Hi there! I was just banded eight days ago, and I've been having major problems with keeping any liquid down at all. If I even drink more than a teaspon of water within a ten to fifteen minute span, I get unbearable pains in my stomach, and slightly nautious. But here comes the really bad part....I know my stomach can't handle more than a teaspoon, but I just get so dang thirsty, and that icy cold 'riptide rush' gatorade bottle is at my parched lips, and that teiny weiny little teaspoon of liquid just doesn't do it for me, so I tip the bottle back slowly and drink a little more (mabe only 1 & 1/2 teaspoon more), and as I'm doing this, I know dang well than in a second my stomach is going to kill me for it. So I drink the 3 & 1/2 teaspoons anyways, and then here it comes....the slight nautiousness, the tight unbearable pressure pains...so I bend over and rid myself of this god-aweful fluid with the help of a couple fingers down the throat. And then it's gone....the pain is just gone! But of course I'm fricken thirsty as hell again, so I tell myself that I'm going to do it right next time, and that I'm only going to drink ONE tiny little teaspoon every ten to twenty minutes....but when the times comes for that next drink, I'm just so ravenously thirsty that I can't drink just one teaspoon, I have to have just a little more....and then I throw-up again and the whole prcess starts all over again! And I'm beginning to get sorta worried becasues I really don't think I'm getting much fliud down at all, and I've already lost 20 pounds in eight days (I know, I know....I never thought I'd hear myself complain about something like that in a million years, but here I am complaining that I'm losing weight just a little too fast!) Has anyone else had similar problems with not being able to get enough to drink? Or am I just trying to drink too mush, too fast (even thought I consider one little teaspoon every ten to twenty minutes to be pure and utter torture as well as fluid deprivation)? If anyone has any feed back I'd appreciate it a lot!

Hi Amberose,

This hasn't happened to me, but if I were you I'd definitely call my doctor. You are risking becoming extremely dehydrated and may need some IV fluids. Dehydrations is a dangerous thing....talk to your doc before it gets worse!

Good luck

Lisa (Las Vegas, NV)

Rumbaut

7-8-03

You really need to see your doctor and get some IV fluids.

don't delay amberrose!

Susan helms from the mexican bandsters yahoo group had the exact same problem as you, she could not keep any fluids down and actually not even her own saliva. She called her doctor and was admitted into the hospital for 2 days on IV. After which she felt a lot better.

Here is the post she put on the group

"Thanks to all of you who responded about my problem with thirst. I have been in contact with Dr. XXX throughout the night and I am hoping I have turned the corner on this thirst thing. I have what he calls Late Post Operative Obstruction which he says happens but very infrequently. I was able to swallow enough liquids in the hospital to have my IV removed and be released. The next day at home was fine and then BAM I swelled all up again. Tiny sips of ice-cold Gatorade every 10 minutes have stayed down so I hope this is the solution for me . I can't say enough about how kind and concerned Dr. XXX and his patient liason, XXX , have been. Sue H."

Great advice, always call your doctor if there's a problem. You really don't want to dehydrate.

But I need to warn you about vomiting so often, especially if you've only been banded for 8 days. That makes the stoma swell even more, making it more difficult for things to get through, and you risk slippage of the band. That, you *really* don't want to do. You need to allow your band time to anchor into place. If your doctor clears you of dehydration and you don't need IV fluids, just wash your mouth out and spit the liquid that you can't handle out. Maybe you need to suck on ice chips or something instead..so you can't take a swallow that's too large. But please, stop vomiting all the time, you can only do damage that way.

I want to thank you guys for your posts. After reading them I decided that maybe I should go to the hospital to see if there was anything wrong......and yes, there was something VERY wrong! For one thing I was dehyrdrated, and the other was that I still had barrium trapped in my stomach from the upper GI I had right after my surgery. So I had to go all the way back to Mexico and have that band taken out (it had slipped), and get a whole new one put in. It took a lot longet for my body to recover from the surgery the second time (I'm still hurting), but I'm glad that I got that taken care of. Thanks again for your advice, without it I might not have gotten the medical attention I needed. Thanks again!

I am so glad you posted and all the veterans here helped you get the right help!!!

I bet you have been sore! You've been through a lot.

When something like that happens do you have to pay for the correction? Or just the trip there?

I've heard of this happening before. You probably need to be on an IV because your stomach is so swollen. It may need extra time healing and the throwing up only makes it worse. When you can't even get a teaspoon down there is something wrong. Please call your doctor. It is better to be safe than sorry.