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Glad to hear you're doing well Wasa. I personally will be (honestly) interested to hear about your experiences with the sleeve. I don't know much about it but would like to keep my options open, you know, just in case *something* (touch wood it doesn't) happens to my band one day.

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Glad to hear you're doing well Wasa. I personally will be (honestly) interested to hear about your experiences with the sleeve. I don't know much about it but would like to keep my options open, you know, just in case *something* (touch wood it doesn't) happens to my band one day.

So far I am pretty excited about it. I think it will be an easier journey from here on out. I think I would have lost weight equally as well with a band or sleeve but I think it would have been easier with a sleeve.

I like the Ghrelin issue with sleeves, I like the fact that there is no maintenance with it. I like the better stats with a sleeve. Mostly, I just think life will be easier in my case.

The only pain I have is where my port was. I think removing it hurts more than getting it to begin with but it's not severe either way so it is no big deal.

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Glad to hear you are doing well and I am jealous about the PS stuff. How exciting!!!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

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WOW I wish I could say I am to skinny

Congrats on getting things done and recovery.

The band does not work for everyone

So far it has been great for me.

I do not get as full as I would likesome days

but I am almost one year out and down 100 lbs

Good luck

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Glad to hear you're feeling better. Good luck with gaining your 10# back :tongue2:

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wow, 10 lbs too light OMG hehe, glad you're doing well. Keep us updated.

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Glad to hear you are doing well and I am jealous about the PS stuff. How exciting!!!<o:p></o:p>

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Is it going to be difficult to GAIN weight now that you have the sleeve though? Especially in the beginning. How does that work? <o:p></o:p>

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I haven't quite figured out the "gaining on the post op diet" yet but I'm working on it. I'm supposed to be on clears but my doc told me to use milk in my Protein shakes instead of Water. Gahhh... the dreaded white carbs.

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WOW I wish I could say I am to skinny

Congrats on getting things done and recovery.

The band does not work for everyone

So far it has been great for me.

I do not get as full as I would likesome days

but I am almost one year out and down 100 lbs

Good luck

The band works verrry well for some. The thing about WLS is sometimes you don't know which one will be for you until you try it. Banding afforded me a 127# weight loss but I just can't do it anymore. Thus, the sleeve. Some don't tolerate a band, I guess I am one of them. :)/

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So glad to hear you are doing good! How was the recovery as compared to banding? I hope that you will still stick around here and help us all. I know that personally your posts have helped me!

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I don't understand... why would you get a sleeve when you're already past goal? I'm not being facetious or anything, I'm just curious. I guess I would just leave well enough alone.

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So glad to hear you are doing good! How was the recovery as compared to banding? I hope that you will still stick around here and help us all. I know that personally your posts have helped me!

Any revision surgery is going to be harder than working on a virgin stomach so I can't really answer. My sleeve sister and sleeve brother that day were fine, they were up and walking and doing great. I was in bed on morphine but I had been warned that revision is much harder. I'm pretty tough, you know? But the first 48 hours were not fun.

I can only tell you that the others with virgin stomachs ... it was a piece of cake. Revision was harder but totally doable and worth it.

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I don't understand... why would you get a sleeve when you're already past goal? I'm not being facetious or anything, I'm just curious. I guess I would just leave well enough alone.

If I lose my band and don't change surgery types I'll just regain. If you think about it, there isn't much value in regaining then going through a 3rd procedure. (Original band, removing the band, doing the revision) So the standard of care in the US and Mexico is to do it in one surgery, less anesthesia time, lower risk, maintain vs. regain then having to lose again.

If I would have waited much longer I wouldn't have been a good surgical risk and they could have only removed my band. I didn't want yet another procedure down the road after regaining for a revision so I opted for the Standard of Care and had it all done at once since it would have to be done eventually anyway.

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I have a friend who has been banded for 6 years. She got completely unfilled because she thought she learned new eating habits. She immediately gained 15 lbs.

It's our brains not just our stomach that causes us to go back to the eating habits we had before WLS. I would get a sleeve in a heart beat

if anything happened to my band.

WasA, I am so glad you're home from the hospital and on the road to recovery!!

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I have a friend who has been banded for 6 years. She got completely unfilled because she thought she learned new eating habits. She immediately gained 15 lbs.

It's our brains not just our stomach that causes us to go back to the eating habits we had before WLS. I would get a sleeve in a heart beat

if anything happened to my band.

WasA, I am so glad you're home from the hospital and on the road to recovery!!

I would have been the person gaining immediately without any WLS type. If I can eat, I do. If I can't, it's no big deal.

Denise, you have been very cool throughout all of this. (Denise has known about the revision). You have been a fantastic friend to me! Thank you.

Everyone here is great, I love this board.

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