I just got off the phone with the nurse. They want me to try stronger antacids before doing an endoscopy and all that sort of thing to see why I am having these problems.

She asked me "Didn't they tell you your GERD could become worse after banding?" and I said "No, they told me it would get better."

I thought the acid reflux woukld get better with weight loss.:think

I have a history of GERD and Barretts esophagus is not something I...

Saw the surgeon yesterday about the throbbing and squeezing in my band area and he said it would take time for my body to get used to it. In the mean time my esophagus is really having a hard time. It's painful. I hope this goes away soon. :cry

I woke up last night with pain where my band is, at the bottom of my esophagus. It feels like a throbbing-squeezing and it hurts. I had to get up and take liquid tylenol. I have to take the stuff every 5 hours. I wonder if this is normal for 9 days post op??

Are you supposed to be able to "feel" your band in there?

I went to my gyno today and told him of my banding. He was very supportive of the band. He was talking about the risks associated with the bypass. He was telling me he was just through with a surgery when one of the other surgeons asked him to assist with a bypass that just came into the ER. Part of his bowel had died. He said witjin 2 hours, that man would have died.

But he said what was even more serious is the state of the re-routing, they could not figure out how to get the bowel...

Well, that was rough. Unlike others I have seen posting their experiences on this site, I did not sail through it.
I am amazed and a little jealous of those people who were up and about with no problems.

I'm not feeling well right now, like I have the flu only with stab wounds. And yes, like some others I am wondering "what the hell did I do to myself?!!"

I am without pain meds as I don't react well to them, so I'm in a lot of pain right now.
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