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Weight Loss/Maintenance

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rox63

(9,464 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 08:05 AM Sep 2014

My lap-band had to be removed yesterday [View all]

I've been getting increasingly bad acid reflux in the last couple of months. It recently got bad enough that it was difficult to lie down to sleep at night. Also I had started vomiting more. I finally had enough, and went to the weight-management clinic I'd gone to before and after the surgery. It is associated with the hospital where the surgery was done. They sent me right over to the hospital for an upper-GI test. The results showed that the band had slipped down the stomach, and was causing a serious obstruction. Even though it was mid-afternoon by this time, they sent me down to the day-surgery unit to have the band removed. A couple of hours later, I was waking up from anesthesia after the band had been removed. I got home by cab at about 9:00 PM, since they don't let post-anesthesia, percocet-addled people drive themselves home.

So now I have no idea what to do next. Except that I need to get over to the hospital parking garage to get my car back.

How was your day?

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