What insurance do you have?

SO frustrated with my band right now.  Banded in 2007 - unfilled in 2012.  Insurance no longer covers treatment including removal.

I have been PBing/throwing up 1-2x a week for the past few months.  Upper GI shows normal, Scope shows normal but still throwing up. 

Doc prescribed anti-nausea meds but I'm NOT nauseous!!  Then suggested taking claratin to help with mucous...I'm only getting mucous when I'm PBing/sliming

So frustrated with them right now - do i need a 2nd opinion?? 

Good luck! :) 

Use this as an opportunity to revise to another surgery, where you need repeated corrective surgeries,  I revised to rny and I love it!

As you're starting at square One and have little and no info on what the band is about and how to make it a partner (no magic in WLS; the owner must follow the manual and do the work), you do need to connect with a bariatric surgery practice for follow-up, esophagram (a.k.a. barium swallow) and, if feasible, band adjustments.  Part of the deal will be a session or so with the practice's RD so that you can get instructions for meal-planning and foods to avoid.  You'll also do well, right now, before you even make an appt, to call the bariatric practices in your area to ask about their support groups.  (It would be most unusual if you're told that the group is for their own patients only; most welcome people who've had surgery elsewhere.)  A group meeting will give you a chance to talk with others (there are fewer and fewer band people, however) about what they've done from the start.

Two good guides for starting an exercise program for extremely overweight people are sparkpeople.com and livestrong.com.  They're similar in focus on health, fitness, weight control and the like.  They are not about surgery but each has "teams" within formed by users who've have had.  I'm more familiar with sparkpeople.  It's got tons of videos, articles, et al. that are great.   Spark also has Chair Exercise Team with helpful members and, I believe, a permanent list of chair exercise videos.  If your public TV station shows "Sit and Be Fit (horrid title, isn't it?)." take a look.  Public libraries have chair videos on loan, a good way to decide which you like before investing.  The "Chair Dancing" series is fun.  If you do sign up at spark, look for member (pay attention now, this isn't straightforward) -IndyGirl. Her screen name actually doesn't begin with a hypen; it begins with the Spanish accent mark, a wavy line, which I'm unable to find now to copy with the usual "n" beneath it.  She started in the high 400's, didn't have surgery, has followed the Spark food plan for years and is now around 200.  My point is that, at the beginning, she could barely move.  Her first exercise routine was simply using a desktop handcycle.  I don't know your weight, so I'm throwing all this at you.

I have no idea whether your band, having been fallow these 13 years, will be viable, but certainly look into it.