I was reading a different thread where a new bandster was going to be discharged the same day as surgery. I'm curious... how many of you stayed overnight? Did your surgeon do a barium swallow after surgery to check for leaks? There was a very high profile case here in Michigan involving a Detroit city councilwoman. She died after her band surgery because the surgeon nicked her stomach with the instruments. A barium swallow after surgery will catch any nicks/leaks, so it became standard procedure at my hospital. What was your experience?

Yes, I had one the following day and it wasn't bad at all.

barium swallow under fluro 2 hrs after surgery

sipped on water and ice chips, and walked around the hospital floor until I was discharged 3 hrs after fluro

OK, I cant resist! Immediately after SX? :omg: Is that SEX or SURGERY? LOL. Ok, OK, I'll shut up now. My mind is in the gutter!:heh:

I had surgery at 7:30 a.m. and had to swallow something (God, it was awful, but I don't think it was barium. It was the consistency of honey and bitter, bitter...makes me want to throw up just remembering it!!) the next morning. Then they kept me until 6 p.m., but I think just because the surgeon had office hours and didn't have time to check me over and OK discharge.

Emily

I had barium meal the next morning and thort it the most grossest thing i had....i shivered and the radiologist told me off for moving hahahaahah...

Dee

I sure hope that when I get out of surgery, it isn't this clear stuff they had me drink once when I had gallbladder trouble and they were going to do a CAT scan.

It made me so sick they had to emit me into the ER. The vomiting was so violent, my blood pressure dipped down. I'll have to mention that to the doctor. Barium, the chalky stuff I don't have a problem with. They other stuff...no way.

I have never been so sick in my life, I though I was going to die.

:help:

I had surgery at noon on a Monday and drank that gastrograph crap at 6 p.m. that night. After 18 hours with no fluids, gastrograph is a cruel joke. I wanted water and they gave me a big cup of that stuff. It tastes kind of like a licorice-flavored cough syrup--blech. However, watching the fluids pass through the band on the T.V. screen was fun. I was released from the hospital at 7 p.m., went to the 24-hour Walgreen's for my liquid pain meds (tasted surprisingly similar to gastrograph), and was sleeping in my own bed by 8:30. I'm lucky; my husband is an RN (doesn't work as one, but still keeps up his license). He worked from home for two days and brought me water, meds, fluffy slippers, and warm dog. You don't get that at the hospital (well, not the dog...).

I had surgery at nine am and was discharged at 1pm, with no barium swallow. They did, however, make sure I could pee before leaving.

I hope that I get a barium swallow...I would rather them catch a leak before I leave than to die certainly! Who cares what it tastes like, it's your life at stake here, better to be safe than sorry!

I stayed one night in the hospital and had a barium swallow the morning after my surgery.

I stayed overnight and did a Barium swallow. I also had to swallow some other nasty substance. I was not allowed to eat or drink anything after midnight on the day of surgery. That s**t was so gross I felt like crying. I had to take like 7-8 sips of both I almost finished both I drank so much. One was yellowish and the Barium was thick and white. I'm happy it was done. I'd rather catch a problem earlier that suffer the consequences later on.

Absolutely no Barium for me !!

I could barely swallow Water and more than 4 weeks later I'm still very tight.

In my surgeons defence, out of the high number of surgeries he has completed, his only one with complication turned out to be an infection from the band itself. He now gets all sizes out and personally sterilises them!

He is so meticulous I trusted he knew what he was doing by not giving me a B.S. :biggrin:

Plus I hate that stuff... had one 4 months before surgery due to throat lesions:huh2:

Rach.

I had a barium swallow ame it wasnt't that bad the worse part was the nurse making me stand up by miself after anestecia and not shielding me other than that it wwas jusst thick and metaly tasting

I hope that I get a barium swallow...I would rather them catch a leak before I leave than to die certainly! Who cares what it tastes like, it's your life at stake here, better to be safe than sorry!

What exactly is a Barium Swallow???

What exactly is a Barium Swallow???

You swallow barium while an X-ray machine is on you. The X-ray shows the path of the barium as it goes through your digestive system. It shows if their are any abnormalities in your stomach or esophagus.

I had to have one done after one of my supervised diet visits, at the surgeons office. Everybody scared me by saying how nasty it is, but it didn't bother me. I drank it right down and then drank the Water after it was done. The whole think took about 5 minutes.