kels764

Well I just got home from my new bariatric doctor. He did a shielded X-ray (to protect baby) and discovered the tubing from my Lapband to my port hangs loose very low and is attached to my uterus by scar tissue and the reason for my episodes of severe pain is that the tubing is wrapping around my intestines and then it let's loose again.....there's a 1 in 20 chance it can permanently wrap around my intestine and I would have to have emergency surgery but for now until the baby is born it is just a wait and see game......just glad after 2 years of this pain I finally have some answers

The thing I am confused about is they said it slipped up to my esophagus meaning almost no stomach above the band, when a band slips doesn't it usually slip the other direction and produce more stomach above the band?

I agree. I am very upset and angry with my previous bariatric doctor.

I've been dealing with severe stomach pain since November of 2010. My bariatric surgeon never did one single test to see of my band was ok, he brushed it off and said it wasn't the band. Fast forward to the present and I am pregnant with worsening stomach pain, my OB orders an ultrasound and the band has slipped all the way up to my esophagus. I have an appointment with a new bariatric surgeon tomorrow morning to see the next steps we can take since I am pregnant. I am scared to death.

I had my upper GI done before I was pregnant and I don't have a surgeon right now.....or should I say a surgeon that gives a crap about what's going on. About 6 months after being banded I began having severe on and off stomach pain that my surgeon never ran any kind of tests to see what was going on, luckily I am a nurse and work for a doctor who ordered several tests for me that showed the band was in place. And since the band is in place and it's not slipped, my surgeon wants nothing to do with me and swears up and down it has nothing to do with the band.....I don't have a gallbladder so I know it's not that, Ive been checked for a hernia so I know it's not that. In arkansas, it's difficult to get in to another surgeon because they don't want to touch another surgeons patient. So I've given up on any help from any Lapband doctors and am going to see a gastroenterologist and am saving money to have this Lapband removed as soon as the baby is born. This Lapband has been nothing but pure hell from the very beginning and I cannot wait to have it removed. Id rather be fat and happy than skinny and in pain all of the time.

Is that when they put the scope down your throat and into your stomach? I'm pregnant so I know they won't be able to do anything like that until after I have the baby but I had an upper GI when all of these stomach pains started and I just needed to see if that would show erosion but after reading apparently erosion doesn't cause pain? Just weight gain? Who knows

Does anyone know if an upper GI series would show erosion of the band or not?

Yes like the above post says, don't let constipation go too long!! I had my surgery in December (around the 17th?) 2009 and hadn't taken a poo and went to the emergency room in January 2010 for an impaction! They did X-rays and the doctor told me I was, well, full of sh*t! Enemas every 4 hours is not fun! I still go many days without a bm but end up doing a laxative.

Never thought of that hmm!! Thank you!

I realize not everything is Lapband related but what no one is realizing is not everything is pregnancy related either. This has only been going on since I got the Lapband and before I got pregnant.

I had my gallbladder removed in 2005....and these pains have been going on off and on for a year and a half at least and I'm only 5 months pregnant they're just more frequent now... I requested all my records from my bariatric doctor and my last appointment where I said "my stomach hurts so bad sometimes I can't get out of bed, I double over in pain, it's tender to the touch, sometimes it's in my upper abdomen sometimes it's in my lower abdomen" evidently translated to "vague stomach pain" which is why I am switching doctors as we speak! Ridiculous!

I am in the process of getting in with a new doctor now and someone mentioned seminars? I be Er had to do a seminar

I had a complete unfill after finding out I was pregnant and I've been checked for hernias....why do I feel like I'm going to be on the next episode of mystery diagnosis?!

Does anyone regret getting the Lapband? Does anyone feel that the band was preached to you as a magic fix instead of a tool for weightloss? I was banded in December of 2009 and regret getting it done more than not. I quickly lost weight, 105 pounds in 4 months, I felt I was on top of the world. 2 fills later, after telling my surgeon it was too tight I gained it all back. I feel that it was brought into a more "this is the answer" light instead of a "this is another diet but with an extra tool" light. I realize gaining the weight back was my fault, but I do feel kind of cheated by not being fully told that this wasn't a magic fix. I've had complications ever since I got banded, and that, accompanied with a poor surgeon with horrible bedside manner (who wasn't like that before the surgery) I feel I'm a Lapband failure, however I am grateful that I do have this tool inside of me for the day that comes when I do decide and do have the willpower to diet if I get to keep the band after the major problems I'm having now. I am 20 weeks pregnant now and have lost 28 pounds since becoming pregnant. I don't want to be judged for the things I've said so please don't be harsh I just wanted to know if I was the only one who regrets having it done?