Recovery After Band Is Removed

[Tweety39 0]

I have a few questions about the recovery time after having your band out, what is it like? My Dr said it's the same as when the band went in. I was out of work for almost 2 weeks. I was hoping to go back the Monday after. My surgery is on a Wednesday . My other question is how long after the surgery do you have to wait before you can have sex? If any of you have any answers that would be good.

[loseit 28]

why are you having it removed? I had my put in Feb 2, 2012. I hope to have my forever. Are you having trouble?

[Tweety39 0]

Yes I'm having some major issues. I have precancer cells that they food in my stomach. The walls around my band are thinking, which has caused my band too be very tight. ( I have nothing in the band) I am not able to eat and keep it down. Almost everything comes back up,

[murphy5 0]

I am having similar symptoms. I have no Fluid in the band, I can not keep hardly anything down. I also have acid reflux and heartburn too much. I am having surgery in the morning. My dr is going to remove the band, hopefully repair a hiatal hernia and if he can put another band in place. More than likely he will not be able to put in the new band. I wish you all the best and hope the cancer cells are removed and that you get healthy..

[blondylyn 3]

I haven't had my band removed yet but I am expecting to be off work longer than the insertion simply because I am 2 years older. I think it depends on what you do at work: I sit mostly so I was only off for a couple of days; surgery was on a Friday and I went in to work half a day on the following Tuesday. I am planning on a full week this time.

I think you should give your body more time to adjust this time. (You had your band inserted a month before I did.)

May I ask what your reasons are for having it removed? I'm just curious. Everyone seems to have different reasons.

[blondylyn 3]

Never mind, tweety39. I see your next post.

[kaylacanady 0]

why are you having it removed? I had my put in Feb 2' date=' 2012. I hope to have my forever. Are you having trouble?[/quote']

I had to get unjusted now gettn filld again cnt seem to get full

[lacalzada 0]

Wow, I am sorry to hear of your troubles. I have been having problems with my lapband for the last few years. I had it put in 4.5 years ago and am down about 100 pounds, but for the last 3 years have really struggled. I have some erosion in my esophagus and major reflux issues. I just went in for an emergency deflation yesterday. It gets really tight every few months and then I wake up throwing up and I have to go in for deflation. I have been worried that it could turn in to something more serious.