Lapband Update

Time for an update on lap band related items...
I have evidently been having a lot of reflux at night that i am so not aware of I was thinking I was getting up maybe once every few nights with problems but according to the lady I am renting my room from I am up every night several times a night. So I called my surgeon about it on Friday. He wasn't actually there but called in a prescription for me for Previcid solutabs. That is one expensive little pill! But it is also a miracle worker. I am still having a few issues but by and large the reflux has ended and I think the only reason I have any reflux at all now is because the rains have stopped and the sun is out so the pollen is up and I am having sinus and allergy issues which are a pain but very manageable. My surgeon also wants to see me this week to possibly take out a little of the fill which sometimes helps with reflux so I have an appointment on Friday morning. I find it interesting that I had gotten so used to my interrupted sleep pattern that I really wasn't aware that there was a problem at all. I just wouldn't remember all the times I got up during the night. I remember having a persistent cough like that once and having a roommate literally waking up to my coughing and having to wait to make sure I continued breathing when my coughing spell was over. I wouldn't even wake up but she would! Poor girl!
You know over the course of the last 18 months I have been very lucky and blessed. I have had relatively few problems associated with the lap band. Most of my issues have been due to an over fill or sickness. I mean my recovery was fast and fairly pain free in fact I remember a few days of discomfort, a couple of incisions that had some pain or discomfort, and very little gas pain. All of the recovery stuff was over with in a matter of days except for the healing of the incisions and that was just a matter of a week or so. then there was the overfill fun back in.... late October? and now this reflux thing going on. I know of people who have pretty major discomfort for weeks following the surgery, who can't seem to find that "sweet spot" when the fill is restricting but not overly so, who every time they get a fill end up thinking it is an overfill because of how they react to it and so get it removed again. Then there are the people whose port flips and is hard to find or get to for filling, whose band slips and they have to go in for additional surgery to fix it, or whose band leaks and just doesn't keep a fill at all. Yes I have been lucky and blessed. I have also been blessed with a surgeon who cares, who listens, and who actually sees his patients. So while I may be having a little issue right now it really is not anything big or that makes me even think about regretting having had the surgery done. I still think that it is a wonderful tool and I am very grateful I was able to have it done.