ive been banded 18 months my band has always been tighasht and it never had any more than 2 mls in it ,and yes i did lose the weight but recently a doctor discovered my band is to high and my astrophogus has been stretched because thats were the food was going ive now been advised to have the band removed and im not happy i dont know if i can keep the weight of without my band has anyone had this problem:help:

Pauline that is horrible. Have you talked to the surgeon who performed the operation? Can he just reposition it?

Valerie

it cant be repositioned because my astrophagus needs time to re pair itself as it has been used as a stomach my surgeon says it looks fine to him but i have had 3 other opinions which all said needs removed asap

Have you asked about being rebanded though? Like, can your esophagus be given time to heal and normalise and then a new band placed?