Might be dehydrated but still have tears-LONG

Hi everyone,

   I am not usually one to cry or complain here, but now is my time I am afraid. I think I am having big troubles. Reflecting back, it actually started when I went to Charlotte to the craft fair the 3rd weekend in Oct.  Mom and I stopped at K & W and I was unable to eat my potato soup because It was too tight, but later that night I ate the house down. Since then, progressing to now, I am virtually unable to eat without hurting between the boob area, or actually below it. So I skip because it hurts when I do. Yeah, I know, NOT good, but what can I do?  I drink hot tea and that's about the ONLY thing, or maybe cocoa, that goes down. Tonight I had to take a pill (fiorcett) for my head which is KILLING me. I halved and it went OK, thank goodness. Before dinner I drank 2 swallows of room temp. water and up it came. After things come up, instant relief. I tried to eat some chicken and it hurt, along with 2 small mouthfuls of the rice and soup glob and it hurt also. My son and DH went to bed and I stood in the bathroom and cried because my chest area hurt and I'm kind of scared. So at least I have tears.  My urine is dark yellow, WHEN I do pee. I peed 5 times since 5 am and it is 11:30 pm now and I will go before I sleep.  I have my old friend mandarin hot tea here next to me, again. Even as I lay here something hurts.
     I put a call in to the DR. and left a message. that was at 10:30 am.  She did not call bac****ill 1:00 pm, when I was in the bathroom and I missed it!  She said they were closing and she will try me Monday. Guess I have no choice now but to wait it out.  I'm hoping they will let me go for whatever test here in town if needed. That 5 hour drive is no fun and I would like to try to avoid it if at all possible. I hope they will not wantto send me to the hospital there......I still owe them and am afraid they will say, sorry, but you have to pay off your balance first, or something like that. I really don't want to tell the Dr. this. I hope he dosen't think its something big. Maybe just let some saline out. 
     I have been sooooooo exhausted this week and started on another migraine earlier today. Right now its underlaying but I know it's hiding. 
     I'm sorry for taking up so much space here, I guess I just need to air my laundry and maybe someone can relate. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Thanks for reading.

Love, Nancy 

water input Thursday: not even 30 oz.
water input Friday: 38 oz

Hi Nancy, I'm so sorry you are having these problems and you can vent anytime as you know I do more than my share on here. But I can relate to how your feeling and I have the RNY not Lapband, I started having the same type of pain about 3 weeks ago and I thought I had a pill stuck and the hurting in the chest was so bad and it hurt in my back as well and nothing helped for about 45 minutes until it let up, so I did good for a few days and I was still on full liquids then and then toward the end of the following week I started having the same pain and throwing up and on the third day I went to the ER and only thing they really did was do the leak test on me and when it was fine they told me they thought I had acid reflux well guess what it was still hurting two days later and I was back in the ER which was last Monday a week ago and my surgeon met me there and the next day they did and Endoscopy and found I had a stricture and he stretched it. Well I did good for about 4 days and was still having full liquids and they wanted me to try and start soft/puree foods and that's when the pain and throwing up started again first with a soft boiled egg that I mashed up and then the next day with some salmon and so on and I went to the doctor on Wednesday of this week and they gave me Zofran to take for nausea and yesterday I still threw up and today I've felt like it but haven't. Anyway now I can't get my protein or water in just like you can't and everything makes me sick so I really don't have any advice for you since I'm back to having the pain but I would tell them to send you for an Endoscopy. I hope you feel better real soon and don't wait out the weekend to get it checked out if you have to go to the ER and demand they check it out. I'm going back to the doctor next Wednesday and if I still don't have any relieve I'm going to be on their case to be finding out what is wrong with me. Take care and keep me informed.

Nancy Noodle,

Hey girl...  I'm sorry you're not feeling good and I really hope you get some relief soon!!!!  Give me a call if I can do ANYTHING for you, or if ya just want to vent.  I thought maybe the chicken soup would help - ugh!  Sounds like you are dehydrated, like I said before just sip sip sip as much water as you can.  If you don't get the protein in at least you'll get some water down - heat it up if you need to.  I'm surprized you got the pill down but I'm glad you did!  No help from this RNY'er sorry girl!!!!  But lots of hugs for sure!



Sheryl

Nancy.. im so sorry that u are feeling the way that u are. You are such a sweet person u dont deserve to be sad or in pain. :(   Does your doctor have an after hours/weekend answering service? if ur in that much pain maybe u can paige him and see if they can recommend anything.  I dont have the lapband.. but when i was researching it and hearing what other people  had to say it sounds like u are overfilled.  when i would read post on that lapbandtalk website i told u about i would see alot of people talk about that.                   i hope u figure it out .. ill be praying for u!

Unfortunately, I had to delete this post due to privacy concerns.

Nancy,
I am glad you shared this with us.
If I lived closer I would come get you myself and say we are going to the hospital.
No questions asked we are going.
Please for the love of God do not wait till Monday!!!!
Go find out what is going on.
Coulkd you call Suzanne?
Maybe she could go with you.
If you could make it up this far I will take you to UNC myself.
As far as the money you owe dont worry about it the accounting handles that.
                                        Annie

Hi Nancy,

Honey, I'm so sorry to hear that you have been and are struggling so. I can't add anything to what Shelli had to say, with the exception that if you can't get enough fluids in, you may need to go to the ER. It's nothing to mess around with. Know that you are being thought of and cared about.

Keep sipping,

Barb

Oh, Nancy, I could tell things weren't good when we talked on Tuesday.  Do all you can to get liquid in!!  Warm, hot, whatever!  If you can't get any in at all, call your doc and speak to the doc on call.  Unfortunately, ER docs don't usually know what to do with/for band patients, but they may at least get you rehydrated!  Can you crush your migraine meds?  Or get some in liquid form?

In my very unprofessional opinion it sounds like a slip.  At the very least, too tight.  I have heard of people getting tighter a week or so after a fill, how long since your last one?  Also, I know if you lose a lot of weight, your band can loosen, can it also tighten if we gain a little?

Please keep us posted!  If you need a ride ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, you call!!!   I don't know what your DH's work schedule is like.  But being retired I am very flexible!  I can drive you, wait with you (I'll get a hotel if it's overnight somewhere) and bring you home. Us bandsters have to stick together! 

Thanks all, you make me cry being so nice.  I tried eating a pudding ,vanilla before bed because I was hungry and threw it up. I HAD to get my antidepressant in before bed. (if I don't, I get a migraine, hear sounds and become disorienated) (sp but I really don't care),anyway, I took half, that at least was better than none, with the least amount of water for it to go down, and I thought it did but I remember refluxing it during the night for awhile untill I propped myself up.  This morning, well, afternoon now, LOL (good morning lazy butt me) I have my headache starting so I know I have to get that other half of pill in somehow soon. My son just came in and told me "I have a great idea for supper- chicken cordon bleu" and I could have laughed if it wasn't so sad. I am going to sip on hot tea all day and give the dr. on call a call and see what I should do.  I live 5 hours away from him and this hospital is not known to be great and I'm really afraid of them not knowing how to treat me properly with this band! I would be afraid they would do something wrong to damage it.

Nancy

carolyn, I had my fill on oct. 2, and was o****ill about the 25th, the weekend of the craft fair when I had trouble eating but eventually did.  Yes, I'm worried that I have a slip or a stricture, but know that our hospital here probably would know what to do or how to do it properly. I did manage to eat my food later that night after the meeting but it seems like forever I've been like that.

Nancy