7 Days Postop-Allergic Reaction

Being bed ridden leaves you with PLENTY of time on your hands to read, read & read some more. I don't really care about your insults. You're an evil devil of a person & I hereby rebuke you. There are plenty of people who are strong-minded enough to make up their own minds about having the band regardless of my little ole post. Have a blessed life and I pray that you're not as negative with people in your personal circle. I truly pray. 

Actually, I have just read all this again. I am not in the US and our system of health care is totally different. But surely this is crazy? Over here, I am sure you would have been re-admitted to hospital. If you can't keep any fluids down, this is an emrgency. It is simply cannot wait five days to see your surgeon. 

1. Anyone 7 days out from surgery who can't drink water would be given IV fluids in an ER in the US once it is determined the pt is dehydrated.

2. If the band doctor and staff won't see their immediate post op patient who can't drink anything, it's time to get a new doctor.

3. I agree the posts are a bit over the top, but just in case this is a real person with real problems, it's best to encourage them to seek medical care immediately.

I'm not sure what's going on here...seems odd.

Stephanie, that's my feeling too. If someone is in agony/despair, to be dsbelieved would be soul destroying. So I am prepared to believe this lady. But if her medical team are as relaxed about this as it appears, then either she needs a new doctor NOW or her symptons are rather less than described. 

1. Anyone 7 days out from surgery who can't drink water would be given IV fluids in an ER in the US once it is determined the pt is dehydrated.

2. If the band doctor and staff won't see their immediate post op patient who can't drink anything, it's time to get a new doctor.

3. I agree the posts are a bit over the top, but just in case this is a real person with real problems, it's best to encourage them to seek medical care immediately.

I'm not sure what's going on here...seems odd.

Just in case I'm real? LOL okay. Let me just say, when I was pregnant & couldn't keep ANYTHING down, I was admitted to my local ER a good dozen times and given fluids but there was nothing more that they could do about my nausea & vomiting because the person inside of my body rejected them (just like this band****rtainly couldn't be admitted every single day for the same reason for 9 whole months. I had to go home and tough it out until the pregnancy was over. At the end of that 9 months, I had lost 71 pounds!!! 71 pounds. They could not stop it. I was even told at the end of the pregnancy that my daughter saved my life by forcing me to lose all of that weight. However this time, there is no light of human life being born at the end of the tunnel which inspires me to endure this crap. Where my daughter was created inside of my body, the band was put inside of my body and CAN be removed. So THAT is what I look forward to. People who love their bands, GREAT. People who don't, GREAT. A person's choice is their own. The more information they have to help make their decision, the better.

My surgeon is 2 hours away and located at the most prestigious hospital in this entire state. Not only does he not have any sooner appointments, his 2 bariatric colleagues also do not & have their own postop & preop patients. I asked for a sooner appointment before being discharged & was denied because they simply were not available. It's pretty ridiculous to downplay someone else's symptoms simply because it's beyond certain human comprehension. Be even dumber for me to keep trying to convince someone who can't help me if I'm NOT A REAL PERSON but a ghost person allegedly here to discourage others from getting the band. Be for real. But I'm betting when it was that person experiencing something not so great, all they wanted was support. I don't down anyone here. I don't assume anyone is fake. I'm not here to deter anyone from getting the band. I don't insult anyone. I came to learn and share. Kate actually gave me hope that my band would turn around and settle inside of my body. It still has not. I would really appreciate if people would lay off of the negativity and try to be unbiased. Try being human. Try to save judgments & OFFER HELP to someone new to this forum. If I'm not real, why the HELL would I be laying here confined to my bed and post on this site after being beat up? Wouldn't I just move on & post elsewhere? Right. I'm here because the surgical staff recommended that I do this before my postop appointment. If it was recommended by the hospital, I have reason to trust the site. Not just any other site out there. So, here I am. 

KGG, no offense was intended.  Someone else called you a troll and put #3 in there to address their concerns about your validity, not my own.

The posts you've made do come across as those of someone in dire physical and emotional distress.  After 6 years on this forum, we've seen it all, including situations like your own, but never a reaction like yours where the doctor refuses treatment of an immediate postoperative patient.  

Your hyperemisis during pregnancy has nothing to do with your current situation.  I had this too, back in 1967 and in 1971 with both my kids.  Went from 141 at conception to 112 at 24 weeks.  Not relevant to the current situation.

Perhaps if you put your real experiences down, including the fact that you were given IV hydration, and leave out the extraneous details, you'll avoid alienating the very people trying to help you.  Your doctor/staff are a**es for refusing to treat you.

Just in case no one understands, I have been admitted 6 times already. At the end of each, I was discharged with instructions to follow up with my bariatric surgeon. I'm tired of hearing what I already am trying to do. But I know my local ER and have lots of experience with what they will and won't do. After all, I do still have an umbilical hernia that was misdiagnosed by this same ER for 2 years. There's no way that I'm going to let them cut on me when they have no bariatric surgeon on staff. No way in hell. So, I weigh my options. Keep going back to the ER to waste my time while they guess at what could be wrong instead of doing a catscan or SOMETHING, drive several hours away hoping that my surgeon will see me when they already said he can't or keep sipping on fluids at home until my postop appointment. I've opted to tough it out. My symptoms aren't over the top. People are just taking it that way. They're just simply bad. Unpleasant. Vomiting, chest pains & difficulty breathing. I've read a good 400 pages of posts in the lapband forum and I SWEAR I don't get why this is so hard for people to accept because I've read worse. Stephanie clearly had hers removed. For good reason, I'm sure. Being that I've only had my band in for 8 days, I have hope that my symptoms are curable with a removal and that this band will have caused minimal damage 30 days postop when I hopefully have it removed. 

I don't know - I've read this post a few times and I'm feeling it might be real.   That's my gut reaction.  Stranger things have happened.  Yes, I know this is her (his?) first post, but often people are too shy or have no self-esteem to share their journey - even with the anonymity of the internet.  They are then compelled to do so when things go south.

Additionally, I'd love to say all ER's are wonderful, but personally I've had some really crappy experiences with ER's.  They don't believe you, treat you as if you're a hypochondriac etc.  I'm not saying that's without some justification, but I believe MOST people who head to the ER have legitimate reasons and therefore should be treated as 'innocent until proven guilty'.

If this is true OP, you need to go back to the (a different?) ER and DEMAND something be done.  DEMAND them to contact your surgeon, DEMAND to be admitted, be the squeakiest wheel ever - this is your health and if, for some reason you're one of the rare ones that is having some kind of allergic reaction, or your surgeon did something wrong, you don't want to wait until this gets worse... it's your health and potentially your life.

All that said, please don't prove me wrong by being a troll and making all this up in a desperate and sad bid for attention.  I work hard at trying to maintain a belief that fundamentally most people are good.  So don't give me a reason to be disgusted ok?

Edited for typo.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. My local ER is crappy and I rarely care to visit them unless I absolutely have to. Recently I have had to and the only thing I walked out of there with is fluids, a recommendation to have the band removed and my suture coverings falling off. They are HORRIBLE. There is a really good reason why I chose the hospital located so far away from my home. It's because they are considered to be the best in the state. But ER's generally downplay every situation that walks through their doors unless the person is a senior citizen. 

Attention for what? I really really just don't get that. Who wants to be sick? Who wants that? I refused to even join this site when initially recommended by the hospital 2 years ago. It just wasn't for me. I didn't want to share with the world the reasons why I gained weight & sought WLS. I just didn't want to do that then. I WAS ashamed. I don't just jump into doing anything. I think about things. I thought about this procedure for a very long time. Last minute, I was told that my insurance started covering the sleeve procedure and was told that would be a better fit for me. So, I switched to the sleeve. But at the end of the day, I simply didn't have enough time to become comfortable with that procedure & went back to the band literally last minute. Out of fear. I was warned about what I should expect so when I started experiencing what I shouldn't have been expecting if I followed the instructions, I knew something was wrong. 8 days later, I stand by that. My body simply does not want this thing here. I should be on week 2 diet but I haven't conquered week 1 diet. On wednesday (the 26th/postop appointment), I will be able to post my surgeon's response to my condition. No need to over exaggerate anything. No need to downplay anything. I have plenty of gorgeous, loving, warm, caring people in my life who support me. I have no need to lie to strangers to get from them what I get at home being honest. If it weren't for this site, I'd have nothing to compare my symptoms to while waiting for my appointment. At the end of the day, this site helped me. Positive experiences and negative ones. But honest ones. That's what it's here for.

I'm no doctor, but none of this sounds like an ALLERGIC reaction. There are, however, any number of things it COULD be.

When I had MY band installed, my system wasn't happy with it and I was vomiting a lot. My surgeon kept me in the hospital for 4 days on IV fluids until the problem resolved. He also send me for an upper GI to insure that the band was placed fine. I was NOT allowed to go home until I could keep fluids down.

MY question is whether your surgeon put any fill in the band when it was installed. If he/she DID, it needs to be removed IMMEDIATELY, and any hospital worth its salt should have a bariatric surgeon who can take some of the fill out.

And if you've been to the ER "6 times in 6 days", either you need to go to a different ER or refuse to leave until your problems have been resolved one way or the other.