So I went to the doctor on Monday for a fill (my second one) and while I was there he had new pictures of the things that can go wrong. Yes actual pictures, :eek:SCAREY! He had a picture of an eroded band and of slippage of a band. It made me a little queasy. SO here is my question. How does that happen? How do you get an eroded band and/ or slippage? is it from over eating? Is it from drinking with food? Is it just the luck of the draw and any of us are at risk? I guess I am a little paranoid because I was private pay and there is no way I could now afford to have a problem "fixed" I also hear of people whose band is leaking and they have to re-do that. How the heck do you know when that has happened? Thanks and God bless.:thumbup::eek:

I'm curious what the slipped band photo looked like? From my understanding both things usually happen from chronic overeating. When they put in your band they place it and then they take a piece of the stomach and pull it up so it covers one side of the band and then stitch it at the top (to where your pouch is). If you overeat a lot the back side of your stomach that was not stitched slides up through the band to increase the size of your pouch. I'm not sure of all the symptoms, but I've heard of pain obviously with erosion, and you lose restriction with a leak. I think some even have too much restriction with a slip eventually as the stomach pulls up and through and the fat part of the original stomach starts to bunch up in the band, but some lose restriction (I think that's if you catch it early). Just keep an eye on your portion sizes and some of this you just can't control. -BG

I have a friend of my who was banded last year in April and she found out about 2 weeks ago that her band had slipped. She was also a self pay and had her surgery done in Mexico. She goes to a local dr here, and after getting a fluroscopy that's how she knew. Her syptoms that she had every day was vomiting, she could only drink protein and soft foods.. when she ate solid foods she was vomiting. I told her months ago when it start happening to go to the dr.. but she didn't. The dr had to remove all the fill from her band and told her to come back in 6 weeks and that the band might fix itself. I don't know how true that is, but I guess she'll see in the next month or so.