Ok, you will literally be saying, "Did he really just ask that?" after you read my question, but I am completely serious. Can you experience slippage from pushing too hard when pooping? Or for that matter, from straining too hard while weight lifting?

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Anyone else who has experienced some of those odd side-effects of being banded, feel free to chime in with your experiences! Thanks again everyone for this fantastic community you've built

As long as your surgery is completely healed, I don't see how pooping or lifting could be dangerous to your band. The stomach is a muscle itself and the colon is the organ that delivers waste to the rectum.

I've experienced gas but not much more than normal.

Not that I have ever heard of. Great questions , by the way!

I don't think either pose a risk, especially not the pooping. Without too much great detail, I've had some pretty bad constipation episodes after surgery and never even felt the strain on my stomach let alone hurt my band or port.

I suppose the weight lifting could possibly effect your port if you moved weird while lifting a great deal of weight, but I doubt the risk would be any greater than that of a hernia.

If you plan on doing a lot of weight lifting, I'd ask your surgeon just to be safe.

Great questions, btw

I don't believe so. After my two week post-surgery check up I was encouraged to start exercising which included sit-ups if I so desired. Your question isn't weird, it's normal, the simplest things make us nervous of a slip. The first time I had sex four nights out of surgery I was SURE that my port was torn from my abdominal wall....LOL!!

Having lost all my excess weight and in the green for 2 years now, the only posts that concern me here are about "slippage" and "erosion" and I always pay close attention.

It is a topic I always bring up with my Dr. on my visits also....

This is my opinion.....not that it does not happen to people, and I have my therories as to why it happens, but the majority of people here talk about "slippage" being caused by just about everything....it's like the "You'll shoot your eye out kid" syndrome....

Don't do this or your band will slip, don't do that because your band will slip.....it's used to justify about everything....

No one ever stops to ask "How" will doing this or that cause a band to slip??? No one seems to stop and examine it closley....

I read a post the other day and someone responded by saying you should not do that because it will cause your band to slip..."WHAT?" I wanted to jump through the computer screen.....then I look and see this person has only been banded less that a year...so, consider the source....

I have asked my Dr. about this and that, and he always gets a good laugh and asks where the heck did I ever hear that??? Just go and live a normal life and don't loose sleep over it....

The same is for ports flipping...it does happen, but do people really understand and ask themselves "Why?" and "How?" that can possibly happen?

I have my therory(s) why it happens to some people.....and doing everyday activities is not one of them...(unless your band - port was never properly installed in the first place)

Unlikely as the stomach does not flex with either activity. That's like asking if I jump up and down will it fall off Just have to remember which muscles are contracting etc

From what I've been told there's practically nothing you can do outside your body to hurt your band. The main things to worry about are what you put in your mouth or what comes back out of it.

There might be a problem if you poop and lift weights at the same time :wub: Just Kidding. Interesting question not one that I would really think about.

Best of luck with your journey.

Thanks to everyone for their responses!! I love this community, it truly has been a HUGE help