Hello, here is my story(keeping it short and not so sweet) and I am looking for anyone else out there who may have experienced the same thing. On May 18th 2009 I had my LAP-BAND®® placed. I was fine for the first four weeks only being able to eat very very minimal(way less then my surgeon said) . Then the nightmare began, I started nonstop vomiting and vomiting and vomiting. I was admitted to the hospital and waited for July fourth to come around and my surgeon to decide something needed to be done. I underwent a LAP-BAND®® adjument and a hernia repair. Thinking all was well I was released two days later. I then started the nonstop vomiting and SEVERE stomach pain. I was admitted to the hospital again spending another three weeks in there doped up on pain meds. Then I told my surgeon I believed the band was causing this and I wanted it OUT!!! Sometime at the start of Aug 2009 (to doped up on pain meds to remember)they removed the band. Since then I have spent a total of 6 more weeks in the hospital with severe vomiting and severe stomach pain. The band has been out for two months yet I am still in constant pain and vomit almost after every little morsal I can eat. Has anyone else had anything like this occur and how can I get help. My surgeon has washed his hands of me and the GI docs think it was because I became addiceted to the pain meds? The ones they prescribed to me ! HELP I need to know there is a light at the end of my tunnel of darkness. I was never sick before the surgery just FAT:mad:
