I hope someone can help me......i was banded in Oct 07.

i have a 9ml band with 4mls in and i have been plodding along nicely untill about 5 weeks ago.

aboute 5 weeks ago my band became suddenly very tight, so tight that i could not even swallow my own salivia. when i went to work the next morning i was bringing up my salivia every 6 mins roughly...i went along to my A&E i am a nurse at the same hospital.... they tried over 40 times to defill my band. in the end they were able to defill it after trying for several hours....i had some fluid and they put back 4mls which i have in the band now....

anyway i felt a bit sore on the port site but that was because they had tried to stab me so many times....

then 2 weeks later i had a pain in my left side like i had pulled a muscle...i took pain meds but the pain got worse. it felt like i had a knife in my left hand side but no one could see it......lol...

i went to A&E again who did a CT and X.RAYS and a barrium swallow... they said they thought my band had slipped up to high.... but went on to say that i would have to go back to my provider who did the surgery as they were unsure aboute lap band surgery and that i was the 1st person they had seen with one!!!!.

i had them copy it to a CD and posted this to my surgon. he replied by saying that there was nothing wrong with the band and could not understand why i was still in so much pain.....

i then went to my G.P ( local doctor) who commenced me on stronger pain meds and Omeprazole 20mg 3 times a day....

when i take these meds regulary i am sort of normal......

but today i tried to come off the meds... and my god the pain has been so bad i wanted to cry....

i can not stand up tall and i am hunshed over like an old lady.....and the pain on my left side just below my rib cage is the worst pain i have ever had in my life......

so hence i am back on the meds......

even when i try to eat anything it hurts in my throat....

i am so fed up now i just want to know what is wrong...and what i can do.....i cant keep on taking meds back to back...

please please please if any one can give me any advise at all i would be soooooooooooooooo greatfull..... my surgon says one thing and my local A&E say something else.....

thanks

Carina Thompson

England.....

thanks again every one...just been to see a loculm doctor and guess what gave me a prescription for gaviscon advance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. told him i have no reflux but he said try it for a few days.....

he never even moved out of the chair!!!!!! god dont you just love the NHS (NOT).........

i am giving it one more week on the PPI's then i am going to get firm with my surgeon who did the band and tell him to look again.

i would love the sleeve now just want the band gone if it causes this much pain.....

i am going to ask a price maybe then he will listen.........

thanks again every one

carina........