Lapband removal surgery next month

After 4 long years of left arm pain, no restriction, gagging, horrible air in stomach, sleepless nights due to heartburn this band is coming out!!!

oh and let's not forget the new issue, Esophageal dysmotility!

Congratulations on band removal. It was the happiest day of my life the day I got that damned thing taken out.

I'm sorry you have had a similar experience. I hope you feel MUCH better after band removal!

Good for you!!  I have struggled too for 4 1/2 ys. and mine is coming out Wednesdy, June 15th!!  Can't wait, can't wait.....crap band..........that is what  called it!!!!  Hang in there, your's will be gone soon too!  -Holly

I'm right there with ya!  My comes out July 11th. That will be one happy day!
Good for you!

Oh, I can't wait!

Thanks for the well wishes guys!

Congratulations! Guess what? After 7 long year with not 1 but 2 awful bands, I am going in for surgery this Friday for a revision to a sleeve! I can hardly wait to get this thing out of me and move on with what my surgeon says about the sleeve, " a natural lapband providing restriction not obstruction".

7 longs years of my life almost totally wasted. Only through years of pain and vomiting have I managed to keep off 50 of my 125 I need to lose.

Best of luck!

By the way, my left arm has hurt horribly also many days in addition to my left shoulder. Some days it was so bad I was reaching for prescription pain meds! Where on your left arm did it hurt? Mine was about 2 - 3 inches down from the outer tip of my shoulder bone. A lot of days I tried to attribute it to my tension in my neck because I've had years of neck and shoulder type tension headaches. I was sort of thinking I might be having some nerve damage in my neck that was running down my arm, but your comment sort of makes me think it is the band. I know the left shoulder pain was from my band because it would always happen just after I ate.

I had that damned left shoulder pain the whole time I was banded- morning, noon and night. It never stopped. I was put on morphine, Fentanyl patches (both did nothing to help) and had corticosteroid injections into my shoulder joint, even though I insisted the pain wasn't orthopedic in nature. No one would believe me because there wasn't enough known about how the lapband affects the diaphragmatic nerves back then. I, too, had 2 bands; multiple corrective surgeries and chronic pain with the band.

NOW I see people barreling in to get lapbanding done and I want to shake them because we know SO much more about the complications. It's pure madness and I don't get it at all.

I hope your sleeve treats you MUCH better!!!

Good Luck!! I too had a revision from band to RNY 4 wks ago and it is sooooo much better for me!! I can drink and eat my mushies without gettng "stuck"!!!  Kicking myself for not doing RNY back in 2008 when I had my band! Ugh!
take care.