Has anyone had their sleeve stretched?

[AussieLady 521]

Over the last three weeks I have been able to eat less and less. I have reached the point where I can drink but if I eat I am sliming and vomitting for at least 2 hours. My surgeon wants to try and stretch my sleeve. I have been very happy with my weight loss but am now starting to have some problems ie. Low blood pressure,, dizziness. Has anyone else experienced this? Has anyone had to have their sleeve stretched?

[Kapoorvilla 117]

My surgeon's nurse mentioned it when I said I could not physically eat the 1100 to 1200 calories they suggested. I told them NO WAY. But I am not having the problems you mentioned.

[AussieLady 521]

I can't get to 600 calories!

[Kapoorvilla 117]

Wow that is a lot less than me. Could they have taken too much of your stomach?

[AussieLady 521]

I don't know. I want to be slim but I don't want to be a skeleton.

[O.T.R. sleever 3,386]

I'd really be interested in hearing how this would be accomplished. Everything I've read or heard indicates a properly formed sleeve is near impossible to stretch.

[AussieLady 521]

OTR, what my surgeon is telling me is that he thinks I may have excessive scar tissue which is taking up food space. I really don't know what to think at this point, but I am feeling very weak and just want to eat.

[NurseGrace 509]

I'd really be interested in hearing how this would be accomplished. Everything I've read or heard indicates a properly formed sleeve is near impossible to stretch.

If I know bariatric patients, where there is a will, there is a way!

lol

[kristikay 60]

My doctor told me about sleeve stenosis which shows up about four weeks after surgery. It is when there is a tightening of the tube. It sounds like what you have. They did tell me to fix it, it was an outpatient procedure to fix it.

[Kapoorvilla 117]

I'd really be interested in hearing how this would be accomplished. Everything I've read or heard indicates a properly formed sleeve is near impossible to stretch.

OTR

A nurse in my surgeons practice explain it to me as a out patient procedure where they go down your throat like an EGD! I told her to stop telling me becauce after my doctors blunder I am not going back under! He cut my small bowel and almost killed me. No second chances for him.

Reading here I find the amounts I can eat fairly common to everyone else.

[Banned member 320]

I agree with OTR! a properly shaped sleeve would be extremely hard to stretch and it will never be able to hold the same amounts of food that it did before surgery. Usually when someone over stuffs their sleeve they vomit or feel a ton of discomfort. If a person really wanted to sabotage themselves and their weight loss they could do this with slider foods ( milk shakes, mashed potatoes, etc,) but this stuff leaves the sleeve fairly quickly and wouldn't be in there long enough to stretch it, same with liquids. The only thing that does stay in the sleeve for a while is Protein but if you over eat that you will more than likely vomit. The thing that does change is gastric emptying. Your stomach becomes more efficient at mushing the food up and sending it through the pyloric valve. There's a really good article about it but I'm too lazy to find it right now.

OP hopefully your surgeon will be able to find out what's going on. I dealt with the dizzy spells but then I started eating more frequently and I've been eating 5-6 meals a day. Hopefully you will start to feel better soon.