I was 400 when I had my band taken out and the switch part of this surgery done 12/26/15. (they could not do the sleeve portion due to scaring). I was 325 on 12/2/16 when they did the sleeve. I am now 300. my goal is just to be a normal size. I dont care the number persay.
Hey everyone, I had the band for 6 + years, it finally took 3 years of enough complaining that's someone listened and agreed something was wrong.
Anywho, I decided to go with the DS. Had surgery on Tuesday. Other then pain, everything seems to be good.
However, the surgeon said the scar tissue was so bad around the band and the the stomach had grown around the band and actually attached to part of the liver that it took him almost an hour just to remove the band. So he did not do the sleeve part of the surgery. He did however reroute the intestines and did the 'switch'
The surgeon said he said we may never have to go back to do the sleeve because he thinks this may do the trick..
I am not finding much info on the web regarding anyone else doing only 1/2 a DS.
So anyone got anything they can add to help with this?
towrecovery got a reaction from ChadlyRN in Guys ~400lbs that had DS
towrecovery got a reaction from Pinkgirl1234 in 4 days post opp, got DS, no sleeve. Anyone else been threw this?