The other lady's suggestions are great.  I just wanted to ask if you have seen a therapist or found one you connect with.  I am trying to find one that I like because I have huge food issues that this surgery won't be taking away!  I too always felt out of control with eating and that food ran my entire life.  That's such an unhealthy way to view food... like the opposite of being anorexic, instead of being scared of food, we are letting it run our lives. 

Along with setting up a plan for eating and exercise to get you back on track, seeking out a therapist (if you aren't already seeing one) to help you deal with your food issues seems like a smart idea. 

Good luck with getting back on track... you still have so much to be proud of and I have seen many people on OH that have gained some weight back after surgery but then changed their life and their habits and lost it again... AND kept it off!  You can do this, you just have to get yourself back in the right frame of mind. :-)

hmm... I am questioning what is goin on here, you offered very little in the way of details. my insurance wouldn't even consider revision surgery unless I was 5 years out and considered a failure, why then did you get a gastric sleeve 1 year after having lap band surgery? this seems very odd to me.

also from your photos and weights posted, you do not look morbidly obese or even obese to be getting surgery. maybe overweight, but to warrant getting cut open and surgery  seems very extreme to me in your case. most people who get these surgeries are morbidly obese and are prob. going to die without it, why does that not seem like the case with you?

I am struggling with the idea of getting revision surgery and you are getting one every few years, there is something going on here that both you and doctors aren't even addressing.

Hello-

I am glad I found this group.  I had mu original surgery in July of 2007- which was ok for 5 years- originally lost over 80 lbs.- then started with the acid reflux problems, bad digestion, throwing up, etc.  Over the first 5 years I think I maybe had 2 fills that were good- others too tight, some I had to go to the xray dept to have because the port had changed position.

Last June underwent a revision surgery.  Well, it's 10 months later and I am now having the same symptoms again.  Underwent a routine endoscopy by a different doctor who told me to get in touch with my surgeon.  Called and said I am having problems and want to come in.  Of course, I am made to feel as if I have done something wrong.....and being told that maybe it's acid reflux due to diet....I said it is a different feeling- like I had last year before the revision where I actually had the food not digest causing me unbearable reflux....

I am at a loss.  Thought of trying to see if I am a candidate for the sleeve, but now thinking by pass may be my only option.  Just would like to feel good again.....

People tend not to like it if you go off the typical Dr prescribed diet for WLS.

Joe Cross did a 60 day juice feast/fast that reset his body. It's extreme but I have a co-worker doing the full 60 days, only 5 days left, he looks great and feels great. I've only done it for a 2 week time period. You can Google Joe Cross and reboot your life.

Of course if you dumb on juice it may not be for you. I had to start slow and work myself up to being able to drink a full pint. I had a VSG and we don't have a dumping issues as much as RNY but I know some RNY'ers that can drink fresh juice, mind you it's fresh juice only nothing processed allowed.

Ok, I will probably get slammed for this and I do not know your medical history but have you looked into Juicing? or heard about Reboot your life with Joe Cross? I know people who have had migraines and they go away with juicing as well as the weight.

Hi Travis,
sounds like you are having similar problems with the band. well at least you lost  over 150 lbs. I lost 60 and gained it back and lost some of it then repeat ad nauseam. so the success you have had with the weight loss and band is different. right now I am 5-10 lbs away from being at my highest weight.

the part about the band suddenly being super tight, I have been dealing with problems like that with my stomach and band since Feb 18th of this year. Now I did have problems with this band in general it is either too open and I can eat just about everything and am hungry, or I am so tight I get stuck and have constant heartburn or throw up. so all in all band is not working for me, never has worked right but this is different, the sudden pain and tightness.

 ok you may not know this but for a woman with a lap band it tightens during certain times of the month when we are bloated. so on Feb 18th that is what I figured this was, when that happens I have to have more soft foods. as a week went on, the band should have been returning to normal, instead it got tighter and tighter. I could not get down my medications, I could only get down liquids for 3 days, even tryin to eat apple sauce, diet pudding and jello hurt. felt like I was eating rocks. I lost 16 lbs, which sadly I have gained back plus another 15 since band is now wide open. so in addition to the pain and discomfort, I am belching and burping all the time. even when I drink water.

I was doubled over in pain most of the time. I went to the ER where they removed all the fluid from my band on March 1st they did xray and said lap band looked in proper position, so they thought wasn't slipped but to be sure I would need more tests.  had barium swallow with fluroscope done Monday April 1st, no slipped or eroded band, but to be sure they wanted to do surgery. In fact they said basically if it was slipped/eroded I needed surgery, but if it wasn't I would need surgery to remove it because my body was 'not tolerating the band.'

I felt this was rather aggressive because they wanted to do an endoscopy to see what was wrong and while I was out do the surgery to remove band as well as do gastric bypass RNY. I decided to get a 2nd opinion and see a gastroenterogist instead of a weight loss surgeon who seemed to be pushing me to get surgery so they could profit, instead of find the cause of my pain. at first  after opening the band my stomach felt a twinge better, and at least I was open now and could eat but still the pain no matter what I eat, junk food, lean fish/meats, veggies, just pain in my stomach, and belching burping.

saw this new doctor and had an endoscopy done on April 11th, no uclers, no band slip or erosion. some bile in stomach so he ordered gastric emptying tests. got that done on 24th of April. they gave me oatmeal which I hate and normally gag on, and sadly was dry heaving and in such pain before test. results of that were fine. doctor says to me 'no news is good news.'

no it isn't. my stomach hurts now for almost 3 months non stop. I have lost 16 lbs and gained back 15 more on top of that. I am burping and belching like a pig. it is so loud it sounds demonic. it is embarrassing. an ulcer would be a fairly easy fix/cure. if the band was slipped or eroded I could justify removing the band ASAP. but it's not. so now I don't know what to do either and sounds like we are in a very similar proverbial boat.
here is what I think is goin on with you and me both. our bodies are rejecting the band. are stomach lining and esophagus for whatever reason are inflamed and causing pain/discomfort. for me luckily (or maybe that is unluckily since I am gaining) I can get food down, but I am in pain 24/7. they are not sure but now sending me monday to get CT Scan.

so I am curious how you are doing? what you think is going on? do you take NSAIDs for pain because my doctors warned me not to take them, that those and other medications upset lining of stomach even if nothing shows up on scans/tests. do you have barrett's esophagus?  I am curious if you get the band removed if you will get some other surgery and if so what? add me as a friend so I can see how you are doing and we can swap band stories.

 

 I was put on a medication for migraines  called depracot.  I was warned before hand that weight gain was a side effect of this drug, so I was very careful about what I ate and exercised religiously>   I still gained 40lb!  l'm so angry with myself and the mediation didn't even help with the headaches>   Is it possible to lose the weight.  It has been 10 years since my RNY I'm not even sure of the rules anymore.  Hope someone out there can help me.  Thanks

All that is nessary for the  triumph of Evil is that good men do nothing. "Edmund Burk"

How do people treat you now that you have had weight loss surgery and lost a lot of weight? I guess discrimination comes to mind --I wonder how you handle the comments.