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Ho w are you doing Vamp?  Hope all is well for you.  Post a line or two and let us know how things are going with your healing, hunger or hopefully lack of!  Re. the port pain, I never had any after about 1 month and I understand mine was sore longer than others.  I got so used to my bump that I actually miss it now, LOL!  Corliss

You already know you can do extremely well with restriction alone and no malabsorption so I think a sleeve is a great idea.

Banding... sooo much to say.  Re-ops are 30-50% in the first five years depending on which study you read.  It has a LOT of potential complications, the weight loss is harder, slower, and at 5 years not great.

The sleeve affords you many fewer long term potential risks and complications.  Also, I just heard a stat from my doc's office a few days ago.  My doc went to a conference in the US and the stats for successful band replacement or repositioning is about 30%.

The sleeve... I love it.  I was banded, got to goal, and couldn't take it anymore so I revised to a sleeve.  The difference in how easy this is vs. a band is night and day.

I believe you that you did not cause your slip, if you lost 200# you clearly knew how to work a band.  Slips are not always the fault of anyone, they happen.  That's how it works.

The sleeve is just plain easier.  No maintenance, no fills/unfills, no slips, erosion, none of that.  You have surgery and you are done for life.  To me a sleeve feels exactly like before I ever had WLS but I just get full faster.  No puking, sliming, or other assorted ways of stoma spewing.  You have no stoma, just a small stomach.

You couldn't pay me to get another band.  They just have too many long term problems, exactly like what you experienced.

Stop and think about how many are refusing to band people anymore.  Many docs within the US, hospitals in Sweeden, and the entire country of Chile is doing away with banding and switching to sleeves and bypass.