Hi everyone I am new to this forum and learned about this one from another forum I had no idea this was available. I got my band in March of 2004 I started at 260 and I am 5'1, I was down to about 235 last december but then started getting some side effects like frequent acid reflux and pain in the chest and around the port area. It was a struggle the whole time to loose a couple of pounds here and there like i said two year I was only done 25 lbs. I even went on nutrisystem and got a personal training nothing work well enough. Then the pain and problems started to happen, I am going to be honest with you I gave up I was working my brain off trying to get rid of this butt. They did a upper GI and the liquid was not doing down it was just kind of going up and down and up and down before digesting creating the acid to come up so it wasn't letting me drink Water I had to eat while drinking or my liquid would stay in the area banded. And the endoscopy shows a few ulcers so my doctors wants to remove it and revise it to RNY I am so scared. I was wondering if anyone here had the noises in the throat and constant acid reflux and port spasms I sneeze and I get a charlie horse in my side. I was laid out and the gym once trying to do a sit up it was so embarassing. Sorry for the rambling just looking for some advice or someone with my similiar experience.
Chance