port stretched over the years-mean doctor too

I am so sorry that you have had so many health issues and I am not doubting your experience.  What I do know is that everyone says that Dr. Cirangle is an excellent surgeon.  My only experience with him was kind of brief yet not.  I was curious about his VSG post-doc int ructions.  I called his office - his staff was very nice to me and he called me back no problems answering questions and sharing knowledge.  I have a great surgeon and appreciated Dr. C.'s input.

It could be that he is frustrated because you seem  ignorant about your own personal medical knowledge.  You've had the band for what - 5 years right?  Why would you say that your port stretched - really, what does that mean?  There is no way that Dr. Cirangle gave you that information and if he gave it to me, I would question it.  "Dr. C. said it felt in place" wow, that is certainly not diagnostic.  It would be like a human having X-ray eyes.  You seem like you have had a very traumatic personal history being declared disabled (it takes a lot to qualify for SSA/I)and being home bound.  I would be sensitive and hysterical too with so many tragic incidents.

Yes hun, you do need  upper GI's periodically!  Tell Dr. Cirangle how you feel before you leave for some less competent doc.

All Best and much healing to you.

 I may have been a bit loose/sloppy with my languagewhen I explained what he cautioned. When he told me 'it felt in place' that means it was where it should be as in not prolapsed. He said  it felt 'right where it should be and he added what symptoms I would have if it were to prolapse.
That part had nothing to do with the possibility I may have stretched my tummy and he did nt believe that my 12 pound weight gain was from the rough 2yrs I had.
I think perhaps my being very firm that I am not reacting from a place of mental fragility is being read as 'hysterical' as you put it. I have been on disability long enough  now and have accepted things and processed them to the point where I live in the moment and take things day by day. I have learned to know my limits physically and mentally and having a Doctor bark at me to the point of tears is unacceptable. I do not deny I have 'issues' with being made to feel like I am an uncontrolable pig because I admitted to him I ate some ice cream or mashed potatoes on occasion,not frequently! I don't think he is an incompetant surgeon I think he has  very bad bedside manner and he chose to give me a fill even after I asked if it was medically sound IF my stomach was show to be stretched. I don't now if my language was clear enough what happened. It seems i have insulted some Demi God though by the reaction . It is funny how Doctors almost always praised  like some used to treat Priests, like they can do no wrong. Doctors can be rude and freak people out with brashness and a tweaked apperance -for all I know he may have had low blood sugar and just had a fight with his wife or husband before he saw me.Maybe he had the flu and felt ill. However, when I had personal baggage when I was a  Nurse, I left it at the door, if it made me incapable of treating my Patients with proper bedside manner then I called in sick. I have no issues that he told me to get an upper GI series but I did not need a lecture about how he has an overhead and is not running a charity when I joked that I would have him remove the 375$ I just put in and pay again to have it put in..? Maybe it is a class issue which is common with people on Medicare, to be treated less than a person with better coverage, that is a well known fact. I would not have gone back to him had he been cruel to me the first time around.He was pleasant and very accomodatng the first two times. That is why it hurt, I am human, It is not hysteria when you have to defend yourself from a person who should be compassionate about where you are in your weight loss journey and understand that I(maybe most of us) are afraid that we end up in our old bodies. 

 oh and one more thing I am not ignorant of anything regarding my health it is my fibro fog -I have difficulty with using English when I am in a fog. It also attacks the memory for the proper words and you end up using a facsimile that makes sense in my head but not that of others and for that I apologize, I have edited the first page a bit so it is clearer, hard to believe I was an RN and minored in psychology and now I can hardly string sentences together and also tend to go back to using spanish! I apologize for things being a bit unclear that part is medical.