JulezitBandToSleeve

I became lager after the birth of my three children, but as I was younger I could always manage to dietand exercise after each birth, then as time went on depression got the best of me and my weight fluctuated more and more, the older I got the harder it became to remove it.

The largest I got to was 136kg and the lowest was 87kg, this continued for about 20 yrs till I finally decided enough was enough and was worried about my health, with heart failure and diabetes in the family history and for my own self image..

I then decided in May 2009 that I was going to do something more permanent about it, I looked into Gastric Banding, saw a friend of mine go through it and joined a Insurance fund as the waiting time was 1 yr I was booked in for surgery on the 23rd June 2010 the day of the anniversary, I was 126kg I got down to 97kg about 8 months after the surgery, the vomiting then begun, and the doctor played with the fills to try to adjust it, in that time I went up to 101kg to 104kg which is what I have been fluctuating with between for the last 12 months..

I persisted for with absolutely no weight loss for over 1 year but I had been not able to keep any food down for about 3 months, I had fluid removed a few times to no avail, the doctor I had kept telling me to keep following his diet instructions of no breakfast, tuna or chicken only for lunch and the same for dinner with a cup of vegetables.. Yet I could not even keep down soups or other soft foods.

I got to the stage where I could no longer put up with the constant vomiting and went to see another doctor for a second opinion. I made the decision to get the band out and have it checked, which he did on the 15th of June 2012, The doctor informed me after the removal of the band that my band was pushing into my liver and my stomach had flipped up from the bottom to the top, like a taco hence the food had no where to go accept back up and out. My GI tract is scared from the constant vomiting, I had a glue like substance around the outside of my stomach and other organs, he believes this is due to an infection at some point, this is what allowed the stomach to stay up.

He has told me to have 6 weeks for recovery after which he is going to sleeve me, he did give me the option to re-band but after what I had already experience I made the decision to go for the sleeve instead. I have another appointment on the 27th June for a review. I will update after the appointment with any other information.

Good luck with your own journey.