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That butt pain can be sciatica which goes along with a sore back and a chiropractor or physiology can help. Lap band 2009 Sw 200/lw 161/cw 214 Sleeve revision booked 17 May

I hope your surgery went well today. My revision is the 17th Lap band 2009 Sw 200/lw 161/cw 214 Sleeve revision booked 17 May

I had band revision to RNY 14/11/2016. I've lost 55lbs to date. It's slow and every month I stall. I have the same fear every month that I'm not gonna lose anymore. Be prepared for a slow long slog to the finish line. I have another 50lbs to go [emoji37]

I just got mine today and Aetna 72 hours for lapband to Gastric Bypass Revision.

I am May 8th as it is a revision from lapband to gastric bypass. The insurance approved in 72 hours ! Surgery on Monday!! I am happy I have had so many complications.

I get it - I love food, too, which is why I needed the surgery. I don't have a "stop" button when it comes to eating, but my band became a "stop" button. Even with this awesome tool, I get frustrated because I WANT to eat more, but I CAN'T. Like last night we had a work dinner with prime rib (YUMMMMMMM) but I could only eat a sliver of that, some green beans, and a few bites of potatoes. I wanted a lot more, but it wouldn't be worth the pain. I'm very averse to vomiting, so I guess that's a good thing. But I'll admit it, sometimes I miss being able to have a good binge when I'm having a terrible day. Point is, I understand where you're coming from. Being fat sucks. Wanting food all the time sucks, too. No surgery will stop that feeling, even the sleeve or RNY because it's mostly psychological. I still get mad when I grab my small plate and put a couple ounces of meet and a cup of veggies on it and think to myself "this will never fill me up" but it does. It's just different now. Anyway, I'm glad you're taking care of yourself. Make sure you're talking to a bariatric surgeon when asking about revision. I don't know how that works with lap band erosion (might be dangerous to remove the band and revise you all at once) but it's worth asking. Also, check with your insurance! They very well might cover the revision cost due to band failure. Good luck!!! Keep us posted on what you find out and what they'll do for you.

That's such great news! Thank you for the feedback! I'm relieved to know that my weight loss won't stop them from a revision. I know I need it, I have all the willpower in the world but when it comes to food it's been a life long struggle. It's definitely and addiction i've been fighting all my life. Aside from the past 6yrs. Let me tell you, i've never been so happy with my weight not consuming my entire life. Thanks again!

No, I absolutely welcome advice, it's just not my main goal here. I regularly see a psychiatrist mostly due to this uncontrollable anger that seems to arise every time the abscesses fill which is right around PMS. I've done so much research i'm exhausted. The best I could come up with is endometriosis growing on the dead tissue of my eroded band. I've seen so many specialists but never once has one even acknowledged that it could be the lap band. This has been going on since august and i'm literally at my wits end. I don't have a husband or children which is why i'm so quick to just pull the plug instead of be fat again. It seems so irrational but dealing with this weight since childhood is exhausting. I'm tough and have tons of willpower but it's never lasted longer than a year when it comes to food. I know my band was tight. When I did the barium swallow test the X-ray tech said it was very restricted but if i'm ok with it so is he. This is more than likely due to the fact that I was still heavy. No one seems to understand even with a couple bites a food a day (and yes even that made me puke which was normal) I was still overweight but a size 16 was fine for me, i'm not greedy, I get it I will always be heavy. Until august, now i'm down to 180 and dropping even without restriction and tons of food. It's so frustrating that I can't find the help and it never occurred to me that it was erosion because the symptoms were always loss of restriction and I assumed I still had it since I wasn't eating. I'm basically living on ensure. Anyway, PMS is here and the drainage is picking up so my best bet is the UofM ER considering it's a research hospital maybe they will show more concern. Thy have Bariatric specialists as well as endometriosis specialists. You're right, no amount of money will stop me from a revision. The exact reason I stopped seeing my lap band doctor is because it took over a year of tiny fills to even get restriction, he only wanted my money so I never looked back. Thank you for putting this all into perspective, I will head to the ER tomorrow.

Holy Hell... I know you're not asking for advice, but I feel you need it. 1) I hope you're joking when you say you'd rather be dead than fat. How would your mother feel? Do you have a spouse and/or kids? How would they feel? Do you think they'd rather visit you in the cemetery or keep loving you regardless of your weight? 2) FIND A BARIATRIC SURGEON FOR GOD'S SAKE. Get that band out of your stomach. There's a wonderful thing called "revision" and hopefully your insurance will cover it if the band failed you. If not, assuming you'd rather be dead than fat, I believe you'd rather be poor than dead so you can always take out a loan. 3) Throwing up was NORMAL for you?? Girl, that ain't right. I do my best to chew my food so well that I don't have a chance at barfing because that is no way to live. If you're going to get revision surgery, you need to nip that habit in the bud. You could cause yourself some serious damage if you ripped the incisions on your stomach after a sleeve or RNY. 4) Actually, before you do anything else, SEE A PSYCHOLOGIST. You have some issues you need to work through before surgery works for you. Your goal all along should've been health, not size necessarily (though being able to fit into cute, smaller clothes is a happy side effect). Your doctor shouldn't have performed surgery on you from what you're saying here (that you'd rather be dead than fat, which indicates you're majorly hung up on the superficial aspects of weight loss and not the deeper, positive effects of reduced blood pressure, reduced risk of diabetes, and slashing your chances of getting cancer). 5) Shame on your doctor for giving you the surgery and then setting you loose after filling you too tight. My surgeon would never have done that. He filled me too tight at my last appointment and wouldn't let me leave like that (the water I drank to test the restriction was gurgling in my throat). Filling so tight that you can't eat healthy food without making yourself sick should absolutely not be the goal of this surgery. Fat is bad, yes, and it's uncomfortable, unhealthy, and unattractive - BUT it is better than being a corpse. Okay, that's all I got I think. Even if you don't want this advice, I hope if anyone else comes along with the same issues as you reads this and gives their surgery a second thought or seeks mental health assistance, I will be happy I wrote it. I do wish you luck and health, and pray you take care of yourself if only for the sake of your family. I would be sick with anger if my mom did this to herself, or my spouse, or especially my son.

I was sleeved by Dr Roy Brancatisano at Norwest Private Hospital. See www.circleofcare.com.au Roy performed the lap band procedure on me in 2003 which was revised to a sleeve only a week ago. They are very similar to OClinic in that it's an all inclusive fee. He's also specialised in bariatric surgery for around 20 years. He has a near zero leak rate which he attributes to skill and the over-suturing of the upper part of the sleeve.

My BMI is 29 and my revision surgery is on the 25th, but I still have to do the liquid diet. My surgeon said this had nothing to do with my current weight or BMI, but instead is to ensure my liver is as healthy as possible and not enlarged for the surgery as this gives the best outcome. I'm in Sydney Australia, so maybe we do things differently down here?

I just had my band to bypass done 4/26 and spent 5 days in the hospital. It has been very uncomfortable to take deep breathes or talk for long periods of time ... my stomach still does seem inflated a bit with gas but I just wanted to see if this was something that had happened with any of you ?

Revision to sleeve may 17 Lap band 2009 Sw 200 LW 161 CW 214 Sleeve schedule 17 May

I had MGB surgery 3 weeks ago and am doing well. I lost 30 lbs pre-surgery and 10 lbs post-surgery, and the pain was minimal after the first 1-2 days. I'm still having difficulty getting in the required fluid and protein but getting better day by day. I'm very happy I had this surgery and am excited for you to get your revision done. You're going to do so much better with the MGB than the lapband! Good luck!

Hi everyone. Thanks for sharing your stories. I am having revision from band to Sleeve on May 17. My surgery date is Wednesday and I have a 1 night hospital stay then fly home Friday evening. After my band surgery I had a lot of pain and flying home was excruciating and I had to get up constantly to walk on the plane just to Distract myself. How many have flown home after surgery and Any advice? I have a prescription for compression hose and have a friend meeting me there but we are on different flight home. I will update here after surgery. Also I only ever lost 40 lbs with the band and gained 55 back after needed to be defilled. My bmi is 34, hoping to get down to 28.

Welcome! This surgery will be like starting all over from scratch again. Clear liquid diet after surgery, etc. I'm not that familiar with how long a band patient takes to resume a normal diet, but a mgb patient will take 8-9 weeks. Expect the recovery to be a little worse because it is a revision, and it is a more invasive procedure. Not horribly worse, but a bit. Did the band erode into your stomach? If so, then it's an added complication. Once it's over and you are healed, you should find the new procedure superior to the band. No more fills, more natural eating.

Do not blame your food cravings on emotional issues, Bostonmama. A good non-surgeon bariatric specialist can evaluate to see if medications or surgery revision is needed. Please do not beat yourself up for the cravings. Your struggles may be as much physiological as psychological and can be addressed by the right medical specialist. Yes, see a nutritionist and psychologist but there are a lot of experienced, talented obesity specialist medical doctors in the Boston area.

Hi , I am scheduled for May 30 th for a revision from sleeve to possibly RNY , and I am a vegetarian . Have been for about 5 years . I do eat fish , almond milk, cheese, eggs. So I'm not Vegan . But I do not consume chicken , pork, beef etc. when is your surgery scheduled for? Where are you from?

I had band for six years. Had revision surgery April 21st 2017. I'm still on full clear liquids but I am thirsty. I have tried broth, Gatorade, jello and coffee. Does anybody have ideas? I am 67 yrs, 9 months

You started at a lighter weight. Generally, the heavier a person is, the more rapid the weight losses will be during the first few months out. Certain groups of individuals (e.g., males, people under 35 years old, and the super-obese with BMIs greater than 50) are normally the faster losers. Likewise, others (older females, menopausal women, certain racial/ethnic minorities, lighter people with less than 70 pounds to lose, bariatric surgery revision patients, and those with metabolic problems such as diabetes, hypothyroidism, PCOS, and severe insulin resistance) sometimes end up in the slow-loser camp after weight loss surgery. Also, genetics is an issue that bariatric surgeons often do not discuss with patients to avoid discouragement. However, you had a gastric bypass, and a chromosome 15 genetic variant predicts the speed of weight loss after bypass. Those with two copies of the beneficial variant of chromosome 15 lose rapidly. Those with one variant copy lose at an average rate, while people with no copies of the genetic variant often have poor responses to the bypass and lose less than half their excess weight. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/genetics/gene-variant-linked-weight-loss-surgery-success-5-2-13

Hello all....I'm 5 weeks post op, lab band revised to sleeve, starting weight was 244, day of surgery I was 234 and today I'm at 217.5. Weight loss wise, I had a great first 2.5 weeks after surgery and dropped 16.5 consistently and quickly. But now for the past 2.5 weeks I haven't been able to lose even one pound! And I'm barely eating and doing exactly what I've been doing since surgery. I'm so frustrated! Is this normal? What can I do to start losing weight again? I have my doctors visit next week on May 3rd so then he will clear me for exercise I hope, not that I enjoy it, but I've heard it helps later with saggy skin. So please anyone out there, I'd love any advice on what to do now that I'm 5 weeks post op and stuck and totally stalled!!!! HELP

Thank you for posting this, definitely will be on my list. Mine look like your before.. and I'm back at my presurgery weight waiting to see if I can get a revision. All the yo yo up and down weight loss is so hard on the ta-tas

I'm 64 and I just had a band to bypass revision on April 10th. Honestly, until I actually went to the hospital the morning of surgery, I wasn't sure I was going to go through with it. And for the first week after surgery, I would wake up in the morning and say "OMG, what have I done to my body????" The thought of changing my natural plumbing really freaked me out. This all said, I'm now 3-weeks out and feeling pretty good and the "What have I done," freakout thinking is completely gone. I think you should go for it. You're most likely looking at another surgery anyway to remove the band at some point, so why not just do it right this time and have a procedure that actually works? I'm glad I had it done -- no regrets at all. Bunny

Hi, I had my Sleeve in February of 2014 but then had my revision to bypass this past November. The surgery was a little bit more difficult to get over but I was several years older too. Unfortunately, it did not cure my reflux. It's not as bad but I still have it and I'm still having to take protonix. I've lost a little more weight but not a lot. I still have 30 pounds to go so hoping this will come off soon. With the Sleeve I never got sick, i just had restrictive ability to eat. With the bypass I will get sick if I eat anything I'm not supposed to eat like bread, chicken skin and any kind of beef. It's much harder to get my protein in because eating meat is so difficult now. I miss my sleeve.

Having my band to bypass surgery 9 months ago was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I had the lapband for years and was gaining weight. Got up to 426. Was 390 the morning of the revision and now I'm down to 258. The bypass is so much better for me than the band was. I don't have to worry about getting things stuck and having to throw up. It's a more natural feeling and I just feel full when I've had enough to eat, like a normal person.