Hello fellow bandstandsters. I need the support of some good friends right about now. I recently went to a new dr to get a check up/ fill here in South Jersey because I was gaining weight yet vomiting when I tried to eat so I thought my band had slipped or something( btw he's a excellent dr)He scheduled me to get a floroscope before he would give me a fill since I was a new patient.Well while looking at x-ray he saw a shadow near my esphogus.,so he sent me to a specialist who did a biopsy etc.Thank God it wasn't cancerous,but I do have a hiaterial hernia as well a bacteria in my stomach. So far I'm on nexum until the specialist gets back from vacation.Sooo just wondering has anyone else had this problem and what the outcome was. I was also told my band might have to be removed:scared2:"nooooo" I also realize that eveyone is different, but I really need encouragement that everything will be alright........

Did he mention the name of the bacteria in your stomach? By any chance is it H. Pylori?

When I had the lap band put in the doctor saw I had a hiatal hernia and repaired it when he put the band in. I think that's fairly common. I don't know if it would show up as a "shadow". Good luck, hope all goes well.

A few years ago I had bacteria in my stomach. It was H pylori. 2 weeks on antibiotics and it was all gone.