jennylynn_14

I hate to hear that you're going through this, but slightly relieved to hear someone understands...I'm six years post band, started to become underweight...upper scope by GI showed band slip and HHernia...waited a few months and decided to have conversation about band removal...first time seeing surgeon in 3 years...he was able to remove fluid from band 9/12...9/17 had extremely swollen legs, 9/19 scale showed 30lb weight gain. Started Lasix and some fluid has come off but now I have a distended abdomen...constipated, meds only way to get relief...surgeon does another scope, says all is fine and I must be eating too much...that was 10/14 where I had then weighed an additional 10lbs So within 30 days I've gained 40lbs, can't have a normal BM, or wear anything that's not elastic waisted...I don't know if I could've gained that much trying...look pregnant and feel so uncomfortable...waiting on insur to approve CT ..just hoping the mystery can be solved SOON!

Lap band surgery 5/24/10 - 107 lbs lost as of 2/6/12. Had fill 2/6/12, and realized over last day or so I'm overfilled so I went back today to get some taken out. (Night coughs/reflux, unable to keep anything down, etc.) Went back today, already lost 7.5lbs - definte sign of overfill. Doc couldn't get into my port, after several tries he realized the port flipped, he seemed more upset than me. My port was sutured to my wall just like the majority of patients. No idea how it happened or why. Going sometime in next day or so to get it taken care of. Came on here to see if anyone could give details on the surgery to correct the flip, nothing found so far but see that everyone is curious about the flip. From my understanding this is a 10% chance thing of happening. Bumping into something could do it. I wonder if my hard vomiting did it. Friend tried to give me silver lining and say I'll hit goal weight in a month or so due to complication, love the energy he's trying to feed, but not situation. I'm pretty calm, waiting for it to hit me, but it hasn't yet. Just trying to go with the flow.