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About three weeks ago I went to a doctor due to night cough and reflux. I had an upper GI done and the doc said my band slipped. He took all of the liquid out and told me to go on a liquid diet for a week then soft food. I did that. I went back and had another uper gi done. He stated that the band healed and to go to solid foods. He did not fill it and said to wait about two weeks. I was wondering with no liquid in the band can it slip or swell again or even erode??? If so, what do I look for? Please advise.  I know sometimes there is no pain with slips.

The reason he did not fill it yet is that it takes a while to get things healed back up. As for what can happen without fluid in your band I would say it will depend upon what is really happening inside. After some healing time and you start getting some fills you should keep careful track of what happens. If you get the reflux again, stuck episodes, etc. get back to him asap. If things go fine then great. Don't borrow trouble right now. Give it 6-8 weeks or what ever your surgeon says because when you get all inflamed inside it takes some time to heal. There are people  on this board who have had slips and done very well after healing time. Some have not. Just concentrate on you and let tomorrow take care of itself. Keep us posted, please.

Yes, a band without fluid in it can slip, because of vomiting, coughing, eating mistakes, failed sutures, an untreated hiatal hernia, and the position of the moon in the night sky.

Band erosion is a more complicated issue that you need to discuss with your surgeon. I haven't heard of night cough and reflux being symptoms of band erosion. Other symptoms include fever, back pain, complete loss of restriction, eating problems, pain, redness & swelling at the port site (from bacteria traveling along the tubing from the band site to the port site.

I had a band slip that was resolved with a complete unfill and 6 week rest period, and my band did not slip again after that, so I think that if your complete unfill resolved your band slip, a 2 week rest period before gradually re-filling may be all that's needed to get you back to normal, but you need to be aware that your esophagus and stomach are living tissue and affected by many factors not directly related to your band, such as hydration, medications, hormone fluctuations, stress, etc. etc. Your experience of restriction this time may not be the same as it was before, so you'll need to pay attention to your body's signals while at the same time not playing head games with yourself about whether this, that, or the other twinge presages the demise of your band.

Generally speaking, any symptom that's great enough to interfere with your daily functioning needs to be reported to your doctor. To my knowledge, no one here on OH is a bariatric medical professional, so we can't diagnose and treat your band issues. It's always OK to call your doctor with questions and concerns, but you won't make your stomach heal faster and you will make yourself even more anxious if you worry about complications during every waking hour.

Or to borrow grannymedic's words, don't go looking for trouble!

Right now all you can do is wait and see, some slips are worse than others, if your question is how bad do you think your slip is?.....The main thing to watch out for is HOW TIGHT YOUR BAND HAS BECOME AFTER YOUR BAND WAS EMPTIED. If you still have extreme restriction after your surgeon removed all the saline, then you need to be worried -- but sometimes this can be inflammation, but the inflammation should calm down in a few weeks, but if your surgeon removed all the saline and you feel absolutely NO restriction and don't have pain or much inflammation or vomiting, your chances are good for your band to be saved.

P..S. In most cases it can be helped by slowly and gradually filling the band each month after about 6 weeks of being empty. You don't want to go to fast with this, and for me, even when I started to refill my band again, I could never get back to the sweet spot for long periods of time,  without reflux and issues, I put up with this for nearly 6 years, which I wish others would have told me to not waste my time and just get my band surgically fixed instead of all that wasted money with unfills and refills. 

What you need to do now focus on is HOW THIS HAPPENED and how to prevent this in the future, my pouch dilation occurred from getting extremely too tight and traveling and I could not get back to my surgeon quick enough, if yours occurred from too much vomiting or being too tight you will to be very careful from now on.

Good luck

I feel no restriction and no reflux issues. Thank you all for the information.