jlynn

My prayers too...it's crazy...seems surreal...

I have, I just have to wait for them to call me back today...they want me to come in, I'm sure. I just don't want them to empty me out! I finally have the restriction back that I had!

You do feel like that? It's been a week and two days...and I just have like a lingering heavy feeling in my belly....went to the regular dr yesterday, not my band dr, he said it must be my band, cuz everything else seems fine? Who knows, but it hurts, so called where I got my band, and will probably end up going there this evening. Thanks for sharing, I'm ok w/ TMI, because it helps to know someone has the same thing as me! :eek:

Hey everybody, I haven't posted in a while, mostly because it seems like I just type and it floats in cyberspace. If anyone sees this and can relate, it would be cool....I got a fill over a week ago...I feel pretty restricted, which is nice for a change. But I've had a terrible stomach ache since...like I'm constipated or full of gas or something...but I've taken things to go to the bathroom, and it's still there...feels like there's a lead balloon in my gut...is this from the band, do you think? I haven't had any reflux or anything like that...just the stomach ache that won't subside....

Hey Beck, I totally get it! I know what you mean....ask a question and you're not sure if someone will respond or whatever....Hopefully this thread will be better, because we're minnesotans! I am from Virginia....had my surgery in Deer River, with Dr Margo...who was awesome. I was kinda spoiled too, for a bit, because he was doing my fills for the first 6 months or more. He was awesome at it....then I started seeing a PA there, and she's good now too, but I'd wanted to go to Duluth, where there's more things I can do, seeing as I'd have to drive an hour anyway.....but now I'm back at Deer River till my problem w/ restriction is solved. I had gotten sick or whatever a couple of months back or so, and since haven't felt restriction.....ever since I'd started seeing Tony in Duluth. I don't know why....I've had an UPPER GI, and GASTROSCOPY, and the gastroscopy said that the band was either slipped, or there was no compression on my stomach...but then they filled me and found no leak, so now I am utterly confused and mystified.....so happens my coworker here who see's tiffany is having the SAME issue....they told her she had 4 cc's in her band...but she had problems, went in, and Tony only pulled out 2.something cc's....crazy. Don't know what's going on, but I feel confused, that's for sure!!!

I was just going to Tony Valentine for a while there...and I had some kind of issue of no restriction that he couldn't figure out, so I went back to my original dr in Deer River....now I go back tomorrow to find out if it's a leak or just if it's not enough in my band, or what....but they are great, super nice...very funny and easy to get along with. I have a cowoworker here who had Medlin too, and has Tiffany for her filler....:girl_hug:)

Where are you from Becks? I haven't seen anyone else on here from up here??

Good luck, you'll do fine...just try to stick to the rules....don't test it....it seems so scary, then you adjust without even really knowing it....

Do you mind if I copy and paste it to show my fellow banders here at work??

That's what I've read...but will you tell me if it seems illogical, that if it slipped up, where it's narrower, that the bad would be less restricted? Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way, but I could see why it would be more restricted slipping down, because there's a bigger amount of stomach being squeezed together...but if it were to move up, maybe it's not restricting it that much? I have a lot of saline in there now, so I don't get it.

I'm confused too...however, it seems logical that it could have slipped up, since I was throwing UP through the band....who the heck knows!

I have no idea what the medial side of the stomach is....does that mean it could slip up? I don't know...I finally go in on Wed to my real doc...I will let you know what he says....I'm totally cornfused.

Loved it,,,

No, it's not, he figured that he must have missed the well, when he was trying to pull that fluid out, he ended up putting more in, then that was there and more when he went in the next time. I'm so confused. The upper GI said it was fine, the scope, the dr said it looked like it moved up, and the band was causing no compression on my stomach...so when he went to take the fluid out, and didn't see any, it seemed logical. But then the next time, it was all there...and he put more in, still no restriction...once in a great while. It just can't be coincidence that it was since I was sick, and throwing up violently. Something's definitely off.