I am almost a month away from getting banded. I was wondering about the port. Some people say it shows through.. others say they don't have any problems or visibility. I also would like to know if anyone picked lap band over the gastric sleeve/other WLS. why? Thank you!!!

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I am almost a month away from getting banded. I was wondering about the port. Some people say it shows through.. others say they don't have any problems or visibility. I also would like to know if anyone picked lap band over the gastric sleeve/other WLS. why? Thank you!!! <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

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I didn't even know where my port was until my two week check up. I have heard when you do lose a lot of weight you can feel your port if you push on it. I choose lap band, because I can remove it if I want or if there are complications and I need to remove it. I didn't want to chop up my insides and not be able to reverse something that could potentially turn out to be not such a good idea. I like the fact that with the band you can get fills and feel full and not want to eat, but later when you reach your goal weight you can loosen it to eat more calories. Hope that helps

When I got my lapband 5 years ago, the port stuck out when I lost the weight. When I got a replacement band 3 weeks ago (because my band had a persistent leak, an very uncommon band fault) he put in a new style of port, deeper down and I can't see it even though my BMI is 24.

I was someone who I suppose chose the lapband over other WLS, not once but twice. The first time I chose the band because it was a band or gastric bypass and I was scared of removing so much of my stomache.

The second time I chose the band because:

a) it was very successful for me, so why not stick with what I know works?

when something went wrong, I could fix it and get back into the game

c) The recovery was shorter (though this didn't end up being true through no fault of the band)

d) I'm less scared off removing so much of my stomache but between that and NOT removing it, I prefer the latter

So when the time came to decide between a replacement band and revision to a sleeve, I went back and got a replacement band.