Trace Curry

She is perfectly fine now but obviously has no restriction. She opted for removal versus repair. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: If am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

Sometimes I miss posts here - you can come over to our site if you need a question answered. You can either submit it directly to me through the site or post it on the forum there. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

An upper GI will give you most of the info you need, but I would probably also recommend a scope and definitely an unfill. Stuff like this happens, that's the great thing about the band you can always start over. Hang in there, Dr. C

Send it to me digitally if you can I would be happy to look at it. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

I don't know where you're located Carrie but I'd be happy to see you if you can make it to Cincinnati. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

I doubt it. I posted a link on the messageboard on my site that has some helpful info. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

I wouldn't worry too much, the radiologists frequently read these films this way. Even when I know I put the band below the esophagus because I saw it with my very own eyes, sometimes it looks like this on Xray. I stopped getting routine post op barium swallows for this very reason. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

Crystal, MRSA is everywhere nowadays, it has this reputation that it is some sort of evil monster that will track you down and kill you wherever you are. All it is is staph that is not sensitive to most penicillins. In and of itself it is no more harmful than regular staph, just harder to eradicate if it causes a clinically significant infection. There has actually been no research to show that 6 weeks of vancomycin is any better than 1 week of vancomycin, it's just sort of the standard. The problem is giving you 6 weeks of vancomycin would not kill all the MRSA on your skin, because hardly any antibiotic you give into an IV makes it through and onto the surface of the skin. All I would do with you if you were my patient is give you a pre-op dose of vancmycin. Insurance would not deny you because of this. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

This is common to be much looser as the day progresses. This makes it tough as you really have to watch how you eat and may not be able to get much solid food down until dinner. You might go over to my web site and post a message for my banded dietitian on the forum there, she probably has some good tips. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

Cris, It sounds like you're a little overfilled to me. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

If it truly just came disconnected, you don't even have to replace the port just reconnect the two. That would be cheaper as the port itself costs 5 or 6 hundred bucks. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

There is an image of our band-over-bypass patient's upper GI on the forum section of my web site for anyone who wants to see it. I labeled everything so you can see what goes where. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

It's a VG, closed as in locked but not filled. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

Hey folks, I did my first band-over-bypass today (to my knowledge the first one done in Ohio). It wasn't bad really, took less than an hour. I'll keep you all posted on how she does. On another note, a lot of people have been asking me about how my wife is doing - she has lost 70% of her excess body weight and is feeling great! Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

That's correct, it's for patients who have failed RNY that involves putting a Lap Band on their pouch. Here is a picture of it (didn't come out too well unfortunately). Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

I'm confused, Omnipaque is clear, not blue. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

Dear Patients, It's very hard for me to keep up with all the questions between here and ObesityHelp, so if you do have a question for me if you don't mind head over to my website, there is an "Ask the Doctor" tab, or there is a messageboard there where you can post your question! Thanks! Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

Brandy, Sometimes it can be hard to tell if a patient has a leak. If you are consistently losing 1cc or more then I would be worried. Sometimes I think the leaks can be so slow that they don't show on Xray at all. It doesn't surprise me though that you are less restricted with a higher fill amount because your band is in a different position now. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

Hello everyone, I finally got my new site up, and I'd appreciate everyone's input! There is an "Ask the Doctor / Dietitian / Insurance Coordinator" section, forums (under "About our practice" don't ask me why). Check it out, if you see any errors or have any good ideas just contact me through the site! It's www.TheBandDoctor.com Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

Mary, Why don't you go to the site and click on Forums in the upper right, you can post this on my dietitian's messageboard it would be a good question for her. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

There is a really good medication called Ametiza for constiation. We have used it on a number of band patients and they have done well. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!c

I agree newer isn't always better! Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

Jina, You sure can follow up with us - look here: http://www.thebanddoctor.com/default/office-and-financial-info/downloadable-forms For the aftercare forms. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

We put folks on a Medifast diet for 2 weeks prior to surgery. This functions to reduce visceral fat (fat inside the abdomen) and reduce the size of the liver to make laparscopic surgery easier. Using this regimen I have never had to convert a lap band patient to open, so I think it works! Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!

Barbara, My guess is that you either have a hiatal herna (which is very difficult to diagnose in a band patient) or possibly your band could be infected (I have only seen this once but the fevers worry me). Probably the only way to know is to take a look with a laparoscope. Dr. C Cincinnati, Ohio Got a question? Ask the doctor at www.TheBandDoctor.com 877.442.BAND DISCLAIMER: I am not your surgeon, any comments made by me are not meant to be taken as medical advice, just general guidelines. Contact your surgeon about your specific problem!