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BrokeMyHalo    107

BrokeMyHalo
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I was banded about 7 years ago. Can anyone share with me the removal surgery? Time? Pain? Recovery?

Thank you

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Vicki0618    123

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Hi! I was banded in 2008 and had it removed in 2010. Just got my sleeve 5 weeks ago. My removal was just about the same as when they put it in. Recovery was about the same except that I could eat. Some doctors do it all in one procedure, but I had mine done separately.

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I was banded about 7 years ago. Can anyone share with me the removal surgery? Time? Pain? Recovery?

Thank you

I'd kinda like to know this also. You're getting revised at the same time, right? I'm hoping to do this, hoping my inflammation goes down in the next 2 months. I'm totally unfilled now and can feel everything I eat. I'm going on an Alaskan cruise May 7-14 and then to Ca for 2 weeks in June, so I was hoping to wait until after thats all over with so I'm not on vacation on a liquid diet!

I did pretty well after my band surgery in Oct 2009, minimal pain, minimal gas. I'm just wondering if 2 procedures (removal and sleeved) make it worse or the same? I spent one night in the hospital with my band and I will also spend one night with the sleeve. At least this time I have someone to take care of me (got married last year!). I guess that also means I have to watch someone eat also! Oh well....

Hope you get some answers, cuz I'm curious also!

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BrokeMyHalo    107

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I'd kinda like to know this also. You're getting revised at the same time, right? I'm hoping to do this, hoping my inflammation goes down in the next 2 months. I'm totally unfilled now and can feel everything I eat. I'm going on an Alaskan cruise May 7-14 and then to Ca for 2 weeks in June, so I was hoping to wait until after thats all over with so I'm not on vacation on a liquid diet!

I did pretty well after my band surgery in Oct 2009, minimal pain, minimal gas. I'm just wondering if 2 procedures (removal and sleeved) make it worse or the same? I spent one night in the hospital with my band and I will also spend one night with the sleeve. At least this time I have someone to take care of me (got married last year!). I guess that also means I have to watch someone eat also! Oh well....

Hope you get some answers, cuz I'm curious also!

I am getting my Lapband taken out, waiting 3 months then being sleeved. I highly recommend this.

My friend had it all in one go, and because she didn't let her stomach heal after her lapband removal she feels zero restriction. Hasn't lost a pound.

I rather be safe than sorry

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BrokeMyHalo    107

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Hi! I was banded in 2008 and had it removed in 2010. Just got my sleeve 5 weeks ago. My removal was just about the same as when they put it in. Recovery was about the same except that I could eat. Some doctors do it all in one procedure, but I had mine done separately.

Can you explain your recovery? Were you sore? Could you lift after?

Did you eat normal right after?

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Vicki0618    123

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I was sore, like after I got the band. But nothing too bad (I seem to recover easily) after about day 3 I was ok. Only took a few days off work, I work a desk job. I don't specifically remember the lifting, but I pretty much did all the normal stuff. I was on liquids for a couple days, but even drinking was better. I think I was eating normally within a few days. Luckily, I didn't end up with any damage from the band. I had it removed because is slipped. But, dang I was glad to have that thing out of me!!!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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