gastrografin in your band?

msw2003 · June 25, 2008

Has anyone ever had gastrografin in their band vs saline?

I get my fills done locally vs driving 3 hours to my doctors office who did my surgery. My band is a 4cc band and has 4.25 cc's. I have restriction but not as much as i would like. the ARNP who does the fills suggested I put gastrografin in my band vs the saline as it gives a tighter band due to the heaviness of the Fluid. anyone else had this done?

Tess415 · June 25, 2008

I would go with the manufactures recommendations. If anything were to happen, I don't think you would have much luck in having them pay for a replacement.

I would be very leery of this idea! Gastrografin itself is pretty harmless if it gets into your abdomen if you were to have a leak, it dissolves in Water and it is the kind of contrast we give to patients to drink to do CT scans that may have perforated something because it much easier for them to clean out of the abdomen than the chalky white barium. Having said that, I don't know what effect it would have on the material, and integrity of the lap band.

Tess