Once again....the weird one

 I do have a question to see if anyone has experienced this before?  When I went in for my first fill I found out that I have a flipped upper portion of my stomach.  (long story short....My first fill is AFTER my lapband was reclipped shut.  It came open for a few years and so it is like I have a new lapband).  Ok, so under fluro, we discovered that the barium was collecting in the pouch like it should, passing the stoma, then collecting in another "pouch" behind the lapband.  The doctor told me that my stomach looked flipped, but has not really seen this before.  He is one of the best docs in the country from what I was told....and I'm thinking....if he hasn't seen it - how many people out there has experienced this????  I'm not sure if it is from my lapband not being right to start with or what.  

SO the question is.....I get stuck on EVERYTHING it seems like!  I mean, I eat slowly, I chew well, and eat correct portions, yet I still end up in doubled over, praying to God it passes up or down pain.  It dawned on me today that maybe this is from my stomach being flipped.  I know the pain is in the stoma area (the "Stuck" part), but I'm wondering if food passes until it can't collect in that second pouch any longer and creates a "stuck" incident?  I mean really.  I'm a month out from my revision/correction surgery, and first fill, yet I can't eat real food well yet.  

I just need thoughts....brainstorms......

I'm going to my doc on the 10th for another fill.  I'm going to talk to him seriously about the Sleeve.  SInce that will iliiminate the whole problem.  We were discussing it anyway....waiting on insurance to cover it.  I just feel quite alone with this issue right now.  I literally live on a island in the azores, without a bariatric doc here to ask.  So OH is my go-to.  THanks ya'll!
-Barb

I'm sorry but I've never heard of that happening. Are you saying that you now have 3 pouches, one above your band and two below it? If so, I'm not surprised that eating is so difficult and painful for you. I wouldn't get another fill - surely that would make your symptoms worse?

Good luck,

Jean

 I guess you can say that.  I have the pouch above the the lapband is suppose to provide.  Then I have another pouch below it formed by the flop over of the top of my stomach (like a dog ear) and then I have the stomach itself.  The doc wants to do the sleeve which is the procedure to fix the flop over stomach anyway.  I think they call it the cup and spill stomach, shelf stomach, hourglass stomach and there are a couple other terms for it.  I found one article on it.  The ligaments get weak that hold the top of the stomach up, and just allow the top of the stomach to fold over on itself.  It causes reflux and other problems.  I do have the problem of the gastric tissue growing in my esophogus (creating stomach acide where it doesn't belong)...so it all makes sense.  The correcting procedure is to cut the top of the stomach away.  I think it is called a fundoplexy.  So the sleeve sounds like the corrective procedure all the way around....since they cut way the stomach anyway.  I don't know.  It is very frustrating