I was filled and its been HELL ever since. This is the worst feeling in the world and it has NOTHING to do with wanting food.

I went to get my fill on Monday in TJ ...

He filled me to 2.0 and had me go down and eat something.

I ordered chicken quesedilla and was able to eat way too much of it..

So he gave me some more.. 2.4.. I sat and sipped Water and then I went back to the airport.

At the airport I ate two bites of some banans bread I had bought before my fill, I was real carefull eating it BUT that didnt matter. (MISTAKE!!! STUPID ME)

My chest begins to hurt and then from 10pm to about 2 am... I am gagging and vomiting and spitting up ad heaving and all that FUN PB horror.

(at the airport.. on my clothes... no way to clean up, crying my head off.. alone..trying to hide my predicterment)

Once home.. I think that some Hot broth will help.. I take a few sips and all it does is hurt.. so I just go to sleep, but the entire night I have to sleep with a towel to spit my saliva up in.

I assume the banana bread and PB episode lasting 4 hours has Inflamed the band and I just gotta wait till it settles down.

BUT... at 10am.. I am in Mass pain, not having been able to take my PAIN pills for a while.. (this is back pain, sciatic pain)

SO I think taking two of my morphine pills (each the size of half a pea)

and ONE tiny sip of milk to get them down will be OK.

NOT OK!!!!!!!

From 10am till 4:45pm I gag and choke and puke and vomit and I FILL 4, 6 ounce cups with my own slime and saliva.. plus I am spitting my saliva every 10 seconds to keep it from being swallowed as well..

Its impossible to sleep when the body has to spit up every one to 4 minutes like that.

Finally at 4:45 I have this one huge vomit and BOTH of those little Morphine pills come OUT into the spit cup IN TACT!!!

I feel a sudden rush of "feeling better" Like this is over...

But its not.. I havent attempted to drink or eat or take a pill since But I am still not able to keep my own saliva in..

The Episode lasting 6 hours when the pills got stuck.. has prolly inflamed me way way more than even the 4 hour episode when the banana bread did.

AS I am typing this.. and spitting up my saliva about once every 5 minutes..

It hurts so bad. every muscle in my neck and chest and shoulders aches so bad. PLUS my back pain is not covered.

I called my docter to get a morphine patch or something and he wanted to get me liquid and he just cant het the fact that I cannot even keep down my own saliva.. My stomach is completely closed.

He says to call my band doctor..

BUT WHY?? HE is MY doctor to help me with my back pain!

I will go to ER tomarrow IF my back pain is not covered. I am crippling up, soon I will bed ridden if I have no pain meds.

I have been covered with meds for a long time and FREAKING out at the prospect of not having any for even a few days.

PLUS, when the swelling goes down, I want to be able to eat some mushies.. no have to use all the room I have on pain pills..

I wish my doctor would work with me better than this..

I even have to pay for the pain Patches my self..

I have a whole bottle of liquid viccodan, I just need some patches becasue I cant swallow.

Oh well.. Tomarrow I will try to convince him again that I REALLY REALLY cannot swallow and see if he has the time to listen and help me

YEs, I realize I may be filled too tight.

WE will see..

NO PAIN< NO GAIN

Hi

Im so sorry to hear of your experience. I also had Dr. Ortiz for surgery. Dr. Martinez did my first fill and I was instructed to be on warm liquids for 3 days. Are you sure he didnt mean for you to eat soup or something like that? I have had three fills and I have always been told to stay on liquids for three day so the stomach doesn't have to work to digest and it stays still. I have hard time with dry foods like bread. Sometimes I can have it and sometimes it comes back up. I pay close attention to the first 2 or 3 bites of anything solid. Sometimes the first bite or 2 seems to trap air in there and cause pressure, if thats the case I will quit for about 5 or 10 minutes and walk around then finish my meal with no problem. I wish you lots of luck... take care.

LisaWA

Frankly, I can't believe that the doctor told you to eat something immediately after your fill. Common practice is to have people do 2 days of fulls and then 2 days of mushies after a fill.

If the inflamation doesn't settle down, you may have to be completely unfilled and allow your stoma to heal. It is unfortunate... but it is one of those potential risks associated with being banded. I had to have an unfill due to an irritated stoma. I'm down to .75cc's... but still doing well with maintaining my 126lbs weight loss.

Hugs,

julie dizz, you dont believe me? Read the entire thread and you will see my doctor had another of his patients do the same thing.. maybe you will beleive her.

It was to see if I needed more fill so I didnt go home with too little of a fill after going through all the trouble and money to get one. (my second one)

I happen to think its a GREAT idea and think he is wonderful for going through so much trouble and caring so much.

lisawa)

Im so sorry to hear of your experience. I also had Dr. Ortiz for surgery. Dr. Martinez did my first fill and I was instructed to be on warm liquids for 3 days. Are you sure he didnt mean for you to eat soup or something like that?

girl )

He sent me down stairs to eat food and then had me wait an hour and checked under flouro if there was any food left in the pouch, there wasnt ans that was evident I needed more fill... so was the fact that I was able to eat what I ate..

If I had a hard time on my first bite, I wouldnt have eaten any more and told him I was filled enough... then I would of gone on liquids.... he also had me stay two more hours sipping Water to be sure everythin was OK...

He was wonderful. He spent all day on me. It was very kind.

you)

I have had three fills and I have always been told to stay on liquids for three day so the stomach doesn't have to work to digest and it stays still.

girl)

Yes I know.. but he needed to see and like I said, one bite might of been hard on me.. but it wasnt.. and if it was, i would just have to suffer.. it doesnt swell for a few hours I assume.

you)

I have hard time with dry foods like bread. Sometimes I can have it and sometimes it comes back up.

girl)

never ever gives me a problem .. ever.

you)

I wish you lots of luck... take care.

LisaWA

girl)

thank you your so nice, I think I found a way to get a fill for 150$..

I wonder how much they will fill me..

I want 1.8

OH DIXIE I was so hoping the steroid shot would work..

but once ortiz heard it had been over 30 hours he said it was an absolute emergency that my fill be taken out!

Delarla).

But here's the question of the day: If your Oregon doctor was able to remove the fill, why not beg, plead, hell, threaten if you gotta for them to put the fill back in after you're healed? Have you even asked them? Maybe if you become their new "pet patient" they might consider taking on other fill patients. Stranger things have happened.

girl)

it wasnt my doctor, it was the emergency room, they had never done one and its way easier to unfill ... than to fill...

PM me your secrets.. I was filled to 2.4, they know i took the pills.. but hey ya never know... gotta do what ya gotta do.

thank you!!

I figured you'd say something like that, but it never hurts to ask!

Nykee... I'm sorry... my statement was meant to rhetorical, rather than implying that you weren't telling the truth. Please forgive me.

I was musing out loud that a fill doctor would even THINK to give those instructions to a newly filled person. That is not standard practice. In fact, it is way outside the norm and most likely the reason that for your current difficulties.

To make sure that I'm not just speaking from my own limited experience, I did a google search on fill procedures. I could not find one instance that said anything but that newly filled patients should be on liquids for the first few days after an adjustment.

Of course, I am very willing to admit that my experience could be too limited to include other successful adjustment practices.

Julie, when people come from far away, Dr. Martinez has them eat a little something to make sure it doesn't get stuck. Then he has us go back on liquids for 2-3 days. He doesn't want to send anyone home too tight. That wasn't the cause of all Nykee's problems.

hope you are feeling better. When I fly I am always more restricted...maybe it will loosen up in a bit. Good Luck:)

Karen, yes.. thats true...thank you.