Help!

[HaleyJ 4]

Can the lapband be to tight with food in the pocket? I got off track and I'm paying for it dearly...I'm not sure if this is the case or if I'm constipated! Please help!

[Skyvic 226]

I would talk to your doc if it doesn't go away in next 24 hours. Are Mayra sick will need you to come in as close to 7:00 as canyou getting liquid down?

[2muchfun 8,927]

More information please? Constipation and being stuck from a too tight band are two different issues?

tmf

[PattyGirl66 1,243]

Haley, we need more information. When was your surgery? as tomuchfun indicated these are both very different issues. Do you have any fills? when was your last fill? Have you just started on solids?

[HaleyJ 4]

I'm sorry I'm in panic mode...my surgery was 7-24 and I haven't had any issues until now...I ate a toasted bacon sandwich and apparently the bread wasn't toasted enough...I feel like it filled my pouch up and my stomach is on fire...been like this since 9 last night...I'm feeling faint, feverish, and just plain ill...

[2muchfun 8,927]

Sounds like a bug but can you drink fluids or eat Soup? Just trying to figure out if it's in your upper pouch or your stomach? Have you ever experienced a stuck episode? That's where you eat too big of a bite or don't chew properly and the food gets stuck on top of the band? You'll slime and feel a lot of discomfort.

If you can drink Water or down fluids, it's not a stuck episode and most likely is flu bug type illness. But, if it continues, you should call your doctor.

tmf

[HaleyJ 4]

So I called my brother/n/law/Dr and told on myself about my toasted bacon sandwich...apparently the bread wasn't toasted enough and turned very Gummy which stayed in the punch even though I didn't have any trouble getting it down....it just stayed stuck in my pouch and made my stomach on fire....I never slimmed but I went all night like this without wanting to bother anyone...I felt like I was dying...His simple solution was 1tbl 2tbl sppons of meat tenderizer and then a sprite...works wonders and helped me get all that gummy bread up....thanks so much for all of you and your considerate answers! I'm very sore today and will be back on liquids but this helped me get my head back on straight! God Bless each and everyone of u!

[2muchfun 8,927]

For many of us, any kind of flour product can cause a stuck episode. I do miss bread sometimes but it's just not worth the discomfort. A few times I've made a great band friendly dinner but cheated a bite or two of bread only to be stuck for 30 minutes while everyone ate and I spent the time in the bathroom sliming my bread back up.

You'd think I'd learn, and I am, but I'm a slow learner

tmf

[jarchuleta 20]

Ok I got band 12th this month. What is sliming

[HaleyJ 4]

Slimming is when u try to swallow some find of food and it tries to go down but it can't...your body makes a slim to try to help it go down and I always end up spitting the slim out on the couple of times it's happened to me...yeah I have to say I loved bread until this point but I'm definitely not ever taking this chance again

[jarchuleta 20]

Thank you do much...good to know....how long has it been since you had surgery?

[shoumansam 18]

Omg!! I was banded on sept 6,2012 so your telling me I can't ever eat bread again!!???¢

[lawismylife 41]

Omg!! I was banded on sept 6' date='2012 so your telling me I can't ever eat bread again!!ð¢[/quote']

I am banded almost 2 years and I can still have bread - even untoasted when together with meat. Everyone is different. The longer out you get you might be able to get down different things. In the first year I wouldn't recommend it. Good luck!

[shoumansam 18]

Thanks for the advise<3