This happened about 5 hrs ago ..

Holy HELL that hurt!! I was asleep, minding my own business, when I woke up with what felt like heartburn and the NEED to pee. So I did, and things hot worse. I couldn't tell if I needed a BM, to throw up, or lay down and DIE. It just kept getting worse and worse. Full body shaking, cold sweats, jumbled thoughts, weakness, and the inability to go anything to make it better. I finally made it back to the bed and woke my husband up, got enough words out to get him to call the Dr, and collapsed on the floor next to the puppy in a shaking, sweating, freezing puddle. Now it feels like I have heartburn that won't go away. WTF?? Oh yeah. I have the Lapband if that helps anyone else understand this. Have you guys experienced this? What IS it? If the heartburn doesn't go away or gets worse, I'll head to the ER.

This was VERY different than anything I've ever felt. I've never hurt like this before even with broken bones, gall bladder issues, child birth, and miscarriages. It was a 15 on the pain 10 scale.

We didn't take my temp. Hubby was panicked, and I couldn't put two thoughts together until I made this post 4 hrs ago. I was so cold afterward that he put a heating pad under me, and I fell asleep. We are going to the Dr this morning. I still have pain, but nowhere near what it was last night. What I have now would be a 2-3 on the pain 10 scale. So, once the kiddo is on the school bus, we will head out.

Also, I walked the puppy because I thought all was well ... and about half way through the pain was up to a 4 and it was getting hard to breathe ...

So, I'm headed to the shower so that we can go to the Dr ASAP.

@@CherieRyde Please let us know how you are doing and what your doctor said.

@@CherieRyde please keep us posted. Praying for your health to be restored

Edited September 26, 201411 yr by LuckyOne53

That sure didn't sound good ,yes let us know what they say & what caused so much pain.

It's Gastritis, or swelling of the stomach lining. There's not an exact idea of the cause, and no real treatment. So, I don't have any idea of what to avoid to prevent this happening ever again. Let me tell you ... it's Hell on Earth. It hurts worse than gallbladder pain. Now that I'm home, I'm nauseous, headachy, and fighting to keep food (aka chicken broth) down.

So are they going to do anything about it , or is it one of those things they can't do anything about , did they give you any thing to help you ? , well I hope it passes for you & you get better & hopefully you can keep something down ,remember though if you start vomiting to much call any or especially your band surgeon so they can look at your band , get better.

After my endoscopy the dr. diagnosed me with gastritis and hiatal hernia. I was put on pantoprazole. Maybe you could ask ur dr. I have no problems... Praying you feel better soon.

Hope you are feeling better, that this gets resolved! I'm assuming it has nothing to do with the band but what is the trigger for gastritis? Sending very best wishes -- enjoy that puppy!

That's rotten. I hope you feel better soon.

I have had the lap band for 9 years. Never had any problems prior to my surgery but experienced sooo many stomach/digestive probs (including what you're describing) upon occasion. Can't remember what I was prescribed last time. Looking forward to having my band removed soon. Hope things get better for you really soon.

they are now treating gastritis with Carafate. because of my problems I take a swallow because I have the liquid form every night before bed.

The trigger is fatty foods. Apparently the scrambled eggs, sausage, and pancakes for dinner was a no-no. They put me on an antacid, but that caused more pain when I swallowed it. I'm hoping to find a substitute today that will dissolve in my mouth.

As far as treatment, there's no real treatment for it. Just monitoring my food even more diligently.

Thanks for all of the well wishes, guys.

Mmm what testimony46 said maybe you can have someone take the medicine back to the pharmacy & ask if they can give it to you in liquid form because you have the band & it's hard for you to swallow ,or maybe dissolve it in a bit of water so it will go down , just a suggestion , hope it doesn't last to long.

I use chewable antacids from time to time if that helps.