Help have anyone experienced severe bloating and stomach pains after banding -- I got banded on March 16th 2006 started having bloating of the stomach december 2007 makes you look like you are pregnant --any advice.

mytime:crying:

I have no idea why you would be bloated now. I was bloated really bad after surgery but it went away after a month. Maybe it isn't band related. Maybe it is. You need to talk to a doctor either way.

I think you should definitely see a doctor. There are just too many different reasons and no way to easily tell without professional advice. It may have nothing to do with banding.

I was banded in Nov 2006. I started having the same bloated painful feeling about 6 months after surgery. It's been getting increasingly worse and more constant. I went into the general practioner and couldn't find a cause. I've got an appointment with a gastroenterologist in a couple of weeks. I hope they have an answer for me because it's very very painful and frustrating. I can't seem to eat anything that won't upset my stomach anymore. I wish you luck and I hope you keep me posted as I will you.

Hi thanks for all the advice, I did a scan, a barium swallow which shows how thinngs enter the stomach and an xray so now I am going to see the gastroenterologist if those resullts are negative then I would know it's the band. I am so upset because I was 320 lbs went down to 180lbs and when the bloating started my Dr. took out the fill for a month and I gained about 24 lbs because now that I have the fill again its not working like it did first --I am now getting restriction so for two weeks I have hardly eaten yet I cant see the weight loss --so I am upset about that plus the bloating and I just started looking good too.