I understand the PBing thing, but My question is this:

What happens if you get the flu, food poisoning, or the like?

Slippage is a bad thing I know, and vomiting effects that. Do they give you a permanent perscription for antinausea medicine?

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Soon after banding, I called my pcp for an anti-nausea med just incase I did get a "bug". Ive never used it, but like the insurance in having it.

Just a note of experience...

during my year of being banded, I have actually vomited several times (this is grose, I know, but its life!). Not as a result from a virus, but just a here and there thing (ate something that didnt agree).

Stomach convulsing for several hours or vomiting for many days is what needs to be highly avoided.

3 weeks after being banded I got food posioning & threw up over 15 times in one day. (It was disgusting!!) I was scared to death that I was making my band slip or causing some damage. The food posioning was from a local restaurant & only lasted 24 hrs. I survived & am fine. I am now 3 months out & have had no problems.

I asked the doc that when I went in for my first meeting with him on Monday. He said that if you're feeling nauseous, go to Urgent Care or even the ER if necessary and get an anti-nausea shot...they definitely recommend going in sooner rather than trying to "tough it out" like most of us are prone to do.