I had a gastric band after much deliberating on the 21 March 2013. All went well in the beginning and as far as weight loss is concerned it was a success, I went from 220lbs to 104lbs in two years. Then the band slipped (or at least that what I think happened) had to have it removed. I had it removed on 11th May 2015. Since then I put on 30lbs, at this weight I am still ok and within normal range although I do feel very fat. I want to have the sleeve, I will have to pay for it myself and I am wondering if the doctor will do it as I am with normal BMI at 25. I am very desperate and see no point in waiting until I have put all the weight back on. Is there anyone out there with similar situation.

Sorry to hear you had trouble with the band. I did as well and gained all of my weight back.

Hopefully your surgeon will be able to help.

Good luck to you!

I hope your surgeon helps with your situation. I agree I would want to do it before you gain a lot back and feel like you have to start over. Good luck and keep us posted!

The following comment is based solely on my own personal experience with the sleeve.

I feel for you. But my concern is that at your current weight I don't see how you wouldn't wind up with the sleeve post-op becoming terribly underweight.

I'm 13 months post-op and have lost 95 pounds and am now below my goal and trying to stay here without losing more weight. The sleeve really, really limits how much you can eat at one time. And when you're "done," you can't just put on the weight loss skids when you want to. It has taken me 5 months since reaching my weight loss to get to the point where I can regularly eat 1600 - 1700 calories a day, which is my maintenance calorie budget. And getting here took significant planning and snacking (not grazing!). In the meantime, I've lost another 10 pounds -- which, as it turns out, I like sitting at.

And then there's this: If you're one of the unlucky ones who has a WLS complication of some kind you won't have a big overweight buffer to tide you over while your body recovers from the complication.

These are the obvious reasons that surgeons don't do RnY or sleeve or other permanent WLS on patients who aren't already very overweight or obese.

Here is an alternate view. I had to remove my band due to complications also. It was removed in april and my sleeve was done in June. During that brief time I gained a huge amount of weight. i do believe that weight loss is slower and restriction is less as a revision patient. For example I could easily eat 1500 or more calories now at 3 months out. I do not know why that is but the sleeve is working for me because I am full very quickly but I don't have any problems eating anything. I don't know the answer to your question but please don't let yourself gain back too much weight. I also lost 100% of my excess weight and am now back to square 1 (although I am losing weight steadily). It just REALLY sucks to do this again!

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your views. I live in fear of getting fat again, life has been so much better for me being slim. I am also just turned 60 and apparently you need only 1500 calories a day to maintain. Without restriction I can't achieve this.