When I had my sleeve the Doctor also did a hernia repair and removed my diseased gallbladder. My hernia has come back but it is not causing me any pain. I am 34 pounds from my goal and had the 1st of 4 skin removal surgeries. I am hoping with this 1st skin removal surgery it will help me be able to exercise more so I can get to goal soon so I can have the 2nd skin removal surgery and the hernia could be repaired at that time. . However since I do have the hernia the thought has crossed my mind that if I can't get to goal I could try for a revised sleeve at the time of the second hernia repair.

If your Doctor is going to be in there anyhow and the tests show your sleeve needs to be revised If it was me I would do it.

I had the sleeve done in Feb 2012 and never lost enough weight either! On May 30 I had a revision to ByPass. On the sleeve, I went up and down, highest weight was 252 when I had the sleeve (I am 5 ft 4 in so I am morbidly obese too!)....I could never lose enough to be in "onederland", lowest I got down to was about 212lbs.....over the years my weight went mostly up.....even though I couldn't eat very much at once, I tended to graze.....got up to 242 lbs and decided to get the bypass done. I had to self-pay my sleeve surgery. With my bypass, I also had a hernia repair so my ins covered a good part of the bypass surgery costs. I have lost 20 lbs.....and I started exercising again about 4-5 days week.

"Starting over" and doing the bypass is a personal choice.....I felt I had to do it......I am a very slow loser....but I feel in a year from now that I will have a good success story to report!

Good Luck with your decision!

Melody

Thanks for sharing this. I'm thinking about doing a revision because I have reflux so bad but also because I'm slowly gaining. I too am a slow loser and I'm very frustrated.

My reflux was terrible!! I was put on prescription reflux meds because the OTC meds did not help. The sleeve is "notorious" for reflux issues. Even with the prescription meds I still had the reflux off and on. I have not had any issues with reflux since I've had the bypass.....such a relief!

Good Luck!