Shana

Thanks for sharing your story, Carrie. Are you having your surgery this week on Thursday? I will be thinking about you.

I was banded 4/08 and lost about 60 pounds. I have gained about 20 of those pounds back. I started having problems with the band 9/09. I have terrible reflux and I was filled and unfilled constantly. My reflux has gotten so bad that they can't tighten the band anymore because even the smallest fill causes me to be unable to tolerate eating. I am scheduled to have the sleeve on 8/30/10. I am really nervous about it for some reason and I don't want to have "buyer's remorse". If I am going to have the same kind of problems with the sleeve as I did with the band then what is the point? Any suggestions? I live in San Antonio, Tx. Anyone else live here and getting their sleeve about the same time? Thanks.

The weird thing is that my band is very unpredictable. I can eat a meal and have no problems then the next meal I eat two bites and throw it up. My doctor does my fills under xray so he can see all of the reflux happening. We are just in the beginning stages of talking about revision. I have to see if my insurance will even cover it.

Can I ask a stupid question? What is foaming, sliming, that kind of thing that people are talking about? I have restriction with my band and have a lot of throwing up but I'm not sure what these other things are. I have also experience having puke cups in my car and stopping on the side of the road to throw up. I'm very tired of that but would put up with it IF I was thin and looking fabulous, but I'm not.

I am so glad I came across this site. I am having problems with my band and I thought it was just me. I have had terrible reflux since getting the band in April 2008 and I have the fill/unfill problems as well. I get a fill, I throw up - I get an unfill and I can eat anything and I gain weight. I am also thinking of switching to the sleeve, but I don't know much about it.