I have been banded 8 weeks now, and absolutely love my band. Though I do have a question. About 6 months before I was banded I got a bad stomach virus, I could not keep anything down. What happens when you get a stomach bug when you have lapband? Has anyone experienced this? I have not thrown up since being banded so I have no idea what would happen if I got a virus.

I asked the NP at my surgeon's office and she gave me a prescription for phenergan....told me to get it filled and have it on hand in case I get nauseated.

I'm not banded yet, but I asked my surgeon this very question when I went in for my consultation visit. He told me that a lot of times he will ask the patient to come in and do an unfill until it passes. He said he would rather do an unfill on someone than to risk slippage or any type of damage to the stomach or the band. This was the first time I had ever heard of that, but it sounded reasonable to me. I am usually the one in my household who ends up getting every sickness worse than everyone else. In fact, an ER doctor thought someone had strangled me once after I had the stomach flu. All the vessles in my eyes were busted and the whites of eyes were so red from blood. But, I see a lot of people say their docs give them an anti-nausea med like Zofran or Phenergan.

Wow, PSJ, that must have been one heck of a stomach virus.

I also asked the nurse practicioner in my doc's office about this. She said they would call in a prescription for me, but that if I was vomiting more than a day, they'd want me to come in for an unfill too.

I had the stomach flu about 2 months ago and I thought I was going to die. I could not throw up for nothing and it hurt so bad when I was trying to. I did this for 2 days and then I got better.

I think I will have my doc prescribe me some phenegran to have on hand just in case something like this every comes up! Thank you all for your responses. Have a great weekend!

DITTO!!! I haven't gotten a bug yet but came close and my doc wrote me a script for phenegran. Felt better in 20 minutes.

I will NEVER travel without it or be at home without a current bottle of it...just in case.

Gotta protect my investment.

Edited January 30, 200917 yr by ladybugchaser

Wow, great question; had never even thought of this! I am seeing my doctor on Weds and I will definitely be asking for a prescription to have on hand...just in case!

Exactly ten days after I was banded on 1-13-09 I started feeling nauseated. The stomach flu was going around my kid's school and I had been there for a play a few days before. I started to worry. I took one of those phenegren pills (and nearly threw up from the taste alone) but managed to ward off the vomit. I took the pills everytime I started feeling sick again and low and behold, after 24 hours, I felt okay again...no throwing up! Pretty amazing because I cannot recall one time in my life that I felt that way without ending up on the floor in front of the toilet. Here's to phenegran!

I was banded 9/4/2007. I had the stomach bug for the first time with the band this past week! OMG! Everytime I would try to throw up it would just not come out! It was horrible! I wished I could throw up to get it over with! Also, it made me my port hurt and reminded me of right after surgery! It's three days later and my port is still sore. I'm going to call my dr next time!:redface: