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I had to have a barium swallow today, I am having alot of pain in my chest back and up into my neck... feels like gas but not sure. I have not had a doctor in a long time because mine retired but thankfully last week I found a new doc and he sent me for this test.... I am very nervous for the results.. when I looked at the tv monitor during the test things did not look right. I am praying that my band has not slipped. I had at times overeaten because I was not restricted and was hoping to just have this new doc give me a fill so I could be restricted again but now all this pain I am having is really driving me insane.

Has anyone else had this kind of gas type pain?

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Sorry to hear about your pain. How are you now?

Lots of Luv- Alice

Banded 12/20/06

Fill 02/03/07-1cc

Dr. Huacuz- Tijuana, Mexico

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thank you,,, I am doing ok, my barium swallow did not show a slip but they are concerned because it looks as though my stomach folds in on itself so they they are doing an endoscopy to see what is going on... hopefully soon....

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I was wondering if you had an update on what it was actually causing all that b/c I'm only 5 days out and have been dealing with this since surgery (which I did barium only a couple hours after surgery). Thanks!!

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I have not heard from my doctor yet with a date for my endoscopy. I am hoping that it will happen soon. I am anxious to get some answers....

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Hey

I got my lapband on friday 2nd feb 07. its been a week now, and i just wanted to let you know that i had horrific gas pains as well.

i dont think the swallow had anything to do with it honestly.

they apparently blow your stomach up with gas when they do the procedure, so that is where the gas is coming from.

for about 3 days after i had the procedure done, the gas pain was worse than anything else. then eventually, i got rid of the wind and the pain went as well.

i was on soluable pain killers, but as they were fizzy, they were giving me more pain (due to gas) than the actual wounds from the procedure were. so i stopped taking them and started crushing up some normal tablets... that helped so much, and i didnt have any gas pain anymore.

good luck with your endoscopy... i work at a day hospital where we specialise in endoscopy.

you will probably be having a gastroscopy.. where they put you to sleep, then put a camera down your throat to have a look at your stomach.

i really hope everything goes well for you.

let us know how it goes!!

Sam

p.s. sorry about the blabbering on!!!! hehe

p.p.s. im from melbourne, australia.:nervous

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I am only 7 days out from surgery. I didn't experience gas pains until last night and I was seriously thinking about going to the ER. It started under my breast bone, went into my shoulder and neck. My neck hurt so bad I couldn't put my head down. I am assuming it was "trapped gas"...I hope anyway. I took the heating pad and put it on my shoulder. This morning, I was back to normal.

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