I was just thinking about this last night, and was curious...once your stomach is fully healed, is it still possible to develop strictures or leaks? Since you still have the staples inside of you, I suppose you'd still have some "weak spots" in your stomach.

I may be wrong but I believe once you are completely healed in 6-8 weeks the risk of leak goes to zero because the healing happens around your staples.

My friend had a leak at 3 months. I girl on this site had a leak at 1 yr. in both cases the leak was already there but very minuscule so took awhile to show up. The staple line takes two years to heal microscopically. My surgeon said its unlikely to happen after the first 2 to 3 months

A good question, that I hadn't thought of! Thanks for posting

My surgeon told me that he can't guarantee that I will "never" get a leak, but he said after 6 weeks you are completely healed..