My husband had his lapband removed last year and sleeve put in same time, he had a leak & had a lot of trouble..we both had band in 2007..we both lost no weight with band....lots complications, He had his sleeve july 2012 has went from 389 to 205 now...and is doing ok, has bad reflux, now a year later i decide to have my band out & sleeve put in, im going to a different dr & he said he would never do those 2 operations at one time because the stomach needs to heel before putting sleeve in & its safer this way...so im havin my band removed tues sept 17 then sleeve 6 weeks later......