Hello, I have an adjustable gastric band that was placed in June 2005. It was completely emptied over a year ago. Recent imaging shows that there is still a signifant amount of restriction. At this moment, I am suffering severe (perhaps a 7 on a scale of 1-10) pain in my chest in the vicinity of the band, which pain flows in waves through my chest and then down through my stomach. I have taken a muscle relaxant, cyclobenzaprene 10 mg) and 800 mg of Ibuprofen, and I believe that both have passed through the band restriction as I am able to drink hot tea. I need to know what else I can do to alleviate this pain without going in for emergency surgery to have the band removed. It is Christmas Eve here and everything is closed.
Actually your gastric band cause gastric reflux upward to esophagus and then down to stomach so take cap Gomez D OD and spy Machine gel 10 ml TDS it will surely help you if possible go to doctor for barium meal X-ray so that it become clear that it originate from stomach and esophagus and nothing is serious.