Hi. I was admitted to hospital on Thursday with severe dehydration, and exhaustion after not having kept anything down for nearly a week.

I now know that it is because my bad has slipped.

I have got to see the surgeon this week, and am very worried about what he will do.

Please could people share their stories of similar experience with me.

Thankyou.

My understanding is that they unfill your band completely and see if it settles into place-this could take several weeks. I am not sure if you wentt a Center of Excellence but I believe they now stitch the band in such a way to try to avoid a slip. Lots of people have had slips on this forum-consider it a bump in the road not the end of a journey. Wishing you well!

I have just had the same thing happen. At first my surgeon thought that it was a slight slip (from results of an upper GI), so he took all the fluid out of the band and put me on a liquid diet for 2 weeks. He repeated the upper GI and did a scope where it showed things had gotten worse, so I had to have laproscopic surgery. He found a hiatal hernia that had caused my band to slip and he repaired both. We think this happened after my tummy tuck. I hope yours isn't this bad. Good Luck! By the way I am 5 years post op and have lost 105 pounds and kept it off.

I've been struggling with slipping for nearly 4 months now, and finally went in for revision surgery last week. Just do what your dr recommends and know that you can and will get better. I am! It's discouraging, but it can be overcome.

Hi,

Laura71 is right. I had repair surgery in Oct. The surgeon thought he might have to remove the lapband and replace it in 2 months. But, he was able to repair it instead. I am doing fine. It takes awhile to get back to restriction after the slip, but finally am and maintaining okay. Good luck and Happy New Year to you! Karen

Thankyou everyone for your feedback, I appreciate it, and I will update when I have seen the surgeon.