AnnGolia

My band was put in 10/2006 and I had no problems and lost a great deal of weight, 117 lbs total. I had been maintaining for a couple of years and was very pleased with my results. Then in October of 2013 I was having some slight discomfort under my rib cage. Motrin helped with the discomfort, then the pain went away, just last week the pain came back and on a hunch my Nurse Practicioner ordered a CT scan and that's when it was discovered that my band had migrated into my stomach. My bariatric surgeon called me two days later (after he got the results) and had me come in to go over my options. Surgery is the only choice and then he thinks I will need to wait a minimum of 6 months before I can consider either the gastric sleeve or the bypass, of course providing there are no complications. Also, like Sue I have had no symptoms other than the discomfort (like a strained muscle), and the appetite increase, and no feeling of restriction. I was at 11cc in my band and frustrated that I kept gaining weight. My band is coming out on 3/11/2014 and then the countdown begins towards healing and then hopefully I'll be able to get the gastric sleeve. It is nice to see that some others out there have experienced this as well, and though all the research I did plus talking with my doctor states it is rare but it does happen. My thought was Why did it have to be me?