Misspeesh

Good question, and great answers!!! Thanks!

I am in your shoes too. Complications with the band choosing to remove and go with the sleeve. Looking for people's experiences both good and bad with making this move.

Good luck tomorrow! I hope you all the best! I feel like i have been reading for hours, mostly cause I have been. I am loving what I am reading so far. I thought I was the only one who couldn't make the lapband work, but I see now I am not alone. I have so much more to read, I will be around a lot. I was a fixture on Lapband Talk two years ago, but as I got discouraged I found it harder and harder to keep going back and supporting the newbies. Now I am the newbie again.

This past Friday I went into my surgeons office and got a complete unfill of my Lapband. We talked about how after 2 year of trying to make it work that the Lapband just wasn't going to work for me. He suggested removing my lapband and having the sleeve surgery. I agreed and told him to start the approval process. I made a choice more than 2 years ago to have bariatric surgery, I was not going to have bypass surgery because I still want to have children and the thought of having malabsorbtion issues, while growing a fetus seems like a bad idea to me. There are no studies to prove me wrong so I am still sticking to that. So that is why I chose the lapband. But now it is clear that the lapband is not working for me. I agreed to have the sleeve surgery, so that the approval process can get under way. Now the research starts. I am encouraged by what my surgeon said about how there are no malabsorbtion issues with this surgery, and that it has results much like the bypass. I am scared, and overwhelmed but I am moving forward. If anyone knows anything, has any advice and or similar experience I am all ears. In the meantime I am here and I am researching. Thanks in advance for the help, support and advice. Sorry this was so long.