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I absolutely am sick of being sick. I would avoid it at all costs, the acid is permanently trashing your teeth plus hurting your throat. I'm no expert but I'd say you'd crossed the dangerous line into anorexic territory. It's not good to be a bag of bones & vomiting. Part of the WLS process is...

OMG. Yes you need help quickly. It's not good to be that thin. You are hurting your immediate and long term health plus damaging your teeth with all that vomiting. My opinion is to immediately stop eating solid food as its only coming back up. I virtually live on hot milk/latte. You can get...

Think long and hard about a revision. Your band has and will still be causing scarring on your stomach that could make revision surgery more complicated. But you have to do something and soon. That is not a life. Personally and in my life I think it's a daft idea that you can do this alone...

Yep a stricture. Mine is 1-2mm. Milk backs up on me. Good news that you've got a firm diagnosis and a treatment plan. Mega jealous. I'm at a brick wall.

My surgeon came to see me after two of them to tell me, I was still quite off with the fairies on both occasions, and he did have to repeat some of the conversation the next time I saw him. But I could feel it. On the second stretch I drank in the way home a litre of orange juice and a litre of...

Thanks Emma-Louise. I can't just yet say I regret my bypass as my reason for having it was to claw back some time on ignoring diabetes. But i don't have a quality of life. Everything I value and enjoyed is gone. I quite literally have nothing to live for now.

I forgot to mention that I have daily nausea and vomiting. Some days it's still so bad I can't get out of bed. These are all symptoms of a stricture. Good luck tomorrow. I can't recommend enough being sedated for the procedure. Let us know how you get on.

Tried all of the team, PALS, secretary etc. I even emailed my surgeon on his private email yesterday! He forwarded to someone else and I've not heard back. I haven't been feeding for 19 days now, and malnutrition does mess with your mind eventually but I've had the usual suspects infused...

I've had a couple of stretches done, it won't make you gain weight or increase your appetite. It will just allow the food that you do eat to go through like it used to due to the stricture. My stricture is now so bad I'm needing 20cm surgically removed from the Jejunum to allow me to eat and...

I'm just over three years now but it feels like thirty. Every day I'm reminded of my surgery, the problems are really starting to get to me, compounded with now having to fight for my corrective surgery at the hospital where my surgeon has spend over 18 months trying to get me to agree to it, oh...

I had an ulcer that was bleeding for 6 weeks, then it poured blood! I had a really sore stinging pain kind of in the middle of my body as it was on the exit Jejunum tube from my stomach before the blood started. Then it got really sore and hurt a lot more on putting anything in my stomach (I...

Oh dear this made me giggle I had this conversation with my surgeon as it really is a large lump and I was worried it was my band. He couldn't stifle his smile when he told me its the xiphoid cartilage. It's where it should be and you should have one. I was mortified with embarrassment

Had my band for 10 months. Yes lost weight with it. But I'm so glad it's gone. When you spoke with your surgeon they should have made you fully aware of the things than can (but not will) go wrong. One thing is for sure you will get scarring on your stomach from having a band which may...

I can feel the difference within 48 hours. It's like having 'go faster stripes'. I get mine every 3 months right from the start. I can feel it running out after a couple of months and I always can feel when it's due.

3 years. 10 procedures. I have an appointment to discuss reversal with my surgeon tomorrow. I am officially 'throwing in the towel'.

My nausea has been getting worse in the last few weeks, I've also been finding it quite hard to get fluids into me in sufficient quantity.

No regrets. Wish I hadn't got so many issues, but hey ho, life goes on. And what would it be like if I hadn't had the surgeries ??

Stay strong Emma :)

Yes! Me too. My periods stopped for about 14/16 months afterwards and I had malnutrition for about 1 1/2 years. My periods did restart but not much and the other symptoms have started. It's a right bloody pain! I've had an underactive thyroid for 20 years but it's been getting worse in the...

I heard from her this last weekend and she's ok.