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Nice to meet you as well. It is really nice to know you are not alone. I absolutely love the team I have at LGH, but they don't really elude to patients that number of conversions for bariatric patients from band to sleeve is rising...not just with this team but as a whole. From what I have seen out there...the number is growing. Can't go back, but if I knew what I know now, I would have been all over the sleeve as my first choice. I wanted the least invasive of the three surgeries, so opted for the band...which by the way at this moment...feel it is the most work and most challenging to hit your weight goal...just my thought based on my experience. It sucks what insurances put you through. E

Thanks Chyrstine...actually I'm a NH resident moving home...lived in MA for 3 years and before that NH for 20+, so glad to be back. Good luck with your surgery. Are you by chance with the Center for Weight Management out of Lowell General? They have been absolutely wonderful through the band process and went to bat for me to push for approval to convert from the band to the sleeve. Can't speak highly enough about them. E

Hi All...new to bariatricpal.com. Just moved from Lowell to NH...and having my surgery on December 9th. Would love to connect with others in the area, so bring on the chat. I just did the signup...so apologize for no profile pic as of yet or detailed info...it's 3 am...can't sleep and just getting this rolling. E myblogz.us [sharedmedia=trackers:tickers:13585]

Hi All I stumbled across this site in my search for info on the necessity for a bowel prep for sleeve surgery. I'm a post-op band patient. Had my surgery done on 5/7/2012...started at 266 and was down to 200, then the unfortunate happened. I became sick in the spring with really bad allergies and had a constant/persistent cough carrying through until July. I had been vomiting constantly for about 3 months keeping down very little. I had finally had enough and made my doctors investigate to find the band had slipped to the upper side of the small pouch and the bottom of the esophagus...so all the restriction in my band was causing me to immediately vomit when I ate barely get a little down each time. I had a choice...fix the band and know that when I had another allergy attack it would most likely happen again, do nothing or make the decision to covert to the next least invasive surgery - the sleeve. Kind of a no brainer for me since I had come so far and vested to much in the journey to turn back...I chose to do the sleeve. It took more than a month for my insurance to review the case and I finally receive approve on Thursday (Nov 28th)...with a scheduled surgery date of December 9th. So now that I'm moving into the week before the surgery...anyone perhaps a patient at the Center for Weight Management in Lowell and know if they require a bowel prep before surgery and/or if you have to go on clear liquids for several days before? I know every location is different, but I'm pretty confident that CWM doctors keep to the same line of direction. I have my appointment with the anesthesiologist and surgeon on Tuesday this week...so that leaves me only 5 days until the surgery. Not sure what I should expect outside of knowing that I will have to get the patch for nausea behind the ear, get the roxicet for after the surgery...outside of this I'm clueless and I hate not knowing. Actually glad I found this site...it will be nice to connect with others. In the support groups I attended after my band surgery....for more than a year...I can count on less than 5 fingers the number of patients who were also band...often felt like the odd person out when I had questions...no one could relate. E