Thank you so much for sharing! That's really good to hear that she has maintained her weight loss for that long. My original surgery was laparoscopic, and the surgery will also be laparoscopic. I have friends who have had revisions with both their original and their revision being open, there was additional screen but it did not prevent the doctors from feeling confident on operating.

My aunt had it almost 9 years ago after chaining weight back from bypass she lost all her weight and has stayed there since. I'm going to see a surgeon on Monday November 8th I had the bypass in February of 2003 and have kept my weight off but for the last year I'm menopausal and can't seem to lose no matter what I'm steadily gaining!! I'm scared with my Bypass being open they won't do it they will say to much scar tissue! Was your bypass open or laparoscopic and so you know my aunt has never been malnourished she always taken her vitamins.

I hope you are revcovering well! I understand your concern, but resleeving can have a boatload of complications with leaks etc., so just consider yourself fortunate an angel was watching above....keep healing, move a bit and keep going

75 centimeters sounds wonderful. What was the name of your surgeon? I'm alright with 100, but I'm not interested in the ridiculous lengths I've read about on occasion.

Picture ten McDonald's Quarter Pounder sandwiches. That is what you could have stuffed into your old stomach at every meal before your sleeve was done. After VSG, half of a Quarter Pounder would have been a huge meal. Even with your stretched out sleeve, you probably could not eat more than one sandwich at a meal. Going from somewhere between 28 and 40 oz stomach to a 2 or 3 ounce stomach was a huge change.

If your sleeve is now 6 ounces, putting it back to 3 ounces would not have made any noticeable change in capacity. We all learn how to eat smaller amounts of food more frequently.

It is probably amazing that we learn how to use our tiny stomachs to hold enough food to gain back our weight. But about half of weight loss surgery patients have regained 50 pounds by five years after surgery. It is normal to regain about 10% of the excess weight. That happens even with careful diet and exercise.

I have regained and lost several times in the 14 years since my surgery. I have told myself that I am on a diet for life. I can eat a lot of food at one time, if I let myself do it. Just because I can do that does not mean that I should do it. Every day, I make a commitment to track my food, to weigh myself, and to get in my exercise.

I am 73. I joined Weigh****chers and became a lifetime member in 1973. I would get to my goal, stay there for about a week and a half and then start gaining again. That happened over and over again. I could not figure out why I could not lose and stay there. For me, the final solution seemed to be weight loss surgery. That was wonderful for about three years. But when I started to gain again, I went back to Weigh****chers.

Even with surgery, a diet plan, and an exercise plan, I am overweight, but no longer obese. I am currently struggling with 12 pounds over my goal weight. And it is a struggle. Surgery does help and you now have malabsorption of fat that will last a lifetime. Carbs will still be absorbed and used by your body.

The important thing is not the size of your sleeve, it is what you put into that sleeve. If he had tightened up the sleeve, I think a few cheat meals would have stretched it back out and we all have cheat meals. You should discuss your concerns with the surgeon and get his take on what he did. Perhaps he should refund part of what you paid for, but that is something you would have to take up with him.