding on if I should get it replaced or not. How are you doing now? I hope you are ok.

I ended up having my band removed. I was originally going to switch out the port because my doctor thought that was the problem but I decided that since I was having surgery anyways, I would just have the whole thing out. I figure that eventually the band would have to come out because as far as I know, there has not been research done showing that you can have the band forever without any problems. Ends up that I made the right decision because when my doctor took the band out, he saw that it had basically cracked halfway between the port and the band so a port revision would not have worked anyways. How are you doing? Did you have the port replaced? I gotta tell you though that I miss my band alot. I have put on about 10 pounds since having it removed and had put on 10 pounds between the time that the brown fluid was discovered and I had the band removed. I am not a happy camper right now but working hard trying to get this weight off.

I have not had the port replaced yet. I am supposed to go back to the surgeon next Wednesday. I also miss having the restriction. I am not sure what to do. I want to continue what I started with loosing weight, but I am afraid it will happen again. Also I haven't been feeling too good lately. Something just doesn't feel right on my stomach. Maybe it is just gas. :frown:

I just don't know. Part of me says "get it out! your body doesn't want it in there" another part of me says " you need to loose weight look how well it worked just try it one more time" all I know is that I want to feel good again and I am not sure that the band is the answer. Thank you so much for updating me on how you are doing.