lmiller916

Thanks everyone, this is a lot of good info! I'm meeting with my surgeon today and now have a few more questions to add. I'll report back on what he says. Thanks again!

Hi, my name is Lisa and I had my band out in Jan since I had a lot of issues with gerd and regaining ALL my weight back. I'm still waiting on my final approval to go forward with the gastric sleeve in (surgery slated for April). I only lost about 40 lbs with the band :-( I'm hopeful the sleeve will allow me to lose more weight because I really feel like this type of WLS is my only option to even have a remote chance of losing and keeping my weight off. I do understand now more than ever that this is just a tool. I'm still so scared I won't lose a significant amount of weight and/or regain. Has anyone out there had the band removed and is now sleeved? Did you lose more weight with the sleeve? What else could you tell me about the sleeve?