My LapBand was removed in June/2018 and my stomach was not healthy enough to do the sleeve. Inflammation, erosion and very thinned walls. The next day i was rushed back to the hospital and sent back into emergency surgery because a hole opened where the buckle had been. A month recovery and a couple months of trying to get back into my routine. I am working towards getting the sleeve again. I had a Endoscopy that went very well except for seeing some food particles in my stomach. So my surgeon wants to do a Gastric Emptying study before he agrees to do the sleeve. I'm excited and nervous but just working hard day by day to stay on track. No matter what his decision ends up being i am just ready to be at a healthy weight. Anyone else have such a hard time with the revision ?

35 minutes ago, BANDED10.3.06 said:

My LapBand was removed in June/2018 and my stomach was not healthy enough to do the sleeve. Inflammation, erosion and very thinned walls. The next day i was rushed back to the hospital and sent back into emergency surgery because a hole opened where the buckle had been. A month recovery and a couple months of trying to get back into my routine. I am working towards getting the sleeve again. I had a Endoscopy that went very well except for seeing some food particles in my stomach. So my surgeon wants to do a Gastric Emptying study before he agrees to do the sleeve. I'm excited and nervous but just working hard day by day to stay on track. No matter what his decision ends up being i am just ready to be at a healthy weight. Anyone else have such a hard time with the revision ?

Speedy recovery ?

Thank you!!

My band was removed April 2018, and I had to wait for my dilated esophagus to shrink back to normal (I was told minimum of 3 months). While it was healing, I had to go through the program again including nutrition and psychologist. I finally had my sleeve done 2 weeks ago (11/27). No problems so far. Good luck.

Band removed 8/28. Did an upper gi last month and there was food still in my stomach after 15 hours of fasting. Surgeon said that it could be gastroparesis (what you're getting the gastric emptying test to check for), but if it is, Sleeve would still be ok. Waiting to get sleeved next week, 12/18

You all made me feel so much better! I read up on people getting the sleeve who have gastroparesis and it actually mostly talks about how the sleeve can help “cure” or improve someone’s gastroparesis. So even if I have a small problem with this I’m hopeful it doesn’t deter them from approving me! Yay! Thank you all for your responses!