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My mother had the surgery last October and seemed to be doing fine. In the past three months, she's been in and out of six hospitals, with fluid around heart and lungs, rapid/irregular heart rate, enlarged lymph nodes. No one knows what the problem is. Anyone else heard of these kinds of problems after LB surgery?:thumbup:

My mother (70) had this surgery last October and seemed to be doing well. However, in the past three months, she has been in and out of six hospitals with fluid around the heart and lungs (causing breathing difficulty), enlarged lymph nodes and racing heart at times. Fluid gets drained but continues to build up. Multiple tests/xrays done but doctors are stumped. The only thing that makes sense is that it could be related to her LB (the only thing that is new). She has not seen her LB doctor since all this started but he was aware of one admission and ordered a test to check for leakage in esophagus, stomach. No problem there. Anyone out there heard of these types of problems after LB?

How do I contact Dr C?

Thanks everyone for your support and suggestions. Mom's condition remains a mystery. We hoped that tests of the fluid around the lung and lung tissue samples would provide some clues. The good news is no cancer or other problems they could find. The bad news is we still don't know what is causing these problems with her heart rhythm (racing) and fluid building up on heart, lungs. She got a procedure which will keep the fluid from building up in lungs but where will it go now? The abdomen. I've warned Mom to watch for fast weight gain - if more than 2 lbs. a day, she should call her doctor. I will contact Dr C (whoever that is) and pose my questions to him. I posted this message in the Post Op Problems section of the Forum with the same message. MORAL OF MY STORY: PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR BODY AND CALL THE DOCTOR IF YOU START FEELING HEAVINESS IN YOUR CHEST OR YOUR HEART STARTS RACING. If Mom "toughed it out", she would be dead by now. (I apologize for being so morbid.)

This continues to be a mystery. Mom's results from tests of lung fluid and tissue samples show no disease, no cancer. With all of these hospital stays, she has reached her goal weight. She has consistently become weaker with each hospital stay so she is going to have her band loosened and hope that more food will give her back her energy...and maybe her life back. Until she is fully recovered or something else is diagnosed (no tests are pending though), I will wonder if her lap band is (was) causing these problems and will continue to research. MORAL OF MY STORY: STAY AWARE OF YOUR BODY AND CALL THE DOCTOR IF YOU START FEELING ILL. BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY.

Thank you for your reply. I have doubted that her lap band is the cause of her problems but doctors can't figure it out, so anything is possible, right? She has been seen by cardiologists and they found no heart disease. She is being released from the hospital and results from lung samples are pending. (She was a smoker for 30 years but Doc said everything he saw looked benign.)

Thank you for your reply. This guy does sound like he's dealing with the same mysterious illness or ailment, poor guy. I'm a newbie to this forum. What is WLS?:thumbup: