Band Erosion?

Dunatl · September 20, 2006

Does anyone know the typical symtoms related to Band Erosion?

donali · September 20, 2006

Many times there are no symptoms. Being asymptomatic does not guarantee there is no erosion.

When there are symptoms, these are the most common ones:

1. loss of restriction

2. reflux

3. stomach pain

4. port infection

Unfortunately, the above are also common symptoms of lesser problems. Probably the most telling for erosion would be #4 - but as a result of erosion, that would happen only after the bladder of the band had been eaten through with stomach acid, and the bacteria traveled up the tube to the port where it causes infection.

Sometimes the person just feels "different."

I had what felt like an intense gallbladder attack one day - I still don't know if my erosion had anything to do with that. But other than that one episode (my erosion was diagnosed the next week, and the band was removed a couple weeks after that) I had no symptoms. I still had good restriction and felt good.