Lost my lap band!

[Reagan0000 1]

I just had my band removed due to it slipping. I have had one for 4 years. I am feeling so depressed, scarred, don't know if I can make it without the band. So scared to gain the weight. Can anyone else share there stories of this happening?

[Cindy C 150]

Next to something happening to my kids, that is truly my worst fear. I feel for you. This is where will power is going to have to kick in. The only advise I can offer you is to be totally proactive! Weigh yourself every single day and the minute you start seeing the number going up know that you have to change something. Keep the crap out of the house and keep yourself busy. Look at old before pictures and remember how awful you felt back then. You did a great job on your weight loss. You can do this too. Good Luck. Any chance they can put a new one in?

[54Shirley 105]

i was on a 12 month preoperative diet do to ins....

My surgeon started me on 1200 calories a day.

To this day I still stay on the same thing.

Whatever you did while you were banded: diet, journal, exercise, etc.. keep track of it now, just like you did before. If you stick to everything the same. Weight should not go on. But Weigh yourself weekly, and keep your eye on it.

[Cocoabean 430]

This is a big fear for me also. I am 3.5 years out. I think I would go to Weight Watchers or Overeaters Anonymous or some other program to try to keep it in check. I'd be lost without my band.

Will you be able to get rebanded or revise to another procedure?

[tulsarealtorgb 0]

I would recommend Weight Watchers and journaling too. You know how much you can eat and get away with. the quicker you join WW and get down to goal weight, the sooner it will be that it will be free to keep going to meetings at goal weight or below. You don't have to set your goal as way low, just a comfortable weight. I do completely understand that this will be starting over for you and i really feel for you!

[Reagan0000 1]

Thanks all. This was my second band. I had this one for 4 months. Insurance won't pay for another one. The surgeon thinks it slipped due to the sutures not being in the band anymore. He didn't know why it slipped for sure. Said he hasn't had this happen. I could understand it more if I had my band tight and had been puking or over eating. I had been so careful with this band. Oh well. Things happen. I am going to look into weight watchers this week.

[CasHorsinRound 1]

Im sorry I have no advise for you except to agree with what the previous posters have said. I have a question for you though. You said that was your second one? Did your surgeon remove the first one and replace it in the same surgery? I have a possible slippage (Upper GI on Tuesday to confirm), and I did not even think about the option of not having my band!! Im a bit scared now. I so sorry for your loss! I can not imagine. I have been unfilled for almost a week now and feel like im going to go insane!

[Reagan0000 1]

Yes. My first band was taken out and a new one replaced n the same surgery. If scare tissue or any snags is present when they remove the first one, they possible cannot replace the second.

I went 1 1/2 years having severe reflux and not tolerating fills. I had multiple upper gi swallows/ egd. They said my band was ok. They finally went n and looked and found it slipped. Don't keep suffering if they don't find anything, Switch dr's. That is finally how my first slip was found. By the time I got someone to agree to do surgery on me to see if slipped, I got very anemic, dropped too much weight, and aspirated nightly on stomach content. I was miserable.. Felt awesome with 2nd band. No problems, no puking. Had sudden abdominal and chest pain.

[CasHorsinRound 1]

Were you still having problems even after you had no Fluid in your band?

[Reagan0000 1]

Yes. Kept getting wore as time went by with nothing n band. Couldn't get liquids down some days.

[CasHorsinRound 1]

Yes. Kept getting wore as time went by with nothing n band. Couldn't get liquids down some days.

Im so sorry you had to go through that (Its what I was going through before the Fluid was removed from my band), but at the same time you have given me hope! Since having the Fluid removed I have not had ANY trouble eating/drinking. I wish you the best of luck! I cant imagine what it feels like.

[CasHorsinRound 1]

Yes. Kept getting wore as time went by with nothing n band. Couldn't get liquids down some days.

[54Shirley 105]

i was on a 12 month preoperative diet do to ins....

My surgeon started me on 1200 calories a day.

To this day I still stay on the same thing.

Whatever you did while you were banded: diet, journal, exercise, etc.. keep track of it now, just like you did before. If you stick to everything the same. Weight should not go on. But Weigh yourself weekly, and keep your eye on it.

The Surgeon messed up, and thought he blew the band. I gained back over 120lbs.. A different surgeon found there was nothing wrong, and he just put me in the Red Zone for about3 yrs......

So now I am getting a second chance.

Like I said though I went back to 1200 calories a day and it helps. This is part of my solution to the problem.

I am sorry things went bad for you, but I went threw the pain too. Then I wanted the piece of Garbage taken out, if it couldn't be fixed. I was ready to do this, and then join weight watchers. It was a plan.

It was filled, and works..... It's safe to say that I have a idea of what you are going threw, So you have to have a back up plan, and weight watchers is a good start.

I wish you luck, and please count those calories or points.

Shirley.