My doctor has been "screwing" with me for 6 months... he's filled and unfilled me and I have the most severe acid reflux....

He's got my band empty for the last month and I'm on previcid. I had a barium and he said everything looked fine with the band... even though the x-ray tech said I showed "severe acid reflux" when they layed me back. (He said he'd look at the x-rays personally and get back with me on my next appointment)

I've had the band for two years and I don't know what changed to cause the acid as I've never had it before in my life. Something is certainly different and I have it now even though the band is unfilled. (plus I have the added hunger issue & have gained about 20 pounds)

My question is for you all that have had slips... did it take a long time to finally diagnosis or do you know of anything else that would cause this "sudden" new problem..

(I loved my band before the acid)

I've just read another slip question thread and I have a few more comments...

I do aspirate acid at night which wakes me up for hours but it's better now with previcid & complete unfill - If I skip the previcid then it's back.

I am starving since the unfill and can eat anything... so unlike many other people here with a slip who can't keep even liquids down with a slip...

These are just a few points I thought I'd point out as I didn't feel I'd given all the information.

I actually had a slippage that was discovered because I started having severe reflux. This was discovered about 2.5 weeks ago. My doctor removed all my saline and it almost instantly fixed the problem. I haven't had any reflux since. I went back today and they did another barium swallow and it showed the band was normal. I opted to not have a fill at the advise of my doctor. I am still loosing pretty steady. I had surgery in June 07 and I have lost 80lbs. I haven't gained since my unfill. I do however feel less restricted. I am trying to exercise and eat small amounts.

I wish the band worked for me without fill... that would be great!

THis has been going on since last July... fill / unfill / fill / unfill... It's been an frustrating cycle. Any fill at all and I have the bad acid then unfill and I eat too much (and get lectured on why I'm not making better choices - duh that's why I got the band because I obviously didn't make good choices)

This is the first time I still have bad acid with the unfill... so now i'm scared but the barium didn't find anything and he's not concerned.

On both of my last 2 fills, I've had the horrible reflux issues that you've discussed - not sleeping - aspirating acid. My doctor tried prevacid which didn't help much. My doctor removed fill to where I only have 1 cc and told me that my band had slipped. I no longer have the acid reflux issues, but don't have much restriction either. I'm still trying to decide whether to fix the band or not.