mnwhit

Ok, I got my lap band in 2006 and I just recently started having trouble with my IBS...my gastro dr. has done a colonoscopy, endoscope with bravo. The endo showed my lap band had slipped up toward my esphogaus (5cm) it's suppose to be at 10cm.....so I go to the dr who put the lapband on with gastro drs report in hand and he say's "gastro dr doesn't know what he is looking at"...so lapband dr removes saline and guess what the nausea stopped....i told him i wanted it removed.... now he wants to do an upper GI and another endoscope. this is getting tiresome....i'm lost i don't know what to do....gastro says its lapband....lapband dr says its not...all i know is i can't leave my house because i have uncontrollable IBS that the gastro dr thinks is somewhat being caused by the band....has anyone else had any problems with their band slidding up? Also called my insurance and they say they won't pay to have the lapband removed...GREAT!

Ok, my bariatric dr did an endoscope on me today along with another upper GI and I do have lapband slippage and a hiatal hernia.....he wants to do surgery to fix the hernia and the band...he has suggested that I also have the iLap done....it is a new procedure that he has been doing for over a year....i'm just not sure...he tells me if I have the lapband removed that I will gain back all my weight plus some; that would put me over 300 lbs.....I've been looking for info on the iLap and everything I read is good with the exception that "is it or is it not reversible" and that it is still being investigated. Have any of you had it done.....