band erosion

Ima float in the pool and eat soggy cookies. Chlorinated cookies, even.




and THEN I'm gonna be really tan, too.

I swam with my sister in our pool the last two days, but Bailey refused to swim with us. That damn dog loves to swim. In fact she is a PITA to keep out of the pool and now when I want her to swim with us....she gets all stuck up and crap.

 revesion to the sleeve, what are your new issues. please do not wait so that they can get worse. always always listen to your own body. if i had done so i would hav e been all done with this
Do you belive it is because they did the sleeve right after removing the eroded band

my brother said I should have these procedures after the removal.try an EGD (a scope to look at inside of stomach) and possibly even an xray with dye to make sure the stomach has completely healed with no residual problems.

 I love how you write, thanks for the encougement. i just have so much fear..i cannot satnd fear.
the last five months i have  had to have two kindwy surgerys , was in the hospital with 220/180bp they did not diagnose why. my last bout was unforgettable pain in the left shoulder.once they ingected the cortosion i was fine. they said i had frozen shoulder.
i truley have no other sypmtons except weight gain and no restriction. i think i have only voimted 3 times since having the band . how did you get over the anger at the band and your surgeon

You've been through a lot.

I'm still getting over my anger towards my surgeon. He was downright nasty and cruel and that's not something that easy to forget. I talk about it a lot. Probably to the point of irritating people, but what's the point of a support forum if you're only going to support those WITHOUT problems, right?

Counseling helps, too. I actually felt as if I'd been assaulted after my lapbanding. The surgeon had 2 large men hold me down by the shoulders and he got really close to my face, saying, "I'm putting an NG tube, it's GONNA hurt, you're NOT gonna LIKE it. Deal with it." And then spit in my face while saying it. He used NO lubrication and ripped my nostril in the process. Oh, and then I got my period during all this. He noticed and yet just parked me in the hallway of the hospital all by myself, in shock, crying buckets and in horrible pain. When I say, "in shock,"  I don't mean that I was simply shocked. I was in actual shock... shaking, hyperventilating, in a ridiculous amount of pain.  I think I passed out for a few minutes from the pain. I don't remember the first week after my surgery, but for bits and pieces.

You need to talk about it because if you hold it all in, it causes a lot more stress.  Or at least, that's been my experience. I imagine there are a lot of people who do hold it in, thinking they're the only ones going through it. I know I felt that way when I was going through it.

First off what kind of Doctor never mind person could behave in that manner i hope you have reported him to the medical board. I am so sorry you were treated so disrespectfully. was this the doctor who did your first band or the one *****moved the band. Since erosion seems so rare how will I know i have the right doctor


the anger i feel is towards the person who was doing my fills. i would go in and tell her that something was not right. that i was gaining when i was eating less, she asked me about vomiting and i think i was just seen as the fat person who started to eat again.I kept on pointing to the middle between the breasts and said i feel no restriction here . I am sure that everyone has felt restriction there So untrue the lap-band had given me back a part of myself i never wanted to lose again. control i think i was just seen as the fat person who was eating again. i had gone from a 30/32 to a size 14/16. i wanted to get to a 10 but now i am back to a 20-24 depends. I HATE IT, if you see what i eat it makes no sense
Thank you for listening, i wish i had know about this web site earlier

Thanks, Summertime. My doctor was a downright nasty person... which I didn't know until AFTER I had complications, of course. BEFORE, he seemed OK.

You really need to be your own advocate when it comes to the band. There are SO many things that can go wrong that doctors don't even think of... and the CT scans and the scopes and tests often show that nothing is wrong, in spite of there being discomfort- pain-complications.

Take care, keep talking. It helps to know you're not alone in the fight! 

Nicci

My original band surgeon was very nice it was just that the tests that they perform don't really show the problems we experience until the damage has already been done. The tests we need them to do are probably too expensive and ins co don't want to pay out that kind of money.