CarlsbadDS

I am also a Band-to-Sleeve failure - thank you homeesiick for starting this thread.  
  I got a band back in 2010 when I weighed 330 pounds. The band worked great, because I lost 85 pounds, but I was throwing up each time I ate anything. I would even have slime come out of my nose! All the vomiting put a lot of strain on my esophagus and the part of my stomach above the band, where the strain ended up tearing a hole in my stomach. I saw another doctor and he revised me to a sleeve in 2015. The sleeve worked for a while, but I slowly started regaining weight and I am now close to my pre-band weight. My doctor recommended I get duodenal switch, and I am now waiting for approval from my insurance company.     My doctor thinks a contributing reason why my sleeve didn’t work is because of all the damage done to my esophagus by the band.   I would be curious to know how many other people have had a Band-to-Sleeve failure.   Thanks