My story/ Slipped band?

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Hi everyone. I'm new here, and I'm having some issues. I got my band

in July of 2004. Everything was going great. I'd lost around 90

pounds and was 10 pounds short of my final goal. Then I got a very

tight fill and I couldn't eat much of anything. My mother had a

gastric bypass about 15 years ago, so she's an expert at the

little " tricks " you can use to eat more. She felt bad that I wasn't

able to eat much, so she let me on on a way she uses that lets her

eat a lot (I'm not going to tell you what it is as I've never heard

anyone else who knows about it and I don't want to sabotage

everybody else). I'm the world's biggest self sabateur, so I ended

up using the trick a lot and I've gained back 75 pounds since last

May. That's terrible, but that's not what I need help with. This

morning I woke up with pretty bad upper abdominal pain. It hurts

when I breathe or move too much. I thought maybe it was period

related, but then I've thrown up everything I've eaten today. Water

and carnation instant breakfast were the only things I could keep

down. I realized my stomach pain is the same that I got one time

when my fill was too tight. But I haven't had a fill in almost a

year. If it weren't for the pain it wouldn't be a big deal because I

need to lose so much weight. Are these symptoms of the band

slipping? Why would it do it all of a sudden? This is going to be

terrible for me because I don't have insurance so I'll probably just

have to get the band removed as opposed to getting it fixed. I just

bought a new car and I work minimum wage, so I don't have ANY extra

money. Can anybody give me advice?

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