Surgery tomorrow to reattach tubing to band!

[JennyC724 15]

My tubing apparently got seperated (I never realized it wasn't just one long piece!) and I have to have a FULL surgery tomorrow (meaning anesthesia, the whole deal) to reattach the tubing. I can't believe it. I'm so stressed and worried and miserable about it...

I was just wondering if anyone else had their tubing come apart???

[losingjusme 12]

best of luck today.

[Sue Magoo 71]

Jenny:

Hope all goes well. Soon you'll be able to have the band do some of the work.

Take care.

Sue

[betrthnever 107]

JennyC724, how did they find out it had come apart? Obviously you had no restriction, etc, but how many fills did it take before the Dr thought there was a problem?

[JennyC724 15]

I was going in for my first fill when it was discovered via fluroscopy (they do all fills that way at my practice) that the tubing ends were disconnected. I had never heard anything like it, but there was another surgery done the same day as mine, right after me, and she had the same thing!! Go figure! Thankfully recovery has been MUCH easier than with the band initially and I have lost 9 pounds this first week!! YAY!! Because I got a fill during the surgery, thank the gods of weight loss!! LOL

Interestingly enough, the tubing was poking my just under my ribcage on the right side, and when I told my doctor, he said it wasn't all the way over there but I knew it WAS, and it turns out that it WAS because it was seperated!!! It hurt at times, especially when I hunched over like when I was sitting in the floor with the kids!!!

I'm just SO HAPPY that it's OVER!!! :smile2:

[betrthnever 107]

Glad it worked out, Jenny. I had my first fill and of course didn't feel much restriction. Worried needlessly that there was something wrong even tho everything I've read says that the 1st fill doesn't do that much. But I know it's working 'cause every time I bend over after drinking/eating I burp like a mad women LOL!

[Greerdans 0]

Jenny -

Same thing just happened to me. I'm new to the board and was searching tubing and slipped band and found your post. My band is fine, but the tubing split in the middle causing me to have a lot of stomach pain the last week (apparently due to the pieces of tubing hanging in my abdomen). My band was originally placed is 1/06

I go in for surgery (again) on Friday and am also having my gall bladder out at the same time. They suspected that was the problem originally.

Let me know how your surgery goes. I'll be thinking of you.

Leslie

[streetmedic85 0]

Hi Jenny, I too have my tubing "come apart" My band was placed 09/2002, with three fills, with minimal problems, on the 15th of April, I was woke up by a burning pain just below my port, that lasted about 5 minutes, then went away, the Pain started when i got up the next morning, sharp/stinging pain felt in my left flank, groin, and around the port, that came and went, the more I moved around, the worse it was, but would then just go away. it took me a few days to realize it wasn't gas, and I had a X-ray tech friend of mine shoot a picture, and it was pretty obvious what the problem was, the tubing was "Disconnected" approx. three inches from the port, the tubing was sticking straight down into my lower abdomen. I finally got in to see my surgeon yesterday, he didn't seem too concerned by it all, even told me (SEVERAL) times that I shouldn't have had any pain, that it was a common problem, and the company that makes the band, has a "repair" kit. Right now, I'm waiting to see if my insurance company will pay for the operation, by telling them it is Laprascopic exploratory surgery for abdominal pain, (my surgeon kept telling me that he didn't want to be "Dishonest", he still dosen't believe me about the pain)and fix it with the repair kit which I will have to pay for out of my pocket, so we will see what happens, I wish you luck with yours.

I also thought it interesting that the Hospital/surgeon no longer does Bariatric Surgeries, (3years) and was real vague about why.