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thanks again every one...just been to see a loculm doctor and guess what gave me a prescription for gaviscon advance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. told him i have no reflux but he said try it for a few days..... he never even moved out of the chair!!!!!! god dont you just love the NHS (NOT)......... i am giving it one more week on the PPI's then i am going to get firm with my surgeon who did the band and tell him to look again. i would love the sleeve now just want the band gone if it causes this much pain..... i am going to ask a price maybe then he will listen......... thanks again every one carina........

I hope someone can help me......i was banded in Oct 07. i have a 9ml band with 4mls in and i have been plodding along nicely untill about 5 weeks ago. aboute 5 weeks ago my band became suddenly very tight, so tight that i could not even swallow my own salivia. when i went to work the next morning i was bringing up my salivia every 6 mins roughly...i went along to my A&E i am a nurse at the same hospital.... they tried over 40 times to defill my band. in the end they were able to defill it after trying for several hours....i had some fluid and they put back 4mls which i have in the band now.... anyway i felt a bit sore on the port site but that was because they had tried to stab me so many times.... then 2 weeks later i had a pain in my left side like i had pulled a muscle...i took pain meds but the pain got worse. it felt like i had a knife in my left hand side but no one could see it......lol... i went to A&E again who did a CT and X.RAYS and a barrium swallow... they said they thought my band had slipped up to high.... but went on to say that i would have to go back to my provider who did the surgery as they were unsure aboute lap band surgery and that i was the 1st person they had seen with one!!!!. i had them copy it to a CD and posted this to my surgon. he replied by saying that there was nothing wrong with the band and could not understand why i was still in so much pain..... i then went to my G.P ( local doctor) who commenced me on stronger pain meds and Omeprazole 20mg 3 times a day.... when i take these meds regulary i am sort of normal...... but today i tried to come off the meds... and my god the pain has been so bad i wanted to cry.... i can not stand up tall and i am hunshed over like an old lady.....and the pain on my left side just below my rib cage is the worst pain i have ever had in my life...... so hence i am back on the meds...... even when i try to eat anything it hurts in my throat.... i am so fed up now i just want to know what is wrong...and what i can do.....i cant keep on taking meds back to back... please please please if any one can give me any advise at all i would be soooooooooooooooo greatfull..... my surgon says one thing and my local A&E say something else..... thanks Carina Thompson England.....

thankyou so much every one for youre support, you cant believe what a great help you have all been..... over here in England i live in a small village, just off Weston-super- mare, near a city called Bristol....... and lap band surgergy is so unheard off!!!!. anyway i have continued to take the Acid meds these being Omeprazole 20mg 3 times a day. and my god they have worked..... i am not rolling around in pain any more and i have even been out to the shops...bless....... i have never in my life expericened pain like it....... i am now just got a dull ache around my port site allmost like i have pulled a muscle........................... i went off to lunch with a friend ...she turned up to pick me up just as i was writing my last message above..... well i have only been out for 2 hours and i have had to come home.....as soon as i started eating the pain got worse spreading round my back.....to me that is a pain from eating to much...but i have no trouble in swallowing just the pain after eating... its a different pain to the pain i am geeting from my port site... this pain is a constant dull ache....the tablets have been working so well... i thought i was getting better. but when the pain is back i just want a hot bath...and i find it painfull to stand up tall. it is less painfull if i bend over slightly.... i have just booked to see my G.P tomorrow at 10.10 am england time.....i could not get in to day. i am ment to be going back to work next week, and i work on a busy ward at the hospital doing 10 hrs shifts Monday to Friday...and i am worried i wont cope....and i have never been off sick befor and this time i have been off work for 4 weeks.............and they want me back.....but i just want to be back to normal...... could it be gas in my abdo, that causes this intense abdo pain after i have eaten.....and where is it comming from, i have never had this befor........ and my port site is so sore what could that be...i am sure i can feel a lump next to it... bit this just might be fat......... so far i have lost 6 and half stone and i now weigh 12 stone 2 lb....in 16 months and never ever had a problem in all that time....... thankyou every one so much ...i wish i could come over and meet you all and have a good chat..... carina thompson.....

Oregondaisy thankyou so much for getting back to me. A&E is accident and emergency this must be the same as the ER in youre side of the world....... the pain when i eat is horrid....and the tablets i am taking are for acid and gas but i dont have ant heartburn???. my whole left side can become hard and the pain is sooooooooo bad....and when i swallow it feels like it is going down the wrong tube and i get thepain in my back..... i was banded in Southampton which is 3 hrs aay from where i live in England and i am self pay...£6000. and my surgeon only is in this country every Thursday...he travels from Gurnsey.... but if the pain gets bad today i am going back to my GP and demand that something is done...... Marydivinsky...my god to have stopped breathing and to have had CPR is very bad.....low H/R AND DEHYDRATION can this lead to full CPR.... i would be demanding the full works of checks to see if incase it has nothing to do with the band.... you are just so lucky that you were at work when it happened because you know the difference it could of been if you had been at home!!!!!!. and you dont want that to happen.......my god my problem seems so smalll compared to yours........ but thankyou for your replies its been such a relief to talk to people who care and understand.... the gastric band is still so new and unheard of over here.... thanks Carina x x x

Hi Mrs D, I have been searching for ages to try and find a support group, that is in the south west. me and my mum were banded in October, and hopefully my dad is having the bipass in a few weks time. we all live in weston, so would love to meet up at the group you have listed. is it still on.. thankyou carina x

hi guys me and my mum were banded on thursday, my mum had complications and had to have her spleen removed, she had scar tissue and it was nipped and then the surgen spent 2 hours tring to stop the bleeding.but sadly had to remove it in the end. i am so worried she looks terrible. she has just come out of intensive care and back to her private room. but what now. whats life like with out her spleen. and i was the one who talked her to have it done with me, "new life for us both etc..." what have i done, i am fine i feel like i have pulled a muscle on my left side, but thats all. :thinkcarina

:thinkLindaa thankyou so much for youre kind words, we are in england so i am so happy we went for a well known hospital group. but i have been reading up on life with out a spleen on the internet and it says that the morbility rate in the 1st 2 years is 50% because of infection..........have you or anyone out there ever heard of this befor happening to a bandster. i am only greatfull she is here with me today, and so happy i did not loose her in surgery. but thaks for your very kind words.....just wish i could turn the clock back. thankyou carina x x x:)

Hi everyone, my name is carina and i am being banded in southhampton on 4th October, its a 6 hour round trip, but the price in my home town near Bristol was £2500 more,. anyway cant wait for it to happen now, even my husband and 4 kids are happy for me, they have never known me slim. this is my 1st message ever, and hope to get oon the computer every day so i can talk to people who understand....

hi its me again {carina). how do i put my bar on my messages for my weight loss. like you all have. sorry i know i am dumb as far as these things go.i have been on the site and made one, . x x x x:help:

hi i am having my band on the 4th in southhampton in England, so its good to hear of others,,,,,goood luck to you all. our new lifes start here, love to you all Carina :rose::clap2:

hi my surgery date is the 4th in southhampton {England) so excited.....but nervous to , as so many people here seem to be having the sleeve or bypass. they reckon that you can fail so eaisly on the band, and they would rather pay the extra and go for the gold surgery, as they call it, but i will do my best and try hard to make it work.