I was banded last year in July. In the last 19 months I have lost 85 pounds which has been great. Gone from a size 24/26 to a 16. Off my blood pressure meds...which I was on at 35. Have 2 great kids and a wonderful husband who has been supportive. However over the last 10 months I have really been in a bad cycle with my fills. Fills are fine in the office...do liquids for 2-3 days...then it gets really tight in the morning...sometimes to the point where liquids won't go thru...pain when I eat ...then the vomiting starts and I swell closed....get unfilled...feel better...no restrictions...gain weight...fill again...sometimes I am fine for a month or 2 then the band tightens for some reason...the cycle starts over. I had one spell where I couldn't drink for 4 days and I began vomiting up my saliva every hour because I was swollen shut..ended up in the hospital. My last spell was before Thanksgiving and was "unfilled". Went back last monday got a fill. I had in 1.3 and DR added .5cc. (He took out .7 at last unfill.) He says I am really sensitive to fills, but come on folks!! Right now I can get liquids and soup down. There a lot of pain...I've been x-rayed up and down so no slipping. It starts with burning then becomes out and out waves of pain. Today I've had lots of water, 16 oz of V8 sugar free frut juice for breakfast, a container of yogurt for snack, 1/2 cup of soup for lunch and for supper mashed potsw/green beans. Some pain with yogurt and soup was ok, but vomited up the mashed pot/ with very very very mushy gr beans. I feel like I have to burp all the time. I don't want to fail and am tired of this. Anyone else been through this. Any help out there? I've never posted on anything in my life so hang with me if I do it wrong...Thanks!
