missmakeupgrrl

thanks for posting your details...ive got a prolapse and its good to see a positive experience...

I dont think i've seen a story quite like mine on here yet - so I will detail what happened to me so hopefully if anyone else has had the same problems they can let me know. I was banded 08/08/2008 - I lost 7kg on 3 weeks of Optifast before surgery. I had my band put in, and when I awoke from surgery I was very very sick with vomiting. They pretty quickly gave me anti nausea and I was ok. After a few days I was able to start working from home. I did as my surgeon said (and ignored advice on the forums - because my surgeon has done so many patients. He's a leading surgeon in Australia) and did liquids for 2 weeks and then went to mushies after it. I lost another 7 kg's over the next couple of months. I had Fluid put into my band - and really struggled to eat food. Its been so long now, I dont remember what these initial stages were really like. I went back to my surgeon and advised I was having trouble eating. They worked with me on the kinds of foods to eat - and I changed my diet. It was like I was eating around my band. It was never what I thought it would be like. I couldn't eat the foods they had once told me would be possible. I had all the fluid out - and I ate a small steak. I felt full, but it was ok. I say that I ate a steak - because with nothing in my band now I couldn't dream of eating red meat like steak. I would throw it all up for hours. I must not have been prolapsed at this time. I had fluid put back in, and a couple of times it had to be removed straight away as within 24-48 hours I wouldn't even be able to drink Water. They then over the next couple of months tried very small increments of fluid in the band - which would have the same reaction and wind up getting taken out. I was then sent for a gastroscopy (found nothing) and a barrium meal (also appeared fine). I went back to my surgeon in frustration, and he ordered video nanometry. This found that I had a prolapsed band. I had nothing in my band, but continued to throw up and couldn't eat a lot of solid foods. In total, I lost 7kg on the preop diet, and 7kg after being banded. I have gone through a year of hell - not knowing what was going to make me sick, feeling uncomfortable so often and all to see no real weight loss. Since the video nanometry revealed the prolapse, I have seen my surgeon. He's got me booked in for surgery this week to revise the band and place it back in, in the correct position. What I am unsure about is wether or not I even want to keep the band. Im not sure I can live life with this much pain and uncertainty. Frankly, I just became single a couple of weeks ago - and although the idea of being slim appeals - I just dont think anyone would tolerate my constant sickness and issues that the band gives me. Maybe life with the band isn't like this for other people - but this is all I have known. Im wondering if I should just get it removed all together. If you have any thoughts, please share. Thankyou for reading...I know it was long.

Im not sure what RNY is - but im very opposed to anything that actually isn't reversible and changes my physiology. If it goes wrong, I can't have it reversed. I think t this stage im going to have the revision and see ho it goes. If it doesn't work out, it will be removed. Thanks for your comments.

Hi Dave I've joined. Thanks for creating the site :thumbup: MMG

I just wanted to add that I asked my surgeon about soda (or Soft Drinks, here in Australia) and they said it was a myth. They prefer you dont have much of them because the chemicals are rubbish for you..