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I have had my band 2.5 years now and I have lost a fair amount of weight but not without complication misery and much more now I embark on a new journey the sleeve I look forward but yet nervous scared and wonder where I will end up nowI have alot of support but all my support come from family that has been sleeved form the begining so I dont really know what to expect he tho my best friend does her best to comfort me and warn me about the difference but yet stress free from the complications I have had with my band My date is March 19 I hope nothing comes up and changes that date for me even tho today is feb 22nd i feel my day is far away and all say it will come fast i hope so i hope im not being unreasonable when i say the 19th is a tuesday and i plan to b back at work on monday

I to had this problem and had the lap band done and please everone dont blast my decision but I had so many problems with the band even been hospitalize having my band totally empited and starting over I just got tired and then I kept getting pouches at first my doctor thought I was over eating I assured him I was not my body just rejected the band and to time consume always running back and forth for fills unfills then people do say there is not alot of research on the sleeve but thats not true the sleeve use to be part of the gastric bypass it was call the duedo switch please forgive my spelling and what happen was they did this to get the morbid obese patients down so they could have the bi bypass but what they found out was alot of patients did good with it and didnt need gastri so they allowed the sleeve to stand on its on now on to malabsorpion that is not totally true either r stomach is still intack so we absorb are food and vitamins I was sleeve 3/19/13 and I am enjoying ever minute of it and hate I wasted so much time and money on the band

I am a former bandster and I did lose ok I would say my starting weight was 272 or 262 and my lowest weight was 189 with the the band I was sleeved on 3/19/13 and according to my doctor scale not mine i was back up to 218 and once I think I even saw 219 I finally decided after all the complications with the band being hospitalize I had enough So after begging the doctor to sleeve me he finally gave in on the date or wls I was 211 and yesterday i was 194 and today im backup to 195.6 now im feeling discourage will anything work for me when will this weight start moving and acting like its goning to leave and stay gone I know weight goes up and down and I know not to get on the scale everday I only got on because I have a doctors appt today and i didnt want any surprise when i got there but I feel he will feel like I feel its not working again what next gastric bypass really I have had some complications but to me there minor compared to what I will get or should get in the end I hope today he release me to full excerise I have not been able to due to my incision fluid back up them reopening my incision but again all part of what I have to go through to get my bottom line result hopefully anyone else been here? Then I read yesterday on one forum that depending on the size of your stomach heck I thought U only get one size so did he leave me a large one and I will just be fat all my life ? Now I have to ask him what the heck did he do? I know I need to just keep working my tool which is the sleeve once I get released but I am the kind of person who wants to know what I am up against. So rdight now I am losing faith again I even had so much faith I gave away all my to big clothes I do mean all of them never did that before not even with the band thats how much faith I had in this sleeve now I dont know and wonder should I ask for my clothes back after all some of them clothes was new! PLEASE HELP

Yes I would gladly b a buddy it's hard for me I work n a doctor office and the drug reps brings all sorts of things and if its not them it's my coworker feeding me I am afraid I was just sleeved on the 19th n a husband who says I am forcing him to gain weight cause I'm not eating imagine that

me to mine has been slow but people keep giving me a reality check pre pre op diet i was 217 day of surg 211 and today 195 and i was sleeved on 3/19/13 so i dont know well as they say rome was not built in a day but this time i am determine to enjoy the weight loss as i go and enjoy cleaning out my closet and saying goodbye to clothes i never did even with the band even when they were to big i feel like this is the real things this time so just enjoy the ride and embraced each lb each ounce lost and when the scale stop enjoy inches gone forever

yes sometimes we have to be our own advocate I know i did I new before they did that i was approved

well congrads and all will go well i had my band removed 3/19/13 and all is well here and will be hoping the same for u

congrads

I also went from band to sleeve on march 19th and u will be fine the first day and a half was hard I will not lie to u but it is true each day u will start to feel better I have not been cleared to excerise yet but I keep feeling im ready. Best wishes and see you on the otherside soon on the loser bench

I was sleeved on the 19th today im feeling light headed and pudding shakes is not on my lisit until tomorrow but with the way im feeling there on the list today

Should I be getting nervous excited? The 19th is my day

congrads you look great

I too will be sleeved Tuesday but I have not decided when should I be nervous or when should I get excited maybe when I wake up from surg and they say everthing went well I want to here the band came right out and no problems and we was able to successfully do your sleeve I dont know but I am ready to start this journey I am ready to sit on the loser bench with everone else I wish u the best and will add u to my friends list and look forward to hearing about your great success

yes I am having a problem with it two and i called the doctor and asked him what was on his mind so he allowed me on can of tomato soup a day and that makes me feel better and the people at work think im sane again lol

congrads to u and i wish u the best

I also am keeping this under my hat my mom of course my husband and some sibling other than that mums the word here

I wil be sleeved on march 19th i also have the band in place now but did not work good for me wish u all the best and soon we will all have r own success story to tell

This is also my 4th day on liquids and yes I am about crazy and yesterday I had a headache out of this world I thought I would reach out and touch someone but im still here and u to will make it by tomorrow we should b good r u drinking anyof the meal replacements drinks i am allowed two aday slimfast 321 or easy edge advantage and that helps some i am schedule for the 19th when is your date?

congrads

i wish u the best im not nervous or scared yet maybe the closer i get to the date right now i feel like i still got plenty of time

I am also going from band to sleeve on the 19th

I can agree with everone I too have struggle for years with this weight I have being told Im trying to take the easy way out even by doctor but in 2009 the same doctors who would not sign off on it previously was in a rush all of a sudden to sign off on it because the type of insurance i had and come to find out if might have being avoid if someone had just listen and knew I had tried to do this but couldnt i did lose weight i pd plenty of money to doctor all types of diet fads and trend always put the weight back on in 2010 i was banded and i thought i was done and i was scared and nervous then to but the choice i was left with wls was less scary i never even thought of myself as being the fat girl cause i could keep up with everone but the point is if u have tried and failed then u really need to sit and think about in one year where would you like to see yourself and how will you get there and will you be happy there i wish no bad health on no one but reality is eventually this weight will give it to us so now im nervous again but the same options are back on the table again and i dont have a choice i need the help and the tool and I know the day the doc say i am well enough to excerise im at it again so i wish u the best

for years I would not get a period took me sometime to figure her out but what i came up with as long as i stayed over 250lb she would not visit but the moment i got under that number here she comes as if someone called her up imagine how pist i was when i figured her out but just to be on the safe side and everweek they r coming up with new side effects and problem call your doc make appt and just c and keep a eye on it and ask is your birth control still being effective because imagine my surprise that soon after i found out i was preg and needed someone to explain to me the nature laws again

I am one who wakes up with food on the mind rather im hungery or not I was banded a couple of years ago and it has taught me some important lesson but did not reset my brain that if u not hunger dont eat but teaches me a lesson evertime so eventually i slowly got the point but now im weighting to be sleeved and i have being having tlk with myself and i have learned to have that couple of water in the moring or i make protein drink and it work just as well wish u the best

well congrads on being sleeved and i do believe and no each day will get better for u and honestly cant wait for my turn to come and i can become one of the biggest loser too