lost 100+ pounds but

 lapband twisted and had to be fixed...since then fills are not working correctly....any suggestions?  anyone else have this?  dr. is aware and i am putting on little by little again...

please email me directly at petdaycare at aol dot com...

i need advice asap!

I am confused - -- do you mean that your port has fipped?

I don't know how your band can be twisted -- it is sutured in place

If you port has flipped --- it is a relatively easy procedure to do a port revision and put it back in place so you can begin to get fills again.

What does your surgeon say?

Like Kath, I am a bit confused. If your band has twisted, your surgeon must have failed to suture it in place. And if it is the port, fixing that is a simple operation which should have no effect on fills. You say it has been fixed. So have you asked your doc why the fills aren't working?

Kate

i am posting for my daughter...and yes, it was the port...and she has gone back for fills...this happened in december....but since then, the dr. can't seem to get it right in terms of how much to fill....she had a fill yesterday and today, there is little to no tightening and she has gained weight over the past few weeks....so clearly the band is not doing what it should be doing....

 So did the port get fixed already?
If so, she needed a complete unfill before.. and had to start from scratch with fills...
So to get back to good restriction, might take several... 

If she continues to follow the band rules as far as what to eat.  and how much, she should be fine.  
She should maybe also ask her doctor about fills with flouro .

It may well be the same as wjhen she first got her band - that it takes several fills to get the right level. It is hard, but she needs to get back into the mindset she had at the beginning. Her band wouldn't have given her much help back then until she got the right level of fill and until that happens, she's on her own!

All she can do is follow band rules. If she does that, she will be eating fewer calories than she uses and so she should lose - but it will be hard going until she has the band to help.

Kate