Just found out - Now Im LOST and SCARED!

[lisa_hawaii 1]

So I just found out that my band slipped. I am 6 months post op --- with only 30 lbs weight loss.... I have had issues from the start! Too tight, too lose, too this too that!! Now I cant keep anything down and the worst part is Im not even losing any weight :tongue:

So I have a Dr appt this afternoon to get my "options" which I would assume it is to correct it or remove it... but what are the pros and cons about either. If I chose to fix it, will this happen again?

I know for a FACT I will not be able to lose weight without it!!! Not right away at least! If I could, I would have before I even got this thing!

Anyone who may have opinions, thoughts, suggestion.. simular situations... polease let em know as right now everyone that I know who had this is doing GREAT and I feel very alone!!!

Lisa

[IndioGirl55 32]

So I just found out that my band slipped. I am 6 months post op --- with only 30 lbs weight loss.... I have had issues from the start! Too tight, too lose, too this too that!! Now I cant keep anything down and the worst part is Im not even losing any weight :tongue:

So I have a Dr appt this afternoon to get my "options" which I would assume it is to correct it or remove it... but what are the pros and cons about either. If I chose to fix it, will this happen again?

I know for a FACT I will not be able to lose weight without it!!! Not right away at least! If I could, I would have before I even got this thing!

Anyone who may have opinions, thoughts, suggestion.. simular situations... polease let em know as right now everyone that I know who had this is doing GREAT and I feel very alone!!!

Lisa

Lisa

Sometime just an unfill for a while will allow the band to go back into place

Good luck at your dr appt..

[socalgal3 4]

I had my slip surgically repaired last year. They do say that if you have a slip, there is a greater chance you will slip again. I haven't slipped again(yet!). My last flouro a few weeks ago showed the band in good position. I have reached goal, so there is life after a slip! Just be careful and follow your docs advice. I hope all goes well for you!

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

About 85% of the time an unfill and liquids for a few weeks fixes a slip.

Good luck to you!

[Manatee 3]

My slip was just surgically repaired. It really wasn't a big thing, and I'm recovering much faster this time. My doc says that he has never seen a band slip a second time after a surgical repair, and that's why he recommends going in and fixing them rather than using the unfill-and-wait method.

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

My slip was just surgically repaired. It really wasn't a big thing, and I'm recovering much faster this time. My doc says that he has never seen a band slip a second time after a surgical repair, and that's why he recommends going in and fixing them rather than using the unfill-and-wait method.

Hmmm... I'm not sure I understand the thinking behind that one.

It's not the sutures that hold the band in place long term, it is adhesions. The problem with slips is that often times the adhesions are torn and with scarring, scars are never quite as strong as they were the first time. This is the reason that once someone slips they stand a greater chance for a 2nd slip. The adhesions are not of the same quality when they are growing from the same place a 2nd time.

Some slips require surgical repair, most do not. Most docs do not put a patient through a 2nd surgery when an unfill will do the same thing.

[Manatee 3]

Hmmm... I'm not sure I understand the thinking behind that one.

Well, he's the one with the medical degree and 30+ years bariatric surgical experience, so I'll listen to him.

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

Well, he's the one with the medical degree and 30+ years bariatric surgical experience, so I'll listen to him.

I never claimed or inferred you shouldn't listen to him.

Other docs with the same experience merely disagree. That was my only point, that and trying to understand his thinking.