Re: Problems (Bipley)

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Bipley, didn't realize you got so ill that you had to have an unfill. Wow. What an ordeal. Something for us all to keep tucked away in our mental notebooks. Glad to hear you are better. Now, DON'T DO THAT AGAIN, YA HEAR!! C Shellin Bipley <Bipley@...> wrote: One issue I want to add to what

Nina writes is that when they refer to band positioning. If you were at the ER it was likely not a bariatric surgeon reading the film? Many times ER docs don't know what band positioning is supposed to look like. They don't know the range of "normal" as it is not their area of expertise. There have been US docs that swear the band is wrapped around a person's esophagus. It isn't. Matter of fact, this is why Dr. Currie from Ohio won't do a post op barium swallow on his patients anymore (poor excuse, though) because the radiologist kept saying the band was too high. It isn't, it's just fine many times.Not sure what the specific issue the ER doc was looking at but I just wanted to throw that out in case it is a possibility.I agree with Nina, get an unfill until you are over this. I had the flu and I was coughing my ovaries up! Or at least it felt like it. Sunday morning Dr. Campos did an unfill.

I feel soooo much better now. I wish I would have done it when I first got sick.When you were vomiting blood, was it streaks of blood or was it all blood? If it was all blood, what did it look like? The appearance and color will be different according to "what" is bleeding. On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:35 AM, nina eguia <nina_eguia > wrote: Even if it is pneumonia I would get the band totally unfilled to help with whatever is going on. Nina mzducati900ss <mzducati900ss > wrote: I have a question... I remember reading awhile ago about someone who couldn't lay down because the would feel sick or choke. On Saturday night, I ate and got sick 20 minutes later. Then 2 hours later and for the next 3 hours I would feel sick and cough up clear liquids.. looked like water but I hadn't drank anything. So I sipped on some milk because that usually settles my stomach and I felt a little better, so I went to sleep. At 4 am I woke up choking, went to the restroom because I felt sick and threw up blood and then I seemed ok until I layed down and then it happened again, by the 3 time I was scared to death because now I could only take shallow breathes because my chest hurt so bad I felt like my lung had collapsed or something. So I went to the hospital and after a full day, x rays, blood work and a CT (they said the band position was a little

off but didn't look slipped) they decided to treat me for Pneomonia (sorry if I hacked the spelling) I went home and was OK that night stay on liquids but the very next night it happened again, I can't lay down because I feel like my chest fills up with water, so now sleep straight up and down.... Any help would be appreciated.Thank you,MAKDOB08-08-07237/159/160ish Nina Eguia Patient Coordinator, Dr Aceves888 344 3916 , 619-962-8142nina_eguia

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