Hi, I am Lisa in Dallas, I had the lapland in 4.2006. I went from 220 down to 140...it took about a year. I then went in for a EGD as I had been vomiting and the dr. removed my fill. I slowly gained the weight back and am now at 230 or so, I can't bear to get on the scale. Thinking of getting it removed and doing the gastric sleeve. Any suggestions?

did the doctor find something wrong when he did the EGD that made him remove the fill?

did the doctor find something wrong when he did the EGD that made him remove the fill?

Yes, what did the EGD show??

Unless there was some sort of damage, couid you not have done saline replaced?

Good morning. I too had the Lapband surgery back in 2006. I went from 298lbs. to 155lbs. It took about 9-10 months. Unfortunately my band protruded through my skin and busted through my stomach. I had to go thru emergency surgery to have it removed. Once removed, within 2yrs I'm back at 220lbs. But as I type this message I'm sitting here on my way to be SLEEVED......????????????????????????????????????????Yayyyyyyyy.............I refused to go back to Fatville.

I got a fill yesterday...going to give this another true shot. liquids for 7 days...truly excited to start journey again.

I got a fill yesterday...going to give this another true shot. Liquids for 7 days...truly excited to start journey again.

All I can say is, as the band got adjusted, in stages, I had to get adjusted as well as far as the foods I ate, how I ate them, and my whole mental outlook on what was going on.

It was the hardest and most difficult phase of this Lap Band surgery...made plenty of mistakes, and paid for each one of them....but with each mistake and paying the consequences, I had to examine myself and ask "What am I doing wrong"

And sometimes doing it more than once finally made me realize what is was that I needed to change, or stop doing all together.

Very difficult when you've spent your whole life doing things wrong that you thought were Ok....

For me, it was the first year that was difficult...then I began to find that "Groove" and after all this time it just keeps getting better.

But there were some very hard lessons, and some very hard personal, lifestyle changes.