JulezitBandToSleeve

Sounds fantastic, good luck!! Hope to see you post some updates as you go .

Well done, I still have 5 weeks till my sleeve, super excited for you..

All good Whitty, I understood what you meant

Hi Imagine923, Thank you, good luck to you also, I will be updating as time goes on, I look forward to hearing your surgeon has returned to look after you. take care xx

Hi Elcee, The stomach had a small pouch below the band as well as above the band and the bottom of the stomach had bent up like a taco shell and was stuck with a glue like substance keeping the stomach from being able to go back down to it's normal position. He said he had never seen anything like it before and could not understand why I was not in more pain than I presented with.

Hi Imagine923, I have just had the same diagnosis just recently.. I persisted for with absolutely no weight loss for over 1 year but I had been not able to keep any food down for about 3 months, I had Fluid removed a few times to no avail, the doctor I had kept telling me to keep following his diet instructions of no Breakfast, tuna or chicken only for lunch and the same for dinner with a cup of vegetables.. Yet I could not even keep down Soups or other soft foods. I got to the stage where I could no longer put up with the constant vomiting and went to see another doctor for a second opinion. I made the decision to get the band out and have it checked, which he did on the 15th of June 2012, The doctor informed me after the removal of the band that my band was pushing into my liver and my stomach had flipped up from the bottom to the top, (like a taco, as you describe) hence the food had no where to go accept back up and out. My GI tract is scared from the constant vomiting. He has told me to have 6 weeks for recovery after which he is going to sleeve me, he did give me the option to re-band but after what I had already experience I made the decision to go for the sleeve instead. I have another appointment on the 27th June for a review. I will update after the appointment with any other information. Good luck with your next surgery.

Hi Whitty, I am doing the same I had the band done in June 2010, after much vomiting and constant pain and discomfort I had the band removed 15 June 2012 I was told by the doctor whom preformed the removal that I had a lot of complications going on inside with my stomach, liver and GI tract. I am now in recovery mode till August so every thing internally can recover and settle down, I am then having the sleeve done.. I did lose 22kilos with the band in the first year, then battled to lose any thing in the last year. I look forward to having the sleeve.