Hello guys,

I hope someone can help me to know what I should do and if anyone has gone through the same. I had my lap band surgery in 2009, lost weight slowly and steadily, minor discomfort but its becoming more and more uncomfortable and painful to eat for the last year. Until recently I started to throw up at night (reflux) and just recently I am throwing up brown liquid. Today morning it was very obvious from the taste of it that I am throwing up blood. I have been going to doctors and they suspect it might be the lap band and I looked everywhere on the net I am not getting enough info, some suggested a hole in stomach and I am freaking out.

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Did anyone go through the same? and how this issue can be solved?

Thanks

Slim2009

Not to freak you out, but if you are vomiting blood you need to quit trying to self diagnose via the internet and get into your surgeon immediately. Possibly even go to the ER if you can't see him within the next 24 hours. Internal bleeding is nothing to mess around with.

Good luck

I had my surgery in Dubai and I moved to Canada last year. Lap band surgeons here are very commercial. Refused to see me and they have weird commercial packages.

I saw a doctor couple of days ago he will refer me to a specialist in the next couple of days.

I am so nervous for you if it gets worse before then please go to the ER immediately especailly is it becomesbright tedblood

Ok, im freaked out. Going to my General doctor now. I just need to know in advance, if anyone has gone through the same and how was it solved.

Hello, yes I have been there. I was banded in 2008 and lost 65 pounds but always cheated. Then two years ago I wasn't able to keep anything down and was vomiting 2-3 times a day. My stomach felt like a "raw piece of meat." I was constantly taking antacids and had horrible reflux to the point I had to sleep sitting up. I was just miserable but since I was banded in Oregon and now lived in Arizona that made it difficult to go in to see a doctor. My doctor didn't know what to do for me and said maybe I should go back to Oregon and see my old doc???? Oh, boy!!

Anyway, one day I started throwing up brown coffee-ground looking Fluid and thru the Internet I figured out this was blood. I went to my closest ER and they sent me home with Vicodin--just what I needed for my stomach ache. I called my old doc and she recommended a doctor in Phoenix and this required another trip to the ER and they put me in bed. I waited and waited but no one knew what to do--finally a PA came by and said he was going to release the fill and that did it. I threw on my clothes and got out of there.

I still have problems with eating too fast or too much and have to vomit to relieve the pressure in my stomach. I am pretty sure the band has slipped or twisted because I do have some restriction. I am interested in knowing what you find out because your symptoms are exactly like mine.

Good luck to you and I feel your pain.

Just came back from clinic. Xrays shows band is too tight. (it was the same since 2010 why not its tight I have no clue). But they need to see inside to tell why the bloodish liquid.

thanks for sharing. Ill keep you posted.

May

* why now it became tight I meant.

To me it sounds as though you have some kind of erosion. The other possibility would be a stomach ulcer. I think that they should do more tests just to make sure that everything is OK.