Can you always feel your band? Is it always uncomfortable?

[Summerband]

Hello all,

I realise I am in VERY early days with my band (post op 3) but I just realised I never asked a super simple question!

Do you guys who have had your band a while (a few months) still feel in inside you constantly?

I am assuming and very much hoping that the tightness I feel in the band area is due to post op swelling.

But it suddenly crossed my mind that maybe it always feels like this...forever!?? I do hope not.

So can you constantly feel your band?

 

[Julcsi]

Unfortunately, after 14 months I still do.
Not sure if the feeling is ever going to go away.
Have to live with it, I guess.

 

[NT1977]

I cannot feel mine at all!

 

[top_kat]

i do not feel the band, but I do feel the port and as I e loss weight the more I can feel it. It also has moved considerably so when I bend over I catches on my ribs, so I do have that reminder. But i don't feel pain from it or the band,

 

[Purple Sparkle]

Hi Summer

I have had mine for a month - I don't feel it during the day, but sometimes during the night and first thing in the morning I can feel a tightness where it is - but it soon wears off when I am up and about.

Justine x

 

[Summerband]

Thats all good to know. I was feeling really tight yesterday and worried that it would always feel like that as it is not nice. But even this morning I feel a lot better, so fingers crossed what I am feeling at the mo is part of the healing process.

Thanks for your feedback. xx

 

[top_kat]

There will be no real pattern to how tight it may or may not feel, one minute you will be able to eat a certain food, but even a few hours later may not be able to.

Yesterday afternoon I ate some prawns, come to have some at dinner and couldn't eat them. The tightness can vary and it is a great deal of trial and error, but you will soon learn to read your body and the tightness of the band

 

[Mia2013]

Hello all,

I realise I am in VERY early days with my band (post op 3) but I just realised I never asked a super simple question!

Do you guys who have had your band a while (a few months) still feel in inside you constantly?

I am assuming and very much hoping that the tightness I feel in the band area is due to post op swelling.

But it suddenly crossed my mind that maybe it always feels like this...forever!?? I do hope not.

So can you constantly feel your band?

I know what you mean. I too was wondering as this is uncomfortable and makes it difficult to move, I am still very sleepy and can't potter about for long....here's hoping we both feel better soon x ( same day op)

 

[moomoo1]

iv never felt mine but cat is right about restriction it comes and goes it can be dependant on how your feeling time of day and if your stressed or emotional , I always feel ltighter if im ill sometimes a fe days befor a cold it starts so I know one is comeing

 

[Oasiscalm]

I've had my band for just under six months now, and I can honestly say that any pain or discomfort I've experienced with the band has been self inflicted by sheer gluttony. If I overeat I tend to get pain around the port area and then lower stomach spasms, but I don't think I have ever really felt my band per se

A few weeks after surgery I did have an evening of immense pain and ended up in A&E, I was told it was due to the stitches in the muscles dissolving and the muscle rearranging itself.

I hope you are fortunate to have a trouble free journey with your band.

 

[Bookie]

A few weeks after surgery I did have an evening of immense pain and ended up in A&E, I was told it was due to the stitches in the muscles dissolving and the muscle rearranging itself.

Oooh, thanks for that, this may well explain why I was so bad yesterday!

Summerband I'm 1 month post-op and if you read my diary, you'll see I had a really hard time in the first few days post-op, due to a very narrow oesophagus apparently, but once the swelling had gone down, I couldn't feel my band at all, and even now, like Oasiscalm, it's not the band I can feel, it's the constriction if I get something stuck, I've had a problem since Tuesday where something got really, really stuck and I've had breastbone pain since, but I now think that's because of the combination of stuck and the stitching/muscle thing. So don't be daft like I have been, and don't try to eat before you can swallow!

 

[Summerband]

Thanks Bookie and Oasis, I will go look for your diary.

I am good, I tend to get tight either early morning before I have had a warm drink or late at night. During the day it feels ok now that I assume the swelling has gone down a fair bit. I am apprehensive about mushies on Saturday, but will go very very slow and carefully!

 

[Hollie22]

I am 1 day post-op and can feel and hear it when fluid goes down. I have a 10ml band with 4ml in it xx

 

[Summerband]

I remember that feeling!

 

[Hollie22]

It quid funny actually my boyfriend listens to it when it hits before the band and drains through lol doesn't bother me though

 

[RainbowSprinkles]

I feel mine when I bend over or if I press really hard on my tummy otherwise nox