Lap Band Nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!

[TraceyP 0]

Hello, here is my story(keeping it short and not so sweet) and I am looking for anyone else out there who may have experienced the same thing. On May 18th 2009 I had my LAP-BAND®® placed. I was fine for the first four weeks only being able to eat very very minimal(way less then my surgeon said) . Then the nightmare began, I started nonstop vomiting and vomiting and vomiting. I was admitted to the hospital and waited for July fourth to come around and my surgeon to decide something needed to be done. I underwent a LAP-BAND®® adjument and a hernia repair. Thinking all was well I was released two days later. I then started the nonstop vomiting and SEVERE stomach pain. I was admitted to the hospital again spending another three weeks in there doped up on pain meds. Then I told my surgeon I believed the band was causing this and I wanted it OUT!!! Sometime at the start of Aug 2009 (to doped up on pain meds to remember)they removed the band. Since then I have spent a total of 6 more weeks in the hospital with severe vomiting and severe stomach pain. The band has been out for two months yet I am still in constant pain and vomit almost after every little morsal I can eat. Has anyone else had anything like this occur and how can I get help. My surgeon has washed his hands of me and the GI docs think it was because I became addiceted to the pain meds? The ones they prescribed to me ! HELP I need to know there is a light at the end of my tunnel of darkness. I was never sick before the surgery just FAT:mad:

Edited October 7, 2009 by TraceyP

[melmarlem 0]

I'm sorry this happened to you. I really have no words of advice as I've only been banded for 7 weeks. Thankfully I've not been sick once. I sincerely hope you find the cause of your pain. Hopefully someone here on this site will be able to offer some advice. Hang in there!

[elcee 3,343]

Sorry to hear what you have been through. I am surprised though that the band was removed without them fully investigating what was wrong.

The fact that you are still having problems even though the band has been removed for quite a while would seem to indicate that maybe it was something else and not the band that was causing the problem. You say you also had a hernia repair - possibly the problem is/was related to this.

If your Dr thinks the pain meds could be a problem i am sure he could be right. I have heard of lots of people in whom they cause nausea.

Hope you solve your problem soon.