I was so excited to go under the knife 2 weeks ago for my band to sleeve revision. My surgeon told me there would be a 15% chance that he would only take out the band, if there was too much scar tissue he wouldn't be able to do the sleeve in the same surgery. Unfortunately, I was in the 15%. I woke up and was utterly disappointed. Now I have to wait 3 months to let my stomach heal from all the inflammation that was where my band was. The surgeon said he "feels pretty confident" he can still do the sleeve. Has anyone gone through this? I'm just so down about all of this, and of course all I want to do is overeat. :-(

Edited January 22, 20179 yr by Stacey99

Try to channel your disappointment into making positive change with your weight now. Start eating low carb (or whatever works for you) and challenge yourself to lose as much weight as you can in these next three months. No matter how everything works out, you will feel better and be in a better place than you are right now. The six months of "waiting" that I had to do pre-op was the best thing that ever happened to me. I lost 99 pounds by the day of the surgery and put myself in the best position to have a successful surgery and post-op experience. You can do the same thing!!

Good luck!

I had to wait two months between my band removal and the gastric sleeve. This was planned from the beginning, as my surgeon won't do a conversion in one go. i did gain about 6 pounds during that waiting time, but the time went by pretty quickly. I'm 4 weeks post op and doing great. This is all worth it so hang in there! I'd had two bands and a hiatal hernia and still got my sleeve surgery done! It's such a different experience. I love the difference.

Im having a revision from lapband to sleeve and hiatal hernia repair at the same time on February 8

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I had my band removal and sleeve same day 12 29 16

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How are ypu doing?

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