HELP, Please! I am so tired.

[NONNI 0]

I'm having a problem, and need advise.

When I try to sleep Fluid comes up so fast that either I choke or it comes out my nose. It's like "acid" reflux, it more like Water, but I can't sleep, and it only happens when I try to sleep.

I've asked my doctor and he said to wait 4 hours to go to bed after a meal. and I have. I am still having this problem, he also said that i could be too tight, but I have little restriction.

Has anyone else had this problem know what I could do to stop it???

Please help!

[Lorsbander 1]

Are you taking a med to reduce reflux and acid production? I take Pepcid twice a day.

If you are already taking a med for this, I'd demand my doctor to look into it further. You cannot be sleeping much, you poor thing!

[NONNI 0]

yeah I take an acid blocker twice a day!

I just don't know what else to do. I don't want then to take anything out of my band, I am 3 pounds away from wonderland!

[Sula 0]

Sounds like you are too tight...I have read other people with this symptom and that is what the end result was...they went in for a slight unfill.

[lizzy h 0]

1st I TOTALLY get your fear of being unfilled, I am living with that now. Ok about 3 months ago I started having the same symptoms....I was amazed at what was POURING out of my nose - and then there was waking up choking - its as if I needed to swallow in my sleep and forgot how......I'd never had reflux so I waited two weeks and finally called my PCP. I specifically asked if it could be related to my band and she wasted no time in saying no......She wrote a script for Pepcid - what she did not say is that it would take up to 2 months for the Pepcid to work. Just when it was getting better another symptom, that I had been ignoring, reared its ugly head - vomiting. This was more then just PBing it has become constant and immediate after I eat or drink anything. Needless to say the Pepcid pills I swallow come right back up too. At this point I am waiting for the orders for an upper GI and labs. I am dehydrated, irritable as all heck, sleep deprived and totally convince my band has slipped big time. The Morale of the Story ask for a Upper GI/Swallow test sooner then later.......AND UBER CONGRATS ON YOUR TREMENDOUS SUCCESS, don't worry about those three little lbs, for some of us that can be achieved through a 1/2 leg wax !

[NONNI 0]

LOL... Thanks Lizzy, for the advice. I think I'll call my doctor first thing in the morning.

Good luck to you! let me know the outcome of your results.

[DonHoll1 0]

Please do call your doctor. Hope it gets better. Donna

[Linds 0]

I have suffered with this for quite a while but know I am not over restricted from the amount I can eat. I take a strong ant-acid prescribed by my doctor and before I go to bed every night, I empty my pouch by coughing up (not vomiting or wretching) whatever Fluid is in there, and I sleep like a baby. If I don't do this then I gurgle and end up running for the loo as the reflux grips me.

It does sound like you may need only a very slight unfill if everything else fails. Good luck