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Slipped, now unfilled... could it go back to normal?

I have been banded now for almost two years. I lost about 60 lbs however about 5 months ago I started having terrible cases of acid reflux (enought that I couldn't sleep a full night). I went to a fill doctor and she unfilled me only .5 cc (which she thought would ease the pain). As it turns out, 4 months later I was still vomiting at night with terrible acid refux, however a terrible cough began and that is when I went in to get the band checked out via laproscopy.

The doctor told me that I had a slip and that 50% of the time i will go back on it own. I am on a liquid diet for 30 days (day 7 today) as they have completely unfilled me and was wondering if there is anyone out there that has had this happen to them and the band went back to its original position?

I am just so desperate for advise and want to be optimistic however from what I have been reading, almost everyone has to get another surgery.

Please respond with any adivse...

Regards, Nicole

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I hope it works out for you Nicole.

I started having night coughs a few weeks ago and it would wake me out of sleep; I would be choking and eventually running to the bathroom and throwing up in the sink sliminess and tasting what I had ate last. I can't handle it anymore. I can't sleep laying flat. I am now sleeping upright in bed. It is not comfortable at all.

I went to my dr 2 weeks ago and he took an x-ray and said the band hadn't slipped. I wonder if an x-ray could really see it or not. He suggested if it didn't go away, to go back to my normal dr and get a prescription for reflux meds. I don't think that will work though because I have been taking Zantac and it has been doing nothing.

I hope this 'slippage' issue doesn't bring an end to our bands. For the last 2 years I have tried really hard to work with my band to be successful. I don't understand how the band could slip so easy? It seems to be around 2 years on everyone here that I have read. It's weird. Almost like a rejection after 2 years.

I hope everything works out for you. Can you recall what if anything would have caused the slippage?

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