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Hello all. I am on here looking for help or moral support. I am a stress eatter. I've found that out the hard way. I was banded on December 21st. Everything was going great. I had a port flip and that was fixed on the 14th of May. I'm trying to get into the mind set again that everything will be fine. I have a lot of stress going on in my life lately and I seem to turn to food for comfort even with the band on. Lately, for some reason, I've been throwing up food too. I could eat a cup of food but I still find myself throwing the food up. I guess I'm wondering how to get my mind to stop thinking like I did before I had the band put on and how to get myself to get away from the food for comfort.

That's a good suggestion but right now not a possibility. My family is moving so I am too. I'm having some trouble with this and apparently turn to food. I'm just looking for a way to not do that. I'd appriciate any other suggestions.

Hello. I am 4 months post op. Everything WAS going great! I had my first fill in Feburary. My doctor poked around on me for a good 15 minutes before decideing to wait a few days and do the fill under a portable x-ray machine. I went in, layed on the table, they positioned the x-ray where it needed to be, my doctor came in, numbed me, then found the spot right away. After my first fill was done, everything went fine. I went in March and decided I needed my 2nd fill. This time I had a doctor working under my doctor. He poked around for a half hour and couldn't find the spot he needed and it hurt. My doctor decided to do it, yet again, under a portable x-ray. This time, however, it wasn't so normal. When the x-ray was turned on, he asked the x-ray tech to do a lateral view. As soon as it turned on again, he knew it was upside down. Three or four of the stitches that are holding my port to my muscle broke. About 3 days after they discovered this, the last one broke. This was 3 weeks ago. I am waiting for my insurance company to ok the surgery to reflip the port. I am in a lot of pain right now. It feels like someone in jabbing me in the side and stomach with a knife from the inside. Has anybody had this happen? Does anybody know anything to take to help ease the pain?

I didn't feel mine flip but it's been flipped for almost a month. I don't know what's going on. Normally, like I said, it doesn't hurt all the time. The last 2 days I get shooting pains all the time. I know it's flipped but you're right, there might be something else going on too. Thanks!

Thank you very much. I've called my clinic and they keep telling me to take tylonal and stuff but that doesn't help. It wasn't until yesterday that it really started to hurt this bad. Normally it's uncomfortable and hurts on occation but not like this. All day yesterday it was sharp shooting pains. I'm hoping and praying my insurance company will ok this surgery and we can get it schedualed before too long.

My doctor's office told me that a fill would cost me $100 after my insurance company stopped paying for them.

Hello all! I am new to this site. I was banded December 21, 2009. I recieved my first fill on Feb. 10, 2010. I went in for my second fill today, March 10, 2010, but the doctor couldn't find the right spot. I'm excited to see the changes in myself!