Day 6 and I'm feeling human again. Man what a ROUGH recovery. Between the complications with my surgery/revision, traveling 14 hours to get home, and having a massive cold and horrific cough/bronchitis.. I really wasn't sure how much more I could take. I'm so much better today. I'm struggling with fluids still though. I'm so full of mucus and phlegm that I literally feel like I'm STUFFED and it's hard to sip on to of that. That'll be my focus today. And as of this morning I'm down to my SW 219.

For those of you with a band and think it's fine, that what I was thinking too.. I had ZERO symptoms of any problems.. my sleeve took 5 hours because of how bad my scar tissue..

Yikes! You're having a tough time lady. When the cold leaves you'll get a lot of relief. How are you feeling today?

Did your surgeon removed your scar tissue? I don't think my dr did. He is very well known, and an excellent reputation but he only does the surgery if there isn't too much scar tissue. If there is, he removes it and makes you wait 6 months. Everything I read, talked about Dr's removing it.

I hope you're feeling better.

On 7/20/2017 at 2:37 AM, kateeryn said:

Yikes! You're having a tough time lady. When the cold leaves you'll get a lot of relief. How are you feeling today?

I'm sorry, I just saw this reply.. I'm three weeks out today and I am on the road to recovery Much better now that before.. Still struggling to get fluids down, and really can't eat yet.. but it's really awesome to finally not feel hungry! I haven't felt full in so long! My band I always felt stuck, instead of full..

On 7/20/2017 at 1:46 PM, larta said:

Did your surgeon removed your scar tissue? I don't think my dr did. He is very well known, and an excellent reputation but he only does the surgery if there isn't too much scar tissue. If there is, he removes it and makes you wait 6 months. Everything I read, talked about Dr's removing it.

I hope you're feeling better.

My surgeon did remove the scare tissue.. it was so bad that you couldn't even see my band (I have the video) .. and he removed it from my liver and spleen as well. Slow healing but thankful to have that garbage out of my body

My surgeon did remove the scare tissue.. it was so bad that you couldn't even see my band (I have the video) .. and he removed it from my liver and spleen as well. Slow healing but thankful to have that garbage out of my body

Glad to hear you are better! My surgeon also said I had scar tissue on my liver & spleen from the band and it took him forever to get it out. Thank God that trash is out of us now!! Best of luck!

Band to VSG revision:5/23/17

HW: 315

Pre-op: 294

SW: 283

CW: 246

GW: 175