courtneyc

I have had problems with my lap band for over a year now....but lately it has gotten much worse. I will skip the long story and get to the way I am right now....I cannot eat. I cannot drink. I puke ALL the time, even though I have not been ingesting anything. I was up all night last night with severe heartburn and vomiting this dark brown/black stuff. Yesterday I called a couple of places (was banded in Mexico, years ago) that are centers for bariatric care...one said they would call me back and the other said to go straight to the ER. During my 7 hour stay at the ER, I got bored and called the place again that was supposed to call me back but never bothered...they promptly made me an appointment to be seen next Tuesday. But WHY???? Don't they see that I am hurting here? As for the ER doctor....well I don't feel like he understands my situation...he wasn't even LISTENING to me. He gave me a care sheet on how to help control nausea and vomiting, and an RX for some nausea pills to be taken 4 times/day. BUT I CAN'T SWALLOW PILLS!!!! I kept telling him that and he offered to give me something liquid....but I can't keep ANYTHING down! I kept telling him that I think something is wrong with my lap band and the nurse offered me a suppository since I cannot keep anything down but that wouldn't fix my lap band! And I am not nauseated! I just feel like I swallowed a rock and I have SEVERE heartburn and I cannot eat or drink. Can someone help me figure out what I can do to get a doctor to listen to me?? I am feeling HOPELESS and OVERWHELMED...I can't stop crying and I am in pain and I don't know what to do....

Hello...my name is Courtney...I was banded in 2005....I was desperately trying to save my doomed marriage by doing something drastic to lose weight....so I ran off to Mexico and had the surgery...my husband and I were optimistic and hopeful, and here I sit in front of this computer, almost 3 years later, almost the same size, and divorced. Don't get me wrong....leaving that son of a bitch was the best thing that I have ever done. I am now leading the full, happy life I always deserved...I don't have someone making me feel bad all the time because I am not the trophy wife I used to be when I was 20. But I have GOT to get this thing OUT of me...there are days when I cannot even drink sips of Water. I had x rays a while back and was told the sutures at my port were undone. Whatever. I don't care what the problem is, slippage, I puked too much...none of that matters to me right now because I want it removed from my body FOREVER. Not fixed. Just gone. This procedure was NOT for me. That uncomfortable feeling that people are so grateful for is worthless to me. I WAS able to push past it...but not anymore, not since I can't even enjoy my morning coffee. I am confused, though....see I got my band from Dr. Kuri when he was with Joanne and that other company....belightweight or something like that. So I don't know which one to contact, or how, or if either of them care to remove it for me. (Dr Kuri or the someone else from that company?) I have no money because I have literally started from scratch since my divorce, so I am hoping one or the other still honors that free removal of the band thing. Also I have heard it is alot more dangerous to go to Mexico now...so I don't know if I should go back there or just live a few more years with this misery until I can afford to get it out here in the states.