Hi all, my wife had a lap band surgery on Tuesday 27th.

She is STILL in the hospital and is currently nothing by mouth because she feels sick all the time.

She is at Beth Isreal Deaconess in Boston, MA.

The dr this morning told her that it may be because the band is too tight and they have to wait for the swelling to go down.

Anyone knows whats really going on?

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I'm glad to ear they found the answer. Hopefully she will decide to keep her band. I tried many diet/exercise plans over a lot of years and this is the only one i have seen good results with. I had a few complications with my surgery, mostly due to a large amount of scar tissue from previous abdominal surgeries. Mine took just over 4 hrs to complete, but thanks to my surgeon, she was able to complete it. Tell your wife we are all here for when she gets out and home and has questions/concerns...Dave

Thanks for the update - sounds like she's doing better.

I hope she decides to keep the band and its smooth sailing from here on out.

Was she required to see a therapist pre-op? If so (or even if not - I'm sure the hospital has someone on staff) it might be worth while to have her talk to someone before making the choice to remove the band. I'm sure she did a lot of research and had to jump threw a lot of hoops to get to the operating table. I'd hate to see her regret her choice.

She is so lucky to have such a caring husband. I hope she feels better, just let her know to hang in there, she may need to take baby steps toward her recovery/journey to better health. It is her decision to make as to whether she keeps the band or not, but if it was me, I would keep or at least get the larger band and be on my way. I would not have gone thru all of that with nothing to show for it. Keep us posted, and once again Thank You for being such a wonderful husband as to come on this website with the soul purpose of finding help for her, way to go!!!

You said: Yesterday she felt prematurely full after 1 med cup of Protein drink in the hospital

I don't understand the concern. That is NORMAL. You can't drink very much after the surgery because of the swelling. A medium cup of Protein Drink is quite an undertaking. Don't give up now. They are probably keeping her because they want to keep her electrolytes up and easiest wasy is through IV. You don't want to release someone who still feels queasy and have them get dehydrated.

I hope she decides to give it a go. So many folks who are gun-shy of surgery, discomfort, etc. have a knee-jerk reaction when everything doesn't go perfectly. Everyone is different, everyone heals differently. She made the commitment...you guys should cowboy up and see it through and she will be glad she did.