Band Slipped? Leak? I dunno.

[KristyLynn 0]

Hello guys, I haven't been here in the longest time.

I'm worried about my band and my weight gain. A few months ago I got a fill and I felt the effect of it the next day, while eating. Tighter, nice. Since then, I've only felt it in the mornings once in a while and I've been eating truckloads of food. I've not maintained my diet and I have gained 20 lbs in the last 3 months. I don't feel like I have any restriction and I eat as much as I did before the surgery (almost). This is HORRRIBBLLLE. I feel so extremely guilty and depressed, but I know that I need to snap out of it in order to get myself out of this hole.

My question is: Can there be something wrong with my band? I've never had the "full in the esophagus" feeling. The least amount that I've ever eaten with my band was 3 string cheeses with meat and an apple, which is a good amount. Now I eat bigger portions and I am hungry all the time. *Adult Sentence will follow*...My husband and I do have sex a lot and he folds me into positions that hurt my band area and we re-adjust. But it often feels like a dull pain over there when I just breathe. Kinda like it's a mass of dull-gas that never goes away. Plus, no restriction and I've been banded for a year and a half now, I think. But it feels like I've done nothing but gone downhill after my last fill.

I must have anywhere between 4-5/6 ccs in a Realize Band. Last fill was 1.5 cc.

I've done a horrible job lately, I know this. Yeah, it would be nice if I had the band to blame. But maybe I just want to get opinions on whether or not I am crazy for thinking something might be wrong. I thought slippage because..something must be wrong. But I don't get sick... Leakage, maybe? Probably sounds like the most possible, right?

My dr. referred me for an Xray, so I am waiting to be called in for one, some day.:biggrin:

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First I want to say to you congratulations on how much weight that you have lost already. It slows down and gets a lot harder once you get around that first 100 pounds. (I speak from experience). It is very easy to eat too much and then we stretch our pouches. That is probably what has happened. I have done that so many times and it is really hard to shrink it back. But you can shrink it back. There is something called the pouch test diet, or the seven day pouch test, or something like that. You can google it and it will give you the whole diet to follow. I've done it and have had good luck shrinking my pouch. But it is easy to backslide too. What helped(?) me was I was really sick recently and had to go on some weird antibiotic. It made me so nauseas. I thought I was going to puke. This lasted for seven or eight days. When I got off the antibiotic the nausea went away but I realized that my pouch was really tight again. Up til then I had been eating waaaay too much food and was afraid what was the matter with me. So if you have pain or other symptoms that seem suspicious, call your doctor. But maybe just try shrinking your pouch. You have nothing to lose (except weight! haha! sorry!) Let me know what happens.

Hello guys, I haven't been here in the longest time. :sad:

I'm worried about my band and my weight gain. A few months ago I got a fill and I felt the effect of it the next day, while eating. Tighter, nice. Since then, I've only felt it in the mornings once in a while and I've been eating truckloads of food. I've not maintained my diet and I have gained 20 lbs in the last 3 months. I don't feel like I have any restriction and I eat as much as I did before the surgery (almost). This is HORRRIBBLLLE. I feel so extremely guilty and depressed, but I know that I need to snap out of it in order to get myself out of this hole.

My question is: Can there be something wrong with my band? I've never had the "full in the esophagus" feeling. The least amount that I've ever eaten with my band was 3 string cheeses with meat and an apple, which is a good amount. Now I eat bigger portions and I am hungry all the time. *Adult Sentence will follow*...My husband and I do have sex a lot and he folds me into positions that hurt my band area and we re-adjust. But it often feels like a dull pain over there when I just breathe. Kinda like it's a mass of dull-gas that never goes away. Plus, no restriction and I've been banded for a year and a half now, I think. But it feels like I've done nothing but gone downhill after my last fill.

I must have anywhere between 4-5/6 ccs in a Realize Band. Last fill was 1.5 cc.

I've done a horrible job lately, I know this. Yeah, it would be nice if I had the band to blame. But maybe I just want to get opinions on whether or not I am crazy for thinking something might be wrong. I thought slippage because..something must be wrong. But I don't get sick... Leakage, maybe? Probably sounds like the most possible, right?

My dr. referred me for an Xray, so I am waiting to be called in for one, some day.:)