All I hear and see is band over bypass.  I wonder  if the stats are better with a band over a pouch than it is around a full stomach.  Years ago I knew quite a few and they had disappointing results.  Technique or something may have changed because there are a couple of pple here on OH who seem to be raving about the B.O.B.

And it is the "Lap Band" people seem to be desiring because it is what Carnie has.  I've seen no mention of  the other brands.

I love, love, love - did I say love Jennifer Holiday who has had the Fobi for many years and not once did I consider have the RNY with Fobi pouch.  The first surgery I knew was the duodenal switch.  It is odd the way people work .

We are all taking a chance but knowing what I know now, seeing what I see now - I would not choose the band.  I do however hope that whoever gets adjustable gastric banding will be complication free and successful at losing their excess weight.

I, me, with my sleeve can choose to not lose anymore and get fat again - it is that simple! I can eat and I love food.  What I have to do is work - there is no revision for me again.  I can fail any surgery including might I say the DS.  I have wicked ways, sly ways with eating.  I will have to watch me forever.

Yesterday I wanted to be my very own science project again.  I took my vitamins and waited and waited until I would get hungry - I never did, I never do but I still eat.  Not hungry but I still eat .  I mean I have to eat but munch, crunch before and after lunch I do not.  I WILL eat green eggs and ham sam I am, I will.  I will eat it in a truck, on a plane, train . . .  well you get me.  I need adjustable brain banding which I ain't to shamed to tell I have gotten over the years.  It works when you work it!  I ate chicken at 8pm and glory to my sleeve I still was not hungry.  I love my sleeve but I gotta be careful because I love my food in spells better.

Wow, Carnie and the B.O.B..  Pre-banding she did look like the old Wilson Philips Carnie.  I guess I would have done anything . . . no, if I was going to do it again and I could it would be the DS all the way baby.  That is the chance I would take. 

Edited to say that I, me would not ever have any additional weight loss surgery.  I got what I got - right now I really love my sleeve but even if say one day it changed and I got in a rut I would never ever have any additional WLS.  I could overeat on a little stomach as well as a big one.  I've got to do the work.  I just have to do it or I will be what I despise.  Sorry!

Ugh!!

Good day to all!

As far as I understood it - she had the band since her stoma was open - and her pouch was not really a pouch but more like a very long tube-like stomach. 
I do agree with you re revision - if I need revision - I most likely would opt for DS... but maybe that was not available to her.  Revision to DS is much more complicated and not many docs do it. Also the recovery is much longer, and from what I saw - she wanted to be able to recover fast and even be able to perform 3-4 weeks post op. (that did not happen)
And who knows - maybe she will do well this time?  I do doubt that - seeing that her DH already teased her with toast with jelly...  and the only reason she did not have what he had that she was on liquid only... With her hate to exercise, and DH like that, and small children, I doubt she will be full term success..She probably may lose some weight and unless she changes how she sees food and exercise - she will be back to where she is now... or close...

I believe her band was free for advertisement purposes!!     LOL and I doubt we will see her sliming or puking on her new show!

Lol. Yeah they'll edit out the typical band life parts of it!

God I loved reading this, this is exactly how i have maintained, I use my brain band, what an excellent statement..
 I once asked my surgeons nurse if my surgeon ever did an 'additional' surgery after failed weight loss with Rny, she said, it's so much more dangerous and would not recommend it for anyone....thanks for posting this, i did watch the show 'the doctors' that she was on and announced she had banding over gastric bypass....

 Carnie is a spokesperson for Allergan -- it was free -- she's an advertisement.  

If she has complications it will quietly be removed -- she'll disappear for a while and come back with a DS?  

She's fought following any rules since her first surgery so I don't see her having any success with this either. What she needs is some serious long term psych treatment before she can ever lose weight. Her weight problems seem to stem directly to her dysfunctional childhood. Her father had psych and weight problems too and until she faces all that mental garbage she'll stay fat.

 Then again, if it's true her stoma was wide open, then she was probably hungry all the time. Which means she was in the same place as all of us were pre-op when we couldn't diet successfully either.

People are so judgmental about being overweight. Keep in mind just because you see someone for 30 min. a week on a reality show edited for drama, doesn't mean you really know what is going on with them.

AnyTHING anyONE needs/needs to do to get/stay HEALTHY has MY support-be they a "celebrity" or not.

Am I a bit jealous of Carnie's money, and think "If I had her $$, I could stay at goal and not have to WORK at it"?.. SURE I think that sometimes..but obviously it's not true..Maybe I think she "owes me something", since she was my hero, all those years ago, when she started me on the road to WLS..

We all have our struggles. I just don't air  my crap for all the world to see

Oh newbie, if only you knew...