Needed a complete unfill

Feb 25, 2010

This is my post from yesterday, 2/25/2010. 

Had my 3rd fill yesterday... bringing me to 3.5 cc's.  They had me drink a bottle of water before I left the office, and that went down fine.  But had to have almost a total unfill tonight.

This morning DH made me a smoothie & it was so hard to get down, I couldn't drink more than about 3/4 cup.  I thought maybe it was too dense.  So along with this, work has been incredibly stressful and today I needed to do a road trip.  We had to stop along the coastal highway a few times as I was not feeling well at all... stuck feeling with a lot pressure in my upper chest; nausea... not going well.  Eventually that got better.  We stopped for lunch and I had a nice safe soup.  But after 4 of 5 slow spoonfuls, the whole feeling started all over again.  After a call to my doctors office, they said to stay on clear fluids only and it might need a slight unfill tomorrow.  But to call this evening if I had vomiting.
 
Unfortunately, by the time I got back in town I was feeling a bit better again.  But tried to take a few bites of soup again, and right back to where I was.  Called the doctors office & they had the doctor-on-call ring me back.  She was so cool, met me at the hospital & took me to their clinic so I didn't have to go to the ER room. As I'd slimed pretty major, well, okay, vomitted... right after I pulled in there, she said she needed to do the major unfill to give my stomach a break to calm down.

So now I have about .2 cc's left.  Next appt with my own doctor is next week for 3 month postop, so I'll find out then how long it will be till I can get fills again.  I'm so sad.   Part of me wanted to suck it up & hold out from calling the clinic.  But I was afraid of hurting the band & my tummy if I didn't follow the rules.  Any help or advice, hugs or prayers would be great. Work has been extremely stressful right now too, so maybe I needed this time to find my footing again.  I don't know. 

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