Tammy Lafevre

Four weeks of full liquids, then I can progress to soft foods. Asked my surgeon about eggs at 2 week visit and he said no. You are still at risk for leaks 3 weeks out........would do nothing to jeopardize this!

I had a lapband prior to my conversion to gastric sleeve on 10/17. With the lapband I always got a hiccup alerting me it was time to stop eating. I'm still on full liquids and no "hiccups" yet with the sleeve. My friend also has a sleeve and her nose starts running when she's ull.

I had a lapband prior to my conversion to gastric sleeve on 10/17. With the lapband I always got a hiccup alerting me it was time to stop eating. I'm still on full liquids and no "hiccups" yet with the sleeve. My friend also has a sleeve and her nose starts running when she's ull.

JenPen, I am being revised on Tuesday March 1st! I have had my band for almost 10 years! My original surgeon who has been doing bariatric surgery since the early 2000's does them in one. I went and consulted a doctor for insurance reasons and he does them in two steps and you have to do his entire program(see only his nut and shrink), he told me that a revision in two step is the GOLD-STANDARD! I walked out of the office because of an incompetent Insurance coordinator. That's another story. So I AM A NURSE for 27 years and when somebody start talking to you about GOLD STANDARD, I was like what???? So I called 10 top BARIATRIC teaching hospitals. I am in Oregon I started w/OHSU - (actually sent them the records the chair looked at my case and said he would revise me in 1 step), Then I called 9 other hospitals, OHSU, Stanford, Brigham's, Cleveland, mayo, Duke, Enloe, etc. So 8 of the 10 revise them in one step. It really has to do with how your doctor was trained. It was interesting because I spoke to an another Nurse coordinator and she told me she had been to the International Bariatric Conference and one step sleeves were more of the norm across the board. Even though her docs do them in a 2 step process with 8 months in between! She also, said her docs are having such success with sleeves that they are not even performing RNY!
So everyone has an opinion about which is the best one or two steps. But as you can see I went to the EXPERTS and asked. But when you see the doctor he will explain why he does it one way or the other. Because of insurance issues I am having to travel 5.5 hours away. So I really am hoping to be able to be done in one step!
So I had my band done in 2006. No issues until April of last years(except my port broke in 2013) But I have lost 132 pounds with my band. So stay tuned and I will try to update it here.

Do it this is me less than 6 months after my revision surgery . I self payed.