Donna German Ellison

Our protocal at work for someone in your situation, after we have confirmed it with flouroscopy, is an unfill and liquids for 2 weeks. Under flouroscopy your pouch would more than likely show a dilation, basicly creating a "stomach on top of your stomach" and have "pissed" your stomach off with constant vomiting and BPing, in non technical terms. Your stomach is retaliating by swelling. By having an unfill and doing liquids you give your stomach a chance to relax and calm down, thus reducing the swelling and decreasing the dilation by not having solids sit in the pouch with nowhere to go. By liquids I am talking about protien drinks, healthy smoothies, soups in a blender, nothing with lumps or bumps. Please don't take this a medical advise, just my opinion as a band fill nurse who see's these complaints on a daily bases.

You should not be sliming or PBing with everything you eat or drink. You should get into your doctor and have an unfill.

I am a fill nurse and fill approximatly 20 patients a day at the surgeons office. We do our fills under flouroscopy each and every time. That gives us the ability to find the port without multiple tries and also do a barium swallow to adjust the fill as needed instead of "guessing" as to how much of a fill a patient needs. What size band do you have? It sounds like you are too tight. When you are not able to eat you will not lose weight. Whatever you are able to keep down your body is holding onto because it thinks you are starving it so its going to hold on to all the weight you have.

I am a fill nurse and fill approximatly 20 patients a day at the surgeons office. We do our fills under flouroscopy each and every time. That gives us the ability to find the port without multiple tries and also do a barium swallow to adjust the fill as needed instead of "guessing" as to how much of a fill a patient needs. What size band do you have? It sounds like you are too tight. When you are not able to eat you will not lose weight. Whatever you are able to keep down your body is holding onto because it thinks you are starving it so its going to hold on to all the weight you have.