I've had my gastric band almost three years now and it has, for the most part been a success, I'm down 100lbs but it's been very slow progress- I'm okay with that, slow and steady.... I've had one experience of having my band tightened too much which was just as horrific as others have described on this site but what I am experiencing at the moment has me a little baffled.

Basically I got my band tightened three weeks ago which beings me up to 6.25cc in my band, when I had my incident of being too tight I was at 6.5cc. So from Wednesday of this week (after three weeks of the band being tightened) the following starts happening;

When I go to bed and lie down my stomach starts gurgling uncontrollably and constantly, and I'm burping the whole time.... really, it's constant...

When I eventually manage to get to sleep I wake up suddenly with a small amount of bile in the back of my throat which i have to cough up to clear...

I have tried drinking peppermint tea and taking some motilium which does reduce the gurgling/ burping aspects but I don't want to be a slave to this routine. Also during the day I have uncontrollable gurgles which just literally come out of no where... Oh and on Thursday I had a cup of hot tea and a glass of Water which I couldn't keep down, I threw them both up about 5 mins after I drank them.

I will admit that my emotions do influence my band...if you can believe that!! I.e. If I'm upset or tense my band gets tighter ...bit I haven't had any emotional moments this week...apart from the fact that I can't slep because of the bile and gurgling.

Anybody have any clue what is going on with my band?

All suggestions welcome!!

Sara

I do not know what might be happening, but I am the same with the band getting tighter if I am not well physically or emotionally. I always have to give a new fill about three weeks before I know how it is going to go, because I swell every time I get a fill.

I have 7.5 in mine. I never had the problems with sleeping as you have described.

But that it one of the questions my Dr always asks me, so it is something they look out for. So I would speak with your Dr.

You are too tight. If you are getting bile in your throat, you could be aspirating it and that causes coughing too. Tell your Dr about these symptoms and at the least they should take some Fluid out of your band.

Keep an eye on this, that burbling bile could be the first small signs of a slip. Don't fool around with it, get it checked.

So sayeth the lady who has a slipped band and a revision surgery in two days.

I would tell your doc about this. You might be overfilled or have problems with acid reflux.

Sometimes i get night coughs but if I take meds for acid reflux in the am before any food I am ok and dont need an unfill.

Sometimes your band just gets a little swollen and we dont really realize at first. It could be from a day of over eating or eating something that is hard for your band to work with.

I would do 2 days liquids and def see the doc. Maybe have an endoscope? when is the last time you did that?

Your band is too tight. This happened to me recently. I tried a hundred ways to live with it because I was losing weight like crazy but finally had to go in and have it loosened a bit. I woke up choking every night and began to worry about my lungs. I'll have a little put back in a month.

Too tight.