Sharty

See if your doctor will prescribe reglan liquid. It has worked for me so far.

I was also banded on 3/11 and I have had the dry heaves and strange feeling in my stomach. My doctor put me back in the hospital from Sat. till Mon. running a ct, upper gi and an endoscopy, which were all of course normal. He has me doing reglan liquid 4 times a day and it helps with the dry heaves. Still have the wierd felling stomach though. Don't have any energy still. Thank goodness I took off work all of this week. Pray that I feel better for Monday.

wow....im sure glad im not the only one struggling with this, i am frakin hungry all the time but i think it is a mental thing with me too, i so used to eat what i want when i want and i am really learning the hard way, but i am learning. Marty Banded since Oct. 13, 2008

I was banded on 10/17/08. The doc said everything went well. He said there are 2 sizes of bands and he put the larger one on me. But ever since I woke up from surgery I have bad pain either in my shoulder and now my stomach. I have had upper GI studies, a CT scan and xrays to make sure everything is in place. Went back to the doc on Friday and he said it was still gas and that there was a lot of swelling in there. I have not been able to eat anything since Sunday. Everytime I eat something my stomach kills me. I don't know what to do!!! I am miserable. Does anyone have any suggestions or help? I am eating gas x chewables and drinking milk of mag. Sharty

I have eaten some mashed peas today and that was ok, i have a list of food now and it tells me what to eat at the stage im at so we will see, are you doing well, how long have you been banded? Marty

I am still sick and have a lot of gas, cant belch, i even tried a little chicken noodle soup, nothing but hurting and freaking gas, I am so sick of this, I had my surgery on 10/13 should I not be doing better?

I had an ok day yesterday, tried yogerut for dinner and done real good, so lets see what today holds.

why did you have your band removed?:eek:

Oh Yea, I did have a glass of wine last night and oddly enough I think it helped me, is that weird???

Well it is almost 11:00 am and this morning I tried eating a cooked egg, over medium of course, I could only eat half of it and so far so goob but the next couple of hours will tell, it sounds like a volcano that is fixing to errupt in my belly, so we will see, I'll let you know, you folks have been so helpful!!!!

I am walking alot, but literally when I try to eat anything after it hits my stomach I am in pain. I have tried milkshakes, Protein shakes, broth. The pain isn in my stomach when I try to eat. When it starts hurting I have to go lay down to try and get relief. I wonder what I can do to help the swelling & inflamation go away?