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The Difficult time I had with my LAP-BAND®Hello there. We have just finished talking together on the phone. I am the woman from Canada from Vancouver, B.C. to be exact. I was describing the "hellish" time I had with my LAP-BAND®. I had complications with it from the minute I got it in. I woke up in hospital coughing all night and day, and could not stop. Since the staff at the hospital were unaware of what the surgery entailed there was no medical help for me, and my surgeon only came the next day to let me go home. The operation was so new to the hospital that even the dietician did not know what to make of it. She sent me home with a diet sheet with solid healthy foods, and my surgeon warned me that I should only drink liquids for 30 days. I followed the surgeon's regime. Actually I really did not have much choice in what I ate as I could only drink anyway. Nothing stayed down, and the coughing was getting quite marked. I could not sleep as I coughed all night. I kept coughing up fluid, but thankfully it was clear (I think). Within a few days I had to go to emergency as I could not swallow any liquids at all and was in danger of being dehydrated. I was put on a drip for liquids, etc. and released within two days. At least the coughing had stopped.
I then proceeded to try and live on liquids only which after 20 days I gave up on, and proceeded to eat soft foods only. That was okay and after a while I decided I had gone several months without getting my band tightened and should maybe get that done as my weight loss was not as good as it should have been.
Off I went to have more silicone put in the band and then the problems really began. From then on I started losing weight, but that was because nothing would stay down. I was vomitting everything up. I went back to the surgeon who told me I was eating too much. At this stage I was not keeping anything down and my weight loss would have pointed that out to any person. Off I went home with the directive to "eat half a cup only and chew well".
After a few months of this and a rather dramatic weight loss I was getting weak and unable to do anything so I went to the surgeon who sent me for an xray which came back as nothing wrong. I didn't know what to do at this stage. So I brought a new wardrobe for my lovely slim figure and chalked the pain up to progress.
A few weeks later I passed out at my swimming pool and knew something had to be done.
I saw my surgeon again and demanded that he take the band out. He realized that something might be wrong as I was quite adamant at this stage and to his credit he did have me admitted after that weekend and he removed the band. He did inform me afterwards that the band was quite distorted around my stomach as I had "lesions" growing around the band which had twisted the band around my stomach and nothing could get through. So all his prior comments that things would right themselves would never have come to pass.
I am truly thankful that I have that equipment out of my body, and just the other day a girlfriend who is obese said she was thinking of getting the LAP-BAND® as she remembered how good I looked with it. This is the same woman who came to visit me when I got it out and made me swear never to do that again. She is so desperate to lose weight that she would use something that she knew was danger to do it. I am writing this to let all women know that the LAP-BAND® may work for some, but I am certainly one of the people it did not work for.
After spending all that money I now have to fund raise (as there is no coverage within British Columbia for weight loss surgery) for the mini gastric bypass surgery and get the job done right. Wish me luck.
Sincerely Cherie |
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