Hi all. I was banded early Monday morning (11/4 @7:30am) and was out of recovery by noon amd seemingly doing well. The hospital I was in requires one overnight stay. I was fine until monday evening when I woke up from a dead sleep to regurgitate mucus and blood. I did thins about 3 times before I could finally fall back to sleep. The next morning they took me down for a upper GI with barium. 8 know something was wrong as soon I stood up on the machine and looked up at the screen. They advised me to sip the barium and it just sat in my esophagus and wouldn't go into my stomach. I ended up having a panic attack and they had to give me Ativan. I continued to throw up all day in horrible pain and misery. My dr. Wanted to wait it out and see if it was just swelled. By Wednesday, I demanded that the surgeon take the band out... but he convinced me that he could put a larger one in and I agreed. I went intio surgery weds nite and came out doing pretty well. The band that was in there had too much Fluid and was too small to begin with. I don't if I should blame my surgeon or hust agree it was a mistake. But I am happy to say I am finally home tonite and drinking fluids. I am in major pain at my sites tho since they were cut open twice. Im praying that this will work and I will do okay. Btw thanks for all the support and congrats on my other post that got deleted I think (?)

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You poor thing! I'm so happy you a doing better now.

Thank you all for your concerns and support. I am now a week post op and I'm feeling pretty good. A little better everyday and down 14lbs in a week. I had my first post op appointment today and was disappointed to find out my surgeon does not deal with patients post op. I will now have a new dr. who deals with the fills and all that. I wabted to ask him some questions but I made sure to ask the others and the physician assistants about it. They all knew about my ordeal because it was pretty unusual I guess. I asked to read the report and they allowed. Turns out the other surgeon took out the 10ccs from somewhere surrounding my port. Very odd. There was a total of 5ccs in it.

I'm glad to hear that you are much better!

Man... This was not a band defect, but sounds like operator error; however, this story definitely shows the ugly type of story I was talking about when I said newbies can find the good, the bad and the ugly on this site!

Would definitely not recommend the surgeon who performed your procedure. YIKES!

I'm so glad you're doing better and best of luck with your band.

Man... This was not a band defect, but sounds like operator error; however, this story definitely shows the ugly type of story I was talking about when I said newbies can find the good, the bad and the ugly on this site!

Would definitely not recommend the surgeon who performed your procedure. YIKES!

I'm so glad you're doing better and best of luck with your band.

Thanks. And yea, I certainly won't be recommending my surgeon to anyone.