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thanks thats helpful because my surgeon did gastric bypass and revisions for 14 years and a Bypass reversal which took 24 Hrs in the OR, but is very new to lap band and I will be the first band over bypass for him there is another person waiting for an approval though in the same situation, I guess I'm just nervous about yet another surgery.

Hi di the surgeon say the band over bypass was safe?

Kelleigh710 thanks for the elink I will check it out I wasn't sure how many people were actually getting the band over bypass done that helps.

I agree also we should change our habbits first but true also dont judge, I am on weightwatchers now and am getting the band as a tool... this time around. Further more if anyone on this site was fit or had an acceptable BMI we wouldn't be on here wether we stretched our bypass pouch or just stretched our natural stomachs out everyons in the same boat the fat boat so don't throw stones we may sink :thumbup: and if it was so easy oh dark one to just up and change your eating habbits WHY DO YOU NEED THE BAND at all...:laugh: last time I checked no one gets a BMI of 44 by eating rain drops .....we all have a eating disorder clearly and by the way lap band puches stretch too if your not careful. I know a nurse who had Lap Band and after 5 years her pouch streched a little but enough to balloon somewhat over the band kinda like a mushroom shape if you can imagine, it requires another surgey to correct and if that happens you cant get anymore band fills until its surgically corrected....I say we should all consider how we ever got Obese in the first place.....not who blew thier pouches first time around which now studies show are over half of gastric bypass patients......its an epedimic

Hi I am 32 years old and I also had gastric bypass in 2001 I weighed 330lbs and am now at 266lbs, I believe after having my 2 children within those 10 years my pouch stretched I am only 64lbs away from my pre bypass weight, I'm scheduled for Lap Band over gastric bypass also on June 3, 2010. I am stil 119 lbs from my healthy weight goal. Good to see other bypass patients are getting the band