Wow! What a day! We walked into the Dr's office expecting a needle some cool fluoroscope pictures and out the door. WRONG! The freeze spray was easy. The needle was easy, I actually held the needle in place so the Dr could adjust the scope. She then gave me a Dixie cup of barium and had me drink it. Then she shot all 14cc's on saline to close off the stoma. She was watching the scope and removing the saline to get the flow they wanted and it hit me. I felt a bit lite headed but still OK. She removed the needle and asked me how are you feeling? I said I feel a bit wobbly. Then my vision started to "tunnel" my hearing started to dim, think Charlie Brown's teacher, I got cold, then hot, then the sweat started to pop. It took everything in me to not pass out. I felt my wife next to me, holding my hand and asking me if I was OK. I could not answer, I wanted to but I was trying to concentrate on not hitting the floor. I heard every muffled word but could not respond. After about 5 hours(felt like it to me!), 15 minutes I started to come out of it. The sweats came back. I sat there for about 5 more minutes and stood up and felt OK. My wife looked like she was about to pass out now! She was a trooper. She did and said all the right things. I think she had designs on kicking the stuffing out of the Dr. I wish they would have given us a bit of a warning that this might happen. They told my wife "oh this happens all the time" By the time I walked out the front door I felt fine. My insides were a bit shaky but I well enough to drive. All in all a "fun"day!

They told us it was the Vasovagal Response. The vagus nerve runs from your head through your abdomen and when they did the fill, (I'm guessing) they cut off its circulation. They said it's common, but neither of us remember them saying anything about it. Just that he may feel lightheaded. That's an understatement!

Any one else have this responce?

I have had 5 fills and also get the vasovagal reaction. It was worse for the first 3 and I barely had any issues on fills 4 and 5. It is very scary. Hopefully yours will lessen with each fill too!

That surprises me about Dr. Curry's technique. It would scare the bejeezus out of me to go back.

My fills were always a piece of cake. No "can't find the port" issues, no pain, conservative but acceptable fills...very happy.

Sorry you had to go thru that. If you really don't want to have that happen again, please ask them to be conservative in their fills. Better to be safe than sorry. With the way some swell after a fill, I wouldn't think it would be a very accurate way to guage what level to put in. But it seems that docs all have their own ideas of what is appropriate.

Good luck on your journey!

The reason this was so scary to me and the wife was we were not given any warning this might happen. We were told I might get a little light headed but that is all that was said.

They told me the next fill would be only 1-2cc's and I would be laying down.

Even with the "shock" of my first fill I am still glad I got the band. I have lost 6 lbs since last Friday. I feel restriction and now I am only fighting the head hunger. So far I have fought the good fight.

This happened once to meduring my third fill. The PA explained that it is your body's defence mechanism to having a foreign object (the needle) introduced. Your blood pressure drops giving you that light headedness and sweats. After a few minutes you recover and everything gets back to normal. Never had a problem since.

i did get a little lightheaded wen i had my first fill. I only had 3 cc's and just a needle and cup

This is how mine are done as well.

My Dr does the same.. No worries. Doesn't hurt:thumbup: