markles

she is now under the same team who fitted the band but hayho the leader or surgeon is away till next week, its all just so slow watching paint dry syndrome, she has had a scan as well so would presume that a slipage or stones would have shown on this.

I am writing on behalf of my wife who currently resides in a london hospital fed up and far from home. My wife has had her lap band for some 18 months without major episode until now. For the past coulple of months she has been involuntary burping and gurgling and that leant to our sense of humour to begin with. We were just on holiday in canary islands where she was unable to process any food or liquids, these cause severe acid and back pain and was relieved by being sick. A visit to a doctor sent us to hospital were we found out that the insurance cover did not cover our problem!! The doctor did various test include a camera down throat and a x meal. The doctor decided to the cause of the problem was the band was to tight and had many attempts to put a needle into the port to remove liquid to which end he failed. Following this next he cut my wife open uner local and had two nurses hold the cut open while he had his hand inside locating the port, the local wore off and my wife was crying and telling him that all could be felt but he carried on and managed to break the port taking out 4.5cc. To finish his handy work he closed the cut and stiched up leaving three swabs inside! We cut short our stay and returned to the uk where my wife went straight to hospital. Following a scan we presume to rule out such things as gullstones and slipage and another barame meal, by the way the prevous meal still glowed brightly form a test a week earlier, it has been deemed that the liquid has gone through without problem. Still she cannot take sips of liquid without the acid burning sensation and pain to her back. she currently feels like a naughty school girl having again been told off for making herself sick to releave her pain. The medical staff say that all needs to settle down, but we feel it wont if she keeps straining to be sick. We feel the medical staff are unaproachable and wondered if anyone could point to any cause of the problem ie hiatal hernia so we can at least suggest something as a possible cause?

she's having her third endoscopy tommorow and yes there is coffee grounds in the sick

While banded was and is, experiencing acid burning sensation when any liquid sips are taken, an emergency surgeon ham fistly broke the port away clumsely from the rest of the lap band and released 4.5cc of fluid from a total of 5cc. Now that sugery is over in Spain we returned to the uk to be hospitalised straight away with the need to have iv fluids to feed her. Further she still cannot take liquids without causing acid or sickness, even with anti acid drugs being administered. Today my wife was chastised for make herself sick by the doctor accompanied by his entourage. She sips Water as instructed today. This evening she fought tooth and nail with the acid burning her insides until the point she was involuntary sick with the unacknowleged coffee grounds within and finally got some acknowledgment that blood is present in the sick. Morphine is injected tonight as additional pain relief to paracetamol. Still no idea as the cause