Around 1 o'clock yesterday I decided to eat some soybeans in between breakfast and lunch. I was feeling hungry but it was not time to eat lunch just yet. I was really excited because I ate half of one serving which was only about 1/8 of a cup and felt really satisfied. About 10-15 minutes after I had ate them, I started feeling weird. I didn't have any painful feelings, it was just severe discomfort. Immediately I thought that I had perhaps ate too fast and so I was ready to endure the discomfort for the next hour.
After one hour I still felt the same. I kept having to spit because it was like there was not enough room in my stomach for me to even swallow it! Then I kept throwing up. My stomach kept creating that "slim" to try and help through whatever was stuck but of course that was not helping because it was creating less and less room in my stomach. No word of a lie this went on for 6 hours!
Finally around 6pm I called Lahey Clinic to make sure that if I went there, there would be someone to help. They assured me there was a doctor on call. So I went to the ER at Lahey, checked in and it took about 2.5hours until someone could see me. I spent almost all that time waiting in the bathroom spitting and trying to throw up. I felt so sick. I felt like I had a golf ball stuck in my throat.
Finally this man came out, come to find out he was my surgeons Sr. Surgical Resident. He was so nice. He didn't seem very confident in himself of being able to find my port though but at that point I didn't care how many time he had to poke me I just wanted it out! He found my port very quickly and extracted 6cc's of saline and left 1cc in. I am not kidding when I say that I had immediate relief! The doctor almost didn't believe me. He said "are you serious?" and when I said "oh yes" he said "well that was gratifying!" That made me giggle.
So then he took me for an xray to make sure the band was still in the right spot. Since I had been throwing up so much you just don't know. The xrays came back and he said everything looked perfect. He sent me home and now I just have to call Corinne (my nurse practitioner) on Monday and let her know what happened. In a way I am kind of happy I had almost all the fluid taken out because I feel I might have been to aggressive with the fills thinking "the faster the better" so I would much prefer to go back and start filling up much more slowly now.
Sigh...so that's it....I am on liquids today and softs tomorrow. Thanks for listening!
After one hour I still felt the same. I kept having to spit because it was like there was not enough room in my stomach for me to even swallow it! Then I kept throwing up. My stomach kept creating that "slim" to try and help through whatever was stuck but of course that was not helping because it was creating less and less room in my stomach. No word of a lie this went on for 6 hours!
Finally around 6pm I called Lahey Clinic to make sure that if I went there, there would be someone to help. They assured me there was a doctor on call. So I went to the ER at Lahey, checked in and it took about 2.5hours until someone could see me. I spent almost all that time waiting in the bathroom spitting and trying to throw up. I felt so sick. I felt like I had a golf ball stuck in my throat.
Finally this man came out, come to find out he was my surgeons Sr. Surgical Resident. He was so nice. He didn't seem very confident in himself of being able to find my port though but at that point I didn't care how many time he had to poke me I just wanted it out! He found my port very quickly and extracted 6cc's of saline and left 1cc in. I am not kidding when I say that I had immediate relief! The doctor almost didn't believe me. He said "are you serious?" and when I said "oh yes" he said "well that was gratifying!" That made me giggle.
So then he took me for an xray to make sure the band was still in the right spot. Since I had been throwing up so much you just don't know. The xrays came back and he said everything looked perfect. He sent me home and now I just have to call Corinne (my nurse practitioner) on Monday and let her know what happened. In a way I am kind of happy I had almost all the fluid taken out because I feel I might have been to aggressive with the fills thinking "the faster the better" so I would much prefer to go back and start filling up much more slowly now.
Sigh...so that's it....I am on liquids today and softs tomorrow. Thanks for listening!
10 comments:
Im so sorry you had to go through that! That sounds terrible. I just got my band two days ago so I havent experienced any of those things yet. But Im glad the doctor relieved you and it made everything better!
That is something I am very afraid of. I have never had any PBing or Sliming, but I am afraid it will come. I'm sorry it took you 8 hours to get relief! I asked the nurse last fill if I got stuck and couldn't swallow, could I still get air! I'm a little paranoid about that! Glad you are feeling better, and take it easy!
How aggravating to have to wait that long to get relief!
Hopefully it will be the one and only time you need to go that route.
Glad to hear you're doing better. Also, this was a great reminder for me. I haven't even been banded and I already can't wait to get filled up. After reading this, I think I'll take the slow and steady approach to fills.
I can't imagine you had to wait that long. How horrible that must have been for you. At least you did the right thing and sought help! I've done my fills very slowly - and reading your experience makes me feel a little better about that even though my weight loss has been slow. glad you hear you're much better!
Oh Brianne, that must have been terrible for you. I had a similar thing happen to me once but I threw up when the gag reflex hit and after that I felt better for a few minutes and then my esophagus swelled up and I felt like I was being strangled. That went on for about a week until the swelling went down. I couldn't eat anything but soup for that week. I have been unfilled for the last 5 months and I go back next week to get my first fill again. I am hoping this time I take it easier on myself and eat slowly and take small bites. It's so hard to change a lifetime of eating habits isn't it? Hope you have no lasting effects of your ordeal.
Poor you, what a horrible experience to go through, Brianna.
Clever girl though for recognising you actually had something stuck - I've read of people going on for days before they twigged and finally sought help: they too had immediate relief.
You know, I remember when I first went to the seminar before I was banded. My Doc said he errs on the side of caution and only does the fills slowly: I was like.. what the?? Oh bugger.. His reasoning was that he had seen too many people just like you get stuck and end up in emergency and now he goes slow its so much rarer. I'm grateful for that now. To eat slow and chew well takes heaps of practice and if they fill you up so suddenly with quite a bit I don't think our minds catch up as quick and it would be easier to forget.
I'm glad you feel better now :)
That sounds like a horrible experience, but I am so glad you took care of it right away, and that you are feeling better!
Oh dear! That sounds like a harrowing ordeal. I am glad that the doctor was able to help so quickly. It's such an awful feeling when something gets stuck- it's so hard not to panic!
So sorry to hear what happened, but at least you went to the hospital and didn't wait days and days. Take care!
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