sarah98

I had my surgery almost 2 yrs ago and my last fill was back in Feb of 2010. Everything was fine until a few months ago. I noticed that I was vomiting alot and nauseous, and could hardly keep fluids down. Then about 2 weeks ago I noticed that it hurt to take deep breaths and I started coughing alot, especially at night. I have to sleep on 3 pillows to stay upright to help. I wake up in the middle of night with vomit in my throat and will proceed to get sick multiple times throught the night and day. I have a weird gurggling noise in my throat that is loud and other people can hear. Sometimes when I cough I cough up mucus. Could this be caused due to my band slipping?

I had my upper Gi and found out that my band is laying flat instead of at an angle and that is what has been causing all the issues. It is caused my the band slipping or my stomach pouch got to big and pushed the band down over time. They took all the fluid out of my band and I seem to be doing better. The surgeon is going to review my film to see if if did slip or was pushed down. If it slipped I will need surgery if it was pushed down I will have to wait 3 months get another upper gi and then if everything looks ok, they can start to fill it again.

What I have found out about the band slippage is the location of the band, front or back of the stomach, if they didn't suture up your stomach under the band, that can cause it to slip and excessive vomiting. I think mine may be caused by the excessive vomiting. I got really sick at Christmas from eating something my body can digest and ever since then I haven't been the same. It is just over the past few weeks that it has gotten really bad. Your hunger may be due to your band not being filled yet. They usually put the band in un filled so your body can adjsut to it so during that time you have no restriction and you can eat like normal. Hopefully after your first fill you will notice a difference. I didn't lose that much weight the first couple of months, but once I got my band adjusted to my sweet spot the weight started coming off alot eaiser. Keep up the good work and good luck!

I would be discouraged too. I hope that if it is because of slippage that they can fix it and not have to redo. The coughing at night is not fun. I cough so much I can't breathe. I feel like I live in the bathroom and I have gotten to the point where I don't want to eat in public becasue I don't want to get sick. I hope that your situation gets better and the weight will start to come off again!

I am going for an upper GI on Wednesday to see if they can figure it out