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I keep wavering between both procedures but now after reading all the horror stories about the band I'm now leaning more toward the sleeve, just worried & scared that something will go wrong since there's risks no matter what type of surgery you're having. I guess I'll keep reading all the success stories so I don't keep changing my mind! Is is true that you can never eat the same, have to change the foods you used to eat, do you have nausea at all, does the food "get stuck, what about heartburn"? Any feedback is much appreciated!

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I guess my first question is - why do you want to eat the same as before? Isn't that how we all got here. No surgery is magical.

After healing and following the NUT's dietary guidelines you will be able to consume most any food - doesn't mean you should. You will need to work a maintenance program forever. FOREVER.

Sleeve surgery is not much riskier than lapband, still laprorscopic. Some people have nausea, I have not had any at 17 days out. I had heartburn from the marinara sauce brand in the ricotta bake I made - so I will avoid that for awhile. I am healing yet and it's all individual on how food choices go, some may have intolerance to certain foods initially and maybe even for quite some time. Some cannot tolerate how rice expands in the stomach, some have to always toast their bread, etc. These are minor non-deal breakers because just HOW important are a couple food items compared to gaining your health back?

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The true question is, what surgeon did you find that is willing to do a LapBand, and why would you want them to operate on you...

It is pretty much standard that bariatric surgeons do not preform LapBands anymore, they maintain them, or remove them to convert to either a sleeve or bypass.

Any surgeon that still preforms LapBands, would not be a surgeon I would use.

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You'd really be crazy to get a lap band. I'd say they get taken out more than they're put in easily by a ratio of at least 25:1 if not much much more.

That said there is reasons to get a band but very very few. The best reason I can think of would be as revisional surgery. For example a band over a bypass.

Just as a reference point I work for a high volume bariatric surgeon. In a year we do around 600-800 sleeves 200-300 bypasses, around 100-150 lap band removals and maybe 3-4 lap bands.

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