help?

tellie · August 23, 2004

Hey guys.... hope you are all well, I just got to the fart discussion while reading abour Darcy and Lisa's ordeals so I need to ask, what has happened since? hope both of you are better and the complaints sent.

I was hoping to come here and just share my horrible week with you. My baby was in hospital ( ok, she is almost 3 but still my baby). Was a horrible experience. Feeling so helpless! ( she was there for 2 nights, but we waited in the ER for 8 hrs before she was seen, from 11 pm so I count that as the 3rd night.) She is fine now, happy and eating well, and drinking, and really angry, and throwing horrible tantrums, and well, i guess expressing her frustration the only way she can....

But now I have to pick your brains once more.....

The last night in the hospital I started having really bad acid reflux, similar to what i had when i became too tight and had some fill out. But I can still eat and drink no problem. The usual pain I used to get if i ate too fast or too big, on the left side of my chest ( just above the boob), has gone for good and was replaced by a bit of pain, and stretchy feeling right in the middle of the abdomen, behind the sternum, at the level where the ribs end.

So, has my band moved? Its the only thing that makes sense to me. Unless someone wiser and more experienced tells me otherwise you can tell me that if it had moved i couldnt eat or drink for example....

maybe my acid is just stress? ( woke up choking in acid when i tried to sleep last night, backache from couch today)

And I also have this weird hiccups that wake up the neighbourhood and hurt a bit, if i stand up suddenly or pick up something or take out the trash....

and constant burping the brings up the acid again, yuck.....

thanks guys.....

tellie

leatha_g · August 23, 2004

It could be the stress, Tellie, but frankly, my advice is to call your surgeon and ask for an Upper GI.

You need to tell him exactly what you have told us, about the sudden onset of reflux/aspiration in the night.

They say that under stress our bands react by tightening, sometimes. Hopefully, this is all it is and it will resolve itself, but I'd feel better if you had it checked out - reason being some slippages have made themselves known this way. It might be that you need to have the band unfilled for a few weeks to let things straighten out.

That you are not vomiting repeatedly, or in severe pain is a good sign that this is NOT the case. I don't want to alarm you, but better safe than sorry, right?

Please let us know what you find out.

New Hope · August 23, 2004

Yes, please get this checked out. Do you think that you could have "flipped your port" lifting your daughter? A three year old is pretty heavy. Whatever the problem is, please follow up on it w/ your dr. Best of luck!

tellie · August 26, 2004

Hello, and thank you both for your replies.

I did go see my doctor yesterday. He is an amazing surgeon, and a very nice person, but didnt feel so reassured, maybe its not his fault but mine! Basically he said something might indeed have moved, but since I am still eating with restriction, and drinking... it doesnt really matter. Things are working the way they are supposed to, and if they moved or not is, apparently, not relevant. He gave me some pills to test for the reflux, and said to ask my GP for a prescription if they work.....

I will just be extra careful for the next 6 weeks (he is going to spain on holidays) and hope for the best, and hope he knows whats going on with me.

Thanks again, hope you are well.

Tellie