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Hello all-

I had lapband surgery in 2005. It was the best thing I have ever done for myself. For the first few years I did great. Lost consistantly...exercised...lost over 100 lbs. About a year ago I got acid relux....that turned into throwing up at night. Up 5-6 times a night throwing up or waking up with a mouthful of bile. It was horrible. I talked to my doc and he thought I had slipped so we did a surgery about 4 months ago and he adjusted the band. After the surgery the throwing up and coughing was still there at night (not during the day....only when I lay down). Now the doc thinks it may be my gall bladder and not the band so I have surgery in Jan to get my gallbladder out.

I have been coughing and throwing up now for the last year (nights only). I am exhausted!! Has anyone ever had this happen to them and what was the cause...I am afraid that after I get my gallbladder out I will still be sick at night. Has anyone gone through this ?? All this throwing up cannot be good for my throat or the band!

I have not gained or lost any weight throughout this and feel great except for the throwing up at night.

Thanks so much for your help.

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The same thing happened to me and I was told it was Acid Reflux and the Fluid was taken out of my band. I went for a fill and the doctor said it was too high up on my esophagus and could not perform a fill and that the band would need to be moved.

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did you have the band moved...are you still getting sick at night

Hi Maggie, same trouble I to throw up day & night & bile comes up I did go to the Doctor He did a upper GI to check my band it was good but what he found was that I has some

infection in my stomach, I took medication for about two

weeks it help for a while now it back again I'm at my ends this problem.

If you can find out please let me know. I'm

sick of living like this. PS> did you have your gullbladder

remove. I don't think thats the problem. I do not have a gullbladder. I hope you the best Loretta:sad:

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Hi Maggie (and others who responded) to this thread. I have had a similar problem this past few weeks. I had the stomach flu for one week. I knew it was the stomach flu because two other employees at work had it. The other two people stopped vomiting after 3 or 4 days. Mine went to 10 days. I knew something was wrong but not sure if was for my band doctor or my internist doctor.

I went to my bariatric surgeon and she said that I probably "traumatized my band" from having the stomach flu and they took out 1 cc from my band. Right after I had the "unfill" I felt immediate relief when I drank a tall glass of Water. It actually went down. That same morning I was having problems swallowing Water. I couldn't even take my Vitamins that day.

Since last Monday, I still do not have an appetite (a blessing for me) but most importantly I don't have that awful restriction of eating and drinking and then throwing it all up. I read in my book (Mohammad Ali's daughter's book) that vomiting is NOT part of having a lapband and it needs to be adjusted. Return to the doctor and find out what is wrong (gallbladder, readjustment, unfill, etc). Don't be uncomfortable. Get to the bottom of it.

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Hi,

I am not sure how long this has been posted but I read it because this is exactly what is happening to me right now. I am not sleeping at night because I am vomiting so much. I am affected during the day as well. Omeprazole is not helping. I can't eat anything without at least some of if coming up in a lot of mucus but now I am actually getting stomach acid in my mouth! 2 nights ago I aspirated on it and now everything is burning. My Dr. office was so cavilier about it. They said they can see me next week to have an unfill. I am curious if this actually helped anyone on a permenante basis?

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I was getting acid in esohogus(?sp) to the point it had ulcerated. This was prior to banding. Banding has actually helped me on this problem ... so far. What I still do though is sleep on a 10" wedge pillow whether or not I feel like acid may be a problem. It has been a godsend for me..maybe it will help those of you with similar problem. I have been able to stop 2 Prevacid prescribed per day!!

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This was happening to me too. I never had problems in the day time.I would wake up from a sound sleep throwing up. I thought everything was fine. I had an esphagram and it showed the barium sitting in my esophagus for over 15 minutes and not going down through the band until they removed 1 cc. My dr. says this is very dangerous.

I would recommend an esophagram. Even if you don't feel too tight in the day time, throwing up at night is a sign that you are too tight and it's dangerous.

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Hi Maggie I have not been banded yet but thats whye i'm reading these blogs, anyhow I would listen to the last blogger and get an esophogram, one thing I wanted to say as a dental pofessional is make sure you brush (brush teeth and tongue for at last 2 minutes after vomiting), this will destroy your teeth it's like battery acid. Let us know what happens and good luck!

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Good Morning , didn't expect a reply so soon. Nice to see someones out there. Well I am ashamed to say that I have not made the date, I need a doctors recommendation letter for the insurance to approve and a phsycological exam I am just kindof nervous I guess and so I have been putting it on the backburner you know, I went to this doctor patient at work went to ,for a consult and got a bad feeling, so It a new refral and this doctor was awsome. turns out the other dr has been having alot of trouble and i dont know if hes even practicing anymore. Have you been banded yet? (im in Phoenix its 12:17 am so excuse my typing, time for bed. id like to make friends and chat or email i need support for sure.:thumbup:

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Thanks for all of your responses. I had my gallbladder out a week ago. The doc thought that that would help. I threw up 3 times last night so I guess not. I had a baruim swallow and he said things looked okay...although the barium moved very slowly down my throat and into my stoma.

I go see him next week for a follow up....I am praying that after I am completed healed things will be okay. Last night was the first night I threw up since the surgery.

Thanks for all your responces....it is great to have people to share these experiences with. I will let you know what the doc says!!

Curesmile- I am very careful with my teeth...I have read about how throwing up can hurt your teeth. thanks!! : )

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So sorry to hear that you are going through this. It sounds like you are on top of it with your doctor. I went through that throwing up for over 10 days. I thought I was going to lose my mind. I had to have 1 cc taken out of my band because my band was so traumatized by the throwing up and was swollen.

I feel I am back on track now. I had .5 cc put back into the band last Friday and have some restriction but with no throwing up.

Please keep me posted on how you are doing.

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I'm not a medical professional, so I don't know if a barium swallow it the same thing as an esophagram. It probably is.

I drank the barium, and it showed on the screen that it was not going down, just sitting in my esophagus. That explained why even if I hadn't eaten since 5-6 pm, I would throw up in my sleep. The food was sitting in my esophagus and not moving down .So when I laid down, it came back up. That is why I had to have part of my fill removed. I must add that in the daytime, nothing felt stuck and I never threw up.

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Maggie,

This same thing is now happening to me. I had my band almost 5 yrs ago. Never had acid reflux or any problems like that. But, now I can't sleep - I wake up with the same problem bile coming up and also thru my nose. Sorry, really gross but true. Did removing some of the fill work for you?

I have lost all of my weight and cannot believe I am just now having this kind of problem.

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