Hello everyone. It's been ages since I last posted and things have been going ok. I've hit a little plateau and I haven't lost more than 2# in the last six weeks so I am a little frustrated by that even though I feel like I eat less now than I ever have in my life and I am far more active than I have been in ages. But looking at the overall picture, I really shouldn't complain.

My big issue these days is that lately, I have been suffering from terrible reflux or esopogitis or something but it is becoming unbearable to the point I am literally scared of eating anything except ice cream and other cld mushie foods (and that can't be a good thing). It has gotten so bad that this morning, I got it immediately after just one drink of my morning coffee. I have never had a problem with heartburn since my surgery and have enjoyed very few side effects of it so this has really caught my attention. And it's not just the heartburn but the other day, I ate a couple of pieces of chicken (or I should be honest and say I swallowed a couple of pieces) between running to meetings as I had not had time to eat Breakfast or a real lunch and about 15 minutes later, the stinging started like regular heartburn and then spread to an excruciating pain that went straight through to my back like someone had stabbed me there and stayed that way for at least 7-8 hours. I had to leave work, go home and took some liquid tylenol, then soaked in a bath to try to make it feel a little better but nothing really seemed to help.

This has been gettting progressively worse for the last 2 weeks. I haven't had a fill since January but I have been under great amounts of stress having just sold our house and moved in the last couple of weeks and just being overwhelmed with work and other issues. Has anyone had similar problems so long after their initial surgery (I was banded 10/2004)? I am a little scared that this is a bigger issue than just a little heartburn.

Melissa, I won't the only one to say CALL YOUR DOCTOR!! Sometimes I get sensitive times that resolve in a day or so with babying and with Pepcid Complete, but if you're reduced to eating soft foods for more than a brief time there may be something wrong. I hope it's only as minor as your being a little too tight, but you won't know unless you contact your doc. Perhaps an unfill is in order.

Good luck!!

Yes I have had problems similar to yours. Mine hurt between my breast bone and into my back. The doctor ordered an upper gi and that came back normal so he prescribed me a medicine that is like mylanta but stronger and it helped and soothed it. IT has stopped now. I can't remember the name of the medicine. If I find it I will PM you and let you know what it is.

Angie

You Need To See The Doctor I Had A Friend With Thouse Same Problems And After The 1st Year She Could Not Take It Any More And The Doctor Removed The Band She Suffered From Esophagitis And Gastritis But Any Way Go To The Doctor And Ask, I Am Getting The Band Next Month

I had both Esophagitis and Gastritis,

I am now free of both of them. I was on Prevacid for 20 days for the esophagitis and Prilosec for 2 months for the gastritis.

Many people think Reflux and Gastritis are one in the samewhen in fact they are totally different but do have some similar symptoms.

I had an endoscopy to detectmy gastritis.

Call your Dr.

Stress can make the gastritis flare up.

Do a search on gastritis andreflux and you will se how similar but yet different they are.

There is a threadhere I started back in November titled Esophagitis, do a search on it , maybe it will help you some