Unhooked band

[Dee99 10]

Due to difficulties after surgery, they had to go in and 'unhook' my band. Has anyone else had to experience this?

I'm discouraged because I am on puree foods but I am hungry all the time. I have to wait two months before they will go back in and hook it back up.

[2muchfun 8,927]

Why did they have to unhook your band?

[jbandster 37]

I'm wondering the same thing. What were the difficulties?

[Banderina 69]

I never heard about this happening..tell us more

[balbuquerque 85]

Me personally been having a very slow recovery because of nerve damage during surgery. been in a lot of pain ever since 18 days post op. I decided right away that if anything goes wrong I don't want them going in to ''fix'' anything, just take it out. And it has nothing to do with discouragement, its just a decision that I made. I feel that all of us have shown tremendous amount of courage by just giving it a try, and having the surgery in the first place. However that doesn't mean that we are tide to it. Good luck with your recovery and with whatever you decide.

[Dee99 10]

After surgery I had so much swelling that nothing would pass through. After three days of continually throwing up and severe pain, they decided to go back in and unhook it.

I don't want them to remove it as it cost me ALOT of money and I can't see just throwing that away. I just wish I didn't have to wait 2 months to begin this journey the way I am suppose to. I'm not looking forward to being put under either cause after the 2nd surgery to unhook it I ended up in ICU after aspirating into my lungs while they were putting me out from the continual vomiting.

I was just curious if anyone else had to have theirs unhooked and how they dealt with the hunger, etc.or if they still had some restriction.