topaz25

Hi, I have registered on behalf of my wife who is currently in hospital recovering from severe complications caused by an eroded stomach. The band was fitted about 11.5years ago and for some years she had complained of pain in the region but as she had a previous misadventure with imaging dye being introduced into her pancreas during an endoscopic examination, her doctor's decided on chronic pancreatitis. When her condition continued to deteriorate they decided to remove the band and this happened on the 19th April this year; by this time she extensive abdominal and peritonial abscesses and an abdominal fistula that is draing to this day. Earlier this week she had a stent fitted into her stomach to cover the leak that has persisted despite naeso duodenal and TPN feeding and gallons of antibiotics. She was experiencing dramatic nausea and pain and at the rate she was going down hill she was not going to see Christmas but thankfully there appears to be a turn around, although it is early days yet and she still has at least 2 to 3 weeks of drip feeding to go yet before know how successful the stent has been. My advice? Get it out as soon as possible. Have a gastric swallow with CT imaging to check for leaks and monitor for infections.