Heres my question...please anyone who knows...pipe in...

Does the band move around your stomach...I am NOT talking slipping up and down the stomach, but around in CIRCLES, or when the stomach heals up is the band totally enclosed and does not move AT ALL??? Does anyone know? Deanna

Acording to the operation movie I watched it is supposed to be able to move back and forth. If it's too tight it can lead to erosion or something like that.

It is stitched into place and eventually your body will form (much wanted and needed) scarring and adhesions around the band. So to answer your question, nope.

I knew it was stitched in place, but that was the answer I was looking for...that the adhesions make it so it does not twist....so it is kinda like locked into one place forever..

I knew it was stitched in place, but that was the answer I was looking for...that the adhesions make it so it does not twist....so it is kinda like locked into one place forever..

Well, we HOPE it is forever! Theoretically, it's forever. But slips and such do happen.

It used to be that they stitched it differently than today. But they have perfected the surgical technique and the band and slips and erosion are not common.

I'm new and may have totally misunderstood. The movie I am referring to is the one at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston:

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f73/two-live-lap-band-surgery-videos-33949/

I watched the movie again (very interesting!) and the part I'm talking about is at about the 33 minute mark, right after they cut the stitches and they talk about the collar and one of the problems being erosion. It's really vague and now I'm not quite sure what he meant.

A little side question for you... Is it weird having an object in your body? Do you feel it or know it's there?

No, you don't feel a thing either inside or out. I can't even feel my port, but maybe when I've lost more weight I can.

I have 4 heart stents in my body and I don't feel them either....hope the band can keep me from having any more!!

A little side question for you... Is it weird having an object in your body? Do you feel it or know it's there?

Nope, not weird at all. I don't even think about it since I can't feel it. The only two ways I know it is there is that I HAVE to eat differently and if I feel my stomach I can feel the port. Otherwise I am totally unaware that it exists in my body.

I don't feel anything inside or out, either. He said I likely won't ever feel my port (it's currently 6-8inches deep). Sometimes I think I feel it when I'm sprawled on the bed on my side, feels like something is poking on the inside where the band is, but I'm 90% pretty sure it's my imagination (or food).

The only time it 'dawns on me' that I have something in my body is when I eat too fast and something gets stuck. Otherwise, my body is the same body.. just getting skinnier!

I can't feel it or the port.......... the only time I know its in there is when I eat Beans and my billy the little bad ass band knocks me on my butt...

NO MORE BEANS for TRACY!!!!!!! (although most tolerate them well)

LMAO tracy..love the billy the bad ass band.....LOVE IT!!