August 28, 2009 Band date!!

[Ginnyvinny 1]

I was banded yesterday, Aug. 28. I kept reading on here about different people's experiences, "It's a breeze...a piece of cake...it went so smoothly". I would describe my experience as brutal. One of the worst days of my life. They found a 5" hiatal hernia in my stomach which had to be repaired first. I was not allowed to drink Water for 20 hours. When I woke up, the first thing I said was "water". They said, "You can't have Water until you do the barium swallow and they won't do that for another 2-3 hours." I looked at the clock, it said 10:00 a.m. I thought "I can't make it until noon or 1:00 without an ice chip or sip of water." My mouth felt like cotton. I got very dizzy, light-headed over the next few hours. I was getting so dehydrated that I was looking forward to drinking the barium! They finally came for me at 2:00. I couldn't wait to get back to my room and drink some water, but they said, "No, we have to wait for the results." My sweet little preacher husband started yelling at the nurses around 2:30...3:00...3:30. I wasn't allowed to drink after 8:00 p.m. the night before. It was getting inhuman. In all of the yelling, I think he let a few bad words slip out of his mouth! The results came back at 4:00. I finally got to drink wonderful ice water. I also got a 3rd bag of intraveneous Fluid for my severe dehydration.

After the 3rd bag of Fluid, some morphine, & some sleep, I felt wonderful around 2:00 a.m. I am now home & everything is fine. I don't know how people who get this procedure as day-surgery cope. It took my body 24 hours to settle down.

[lacielucy 0]

I was banded around 1pm Aug 28 09. Sorry to here it was so bad. I also had a haital hernia but im not sure how big it was. I must of not been too bad, b/c as soon as I came from the recovery room to my room I got ice chips and I went home the same day.

[kch3272 0]

Ditto to Lacey's post. I had no trouble at all. I was banded on Aug 28 at 7am and went home later that afternoon. I went back to work yesterday. I'm so sorry to hear of your ordeal. I hope you are doing better now!!