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I had the lap band surgery in January 2010. Within 4 months I lost 85 pounds, however I started having complications with the band and had to have the Fluid removed more than 5 times. The band is coming out Sept. 27 and 4 weeks later they will he doing the sleeve surgery.

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Congratulations. I am a band to sleeve revision surgery also. Doing both in same surgery. Date will be 10/8 or 10/25.

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My doctor was going to do it all at once, but said there was too high of a risk of complicatons. Good luck with your surgery. Did you have any success with the band?

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im in the process of getting approved to have a revision from the band to sleeve. hoping to have it done by the end of october, beginning of november. I lost some at first but had problems also. had to have Fluid removed because every time i had a fill my stomach would swell shut. left it alone for many many years and now have finally decided it has to come out , and on to the sleeve. Hoping to do it all in one surgery also. good luck to everyone, i am hearing the sleeve is awesome

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If you go by band standards, I was a success. More than 50% EWL and kept it off for more than three years. I was not where I wanted to be.

I think you had great results with 85 pounds in 4 months.

For the past three years plus I have been on rx meds for heart burn due the band. The med that was the most effective to treat it started to not work in April of this year. Even with no Fluid in my band right now, if I don't take my medicine I get terrible heart burn.

My doctor said it is better for the patient to get both surgeries at one time. I have seen both opinions on the forum. Pretty typical. You also see different pre and post-op diets and lengths of time before introducing different foods for patients.

My biggest fear is how much scar tissue is there from the band. I don't think there is a way to know until they actually do the surgery. My doctor said that a revision normally takes about 2 hours to perform.

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I had my surgery Friday and so far so good. I even went back to work yesterday. I was banded for 6 years and I was not easy on my band!! I was worried the shape it would be in and it did take a little longer to remove but my doc was very happy overall with how things went. Now 4 weeks Of liquids :( hope things go great for u as well !

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I am having band ('09) out to sleeve on Oct 7th. Besides tweaking the fills and never really getting it right, I started having gastritis this year. Overall Iost 30-40 pounds, twelve was the preop diets, at my very best, being obsessive, it was 50. I'm not where I want to be and started getting arthritis in my knees, too. I am hopeful that I will make out better this time.

Band07, you are back to work already?!?!! They put me in for a month off, can go back earlier if I want. But I remember with the band, going back 2 weeks later was a little bit too soon, very tiring.

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I am having band ('09) out to sleeve on Oct 7th. Besides tweaking the fills and never really getting it right' date=' I started having gastritis this year. Overall Iost 30-40 pounds, twelve was the preop diets, at my very best, being obsessive, it was 50. I'm not where I want to be and started getting arthritis in my knees, too. I am hopeful that I will make out better this time.

Band07, you are back to work already?!?!! They put me in for a month off, can go back earlier if I want. But I remember with the band, going back 2 weeks later was a little bit too soon, very tiring.[/quote']

I went back to work 4 days after my band, but plan on taking 2 weeks for my sleeve.

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I had band on a Friday and went back to work Monday and had no problems. I really could have used one more day this week . I'm a little sore today and pretty tired but I'm off tomorrow for the weekend so that should help. It worked out okay for me but I would probably recommend most people try for a week off.

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I had my band in 2010 and am around four stone lighter but no thanks to the band. We never reached a fill point between being able to eat anything and nothing going down. My hospital doesn't even offer bands anymore. So it's coming out and I'm having a sleeve revision on 10th October :-)

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