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All I can find about an FDA investigation is about an 800-get-slim billboard ad...  Is there something else going on, too??? 

May I ask why you're revising a Sleeve to an RNY, instead of going with a DS? Revising a Sleeve to a DS would be a much simpler operation, and would allow you to keep a fully-functional stomach---not to mention that the DS has the very best long-term, maintained weight-loss stats for all patients, but especially for those of us with a BMI greater than 50.

 I am very interest in hearing about your journey>>>>thanks 

After suspecting slippage I had an endoscopy. My gastroenterologist tells me my band is around my esophagus, not my stomach. I've had two weight loss surgeons tell me that my Realize band is in the right place, altough I see NO pouch but a distension above my band in my esophogas.

I'm leaning towards the former because either I feel absolutely no restriction or I'm regurgitating water and the slimy stuff in the middle of the night and have severe chest pains and can't breathe when there is "restriction". It's either feast or famine, so to speak.

My surgery was in 2008. I lost a total of 70 lbs (20 before surgery and 50 afterwards). That 50 pounds afterwards was over a 2 frikkin YEAR  PERIOD! In the past year I gained back 25. I am so discouraged when I see the small amounts other patients are eating and how fast they lose weight.

Has anyone else had this issue? Have you had revision or just had the damned useless thing removed? Thank you everyone.

 Robin,
What do you mean the beets would not go down.  Does food stick and not go down like with the band?  Allso, do you have to chew your food exceptionally well and take tiny baby bites?  I was hoping to avoid all this with RNY but it sounds like the same applies.  Am I right?

Hello I am scheduled first week for surgery in August
I remember went I went through mentally and emotionally when I had the sleeve.

Is it the same? 
Weight loss the same or diffrent? 
Is it easier since you have gone through it before?

Just asking for feedback?

Well I haven't hd your surgery but I can guess that she is putting you down for 8 hrs to make sure you have enough operating room time to take care of any extras they may have to do. If they short book the OR then it throws the whole schedule off for everybody else if they have to take more time for you, being a revision, they never know what they will find inside. It also gives them time in case they have to go open instead of lap.
I too have chronic back pain and take narcotic pain meds and am 61. I've had like 13,14 surgeries in the last several years and haven't had any problems with the anesthesia, they know how to work it out as long as they know all the drugs you are on, be sure to tell them any herbal supplements if you take them.
Hopefully your kids will jump on board but either way you do this for you!! Best of luck, you'll do just fine!

Hmmm can't your doc try doing something to minimize your scar tissue?  At 145 and 5'6 you are normal BMI.

Constant puking is no way to live.  I would have began stalking my doc to do something immediately.  You've been doing this (vomitting) for years - worry that you are doing harm so that you can take some action.

And yes there are ppl that must convert to RNY for relieve from reflux.  I don't know what your true issue is - at this point you know that you are not going from band to RNY, you are going from Band to Sleeve to pouch and bypass.  That is more scar tissue!

I truly hope you find a solution.  What you are going through seems horrible.

Best

Magnesium is not a stimulant.  That's why I use it. I don't get enough magnesium from my diet.
magnesium is one of the "miracle minerals" When taken too much - body do not absorb it and that will cause loose stools. 

Milk of Magnesium is bunch of chemicals with colors and flavors and stuff... I take just mag oxide..

Some people who gets really constipated tray to take mag citrate or other magnesium and complain that it is not working - the reason when it would not work - that their body get magnesium depleted and once they  take any - the body absorbs that - so nothing ends up in colon. 

BTW: mag does not cause cramping.   I take enough to go - easy go... fast - no pushing or straining.. just go... 2 min and I am in a and out of the bathroom... lol....

  VBG 1999 revision to a RNY!  I need all the advice and help I can get.  I have been trying to get a revision now for several years but I believe I started before I had gained enough weight or my co-morbidties just were not enough  not sure on that one.  I actually started my search 2 years ago and went through some testing and then the arogent young psychiatrist stopped that procedure.  I had to take these three very long tests that I passed but I guess I wasn't anwering his questions the way he wanted me to and he kept proding me till he got me angry and that didn't help me at all.  So I was denied.  I am now 5'2" and weigh 248 and have along  list of co-morbities.  I went to visit this new doctor last December and have been fighting with my Insurance Company because the hospital was not a provider and they had ok'd people in the past cause it is the closest place to go.  My insurance company finally ok'd the surgery.  I met with the Dr. Glas****'s office in December and must have forgot some of the things they told me.  I have one day of many tests on June 5th and an appointment  next week to see a gastroenterologist to schedule my EGD.  He needs to see my extensive medical records and lists of medications because I am disabled due to 3 failed back surgeries and take morphine daily and he will need to adjust the medication given for this test so I don't remember it - hopefully. 

My concern is about the actual revision being done Laproscopically if possible.  His nurse told me when she called me with the dates and times of the testing that she will be putting me down for an 8 hour surgery and I said WHAT?  I've read everything I can find online and the most I have seen in 4 hours - If they told me about this at my appointment in December I have forgotten it - what a thing to forget - right?  She also said I would have a drainage tube and a feeding tube.  When my testing is done I will have an appointment with the Doctor where I can ask him all these questions but I was just wondering if anyyone of you could calm my fears a little with what you may know.

I already know that no matter what I have to go through - I will do it.  I want to live a better quality of life and being in so much pain and not being on my feet for very long at a time I want to back out into the world.  I want to feel better and be better so any pain, discomfort or tubes will not keep me from going through what may help me get that better quality of life.  I have been overweight since 2nd grade and I'm 56 y/o old right now

I only wish someone could speak to my two kids and make them realize just how important this surgery is and then need to be in my life right now.  That's all a subject on it's own and I will leave it at that.

Any info anyone can give me will sure be appreciated.