Long story short, I have a doc appointment today with my general doc (my lap band surgeon is in Louisville, KY, we are Army, I am in Watertown, NY) to see if she can give me a referral for my band.

I had a baby 2 years ago and had my band completely unfilled when I got preggo. I had the baby :cool2: and the Army moved us to NY. 2 years later, I am having major chest pains, major restriction (remember, my band is empty), I am getting food stuck all the time now :blushing:

Being that there is no local lap band doc, nor bariatric surgeons, I am looking at travelling 2 hours just to get in to see someone qualified to see what my problems are?! eeek:(

The fact that I am unfilled and am getting stuck tells me there is something wrong! I don't know who to go to, who to ask to be referred to, ar anything!

Anyone know who the next best surgeon would be to do an endoscopy or something?!

Anyone know of an upstate, NY doc?

Does this sound like a slip, or something else? I have been losing weight on my own- would that be causing the band to move around in there?

Help, please

Thanks in advance,

karly

i hope by now that you have found someone to deal with your band!

i live in carthage (about 10 mins from watertown-army too :thumbup:) and am in need of a band dr. i called tricare and they told me that there was one that practices at samaritan hospital??

who/how far did you have to go?