I'm sleeved and band free!

[Nursebarbie 392]

Its official! The band is out and sleeve in place. I feel great. So much easier than the band surgery. I have walked and drank 60cc so far. The surgeon had to place a drain because the band had been strangling a major artery. No wonder I was fainting all the time and low blood pressure. Night and day difference. Still in the hospital. Likely go home tomorrow. Best thing I have ever done for myself!

[genepha 47]

Yea! So glad to hear. Rest, walk, sip, repeat!

[Nursebarbie 392]

Awake all night uncomfortable. Have a morphine PCA and every med you can name. Still awake and uncomfortable. Soreness in tummy area and of course gas pain. Middle of night here.

[one-day-soon 26]

Hope you are feeling better. I too have had several incidents of fainting, low blood pressure then high blood pressure. I have send the cardiologist and he was not able to find anything wrong. Is there any test to prove the band being on a major artery?

[Baba Wawa 543]

This could be pressure on the vagus nerve.

[HatheryOnHerWay 603]

I'm so glad you got that nasty thing out of you!

[Fixerupper 335]

So happy for you!

[Nursebarbie 392]

I had the same problem same tests and what I found out after they took out the band that it was not only intermittently pushing on my vagal nerve causing the fainting but also there was a trapped artery as well. Still in the hospital but since that horrible band was taken out my bp has been normal.