46 pounds in 3 months and 10 ten days is AWESOME!

Really, I know you are feeling frustrated because you want to lose faster. I totally get that, as does probably everyone here! But, honestly, you are doing really well. With my sleeve I think I averaged about 10-15 pounds a month in the honeymoon phase. And I was heavier than you to begin with! You are losing almost 15 pounds a month with your revision! You could lose NOTHING this coming month and you will still have lost more in your first four months after sleeve surgery than I did. Don't compare yourself to the outliers that lose 20 pounds a month. That isn't the norm.

You've got this - you are really off to a wonderful start. You'll get there!!

I lost a little bit with the band before giving up on it completely, but gained it back with interest. Before I went in for sleeve consultation, I had gone up to 250 lbs. So far it's been 3 months and 10 days, and as of today I've lost only 46.5 lbs. My surgeon thinks I'm at the higher end of weight loss for revision so far. I'm hoping that I haven't lost muscle to add to the amount lost. My clothes are quite a bit looser but not as much as I expected. I definitely expected more actual weight loss on the scale at this point. I just wish I knew the mechanism behind what's happening so that I wouldn't be so hard on myself. When I get discouraged, it makes me want to eat the wrong things.

This is a great question and I hope someone can chime in with some solid answers. Just completely speculating here, but I've always thought that the weight loss was slower with revisions surgeries because most patients have already lost a lot of weight (or lost and regained weight) when they do a revision. You know how like even before bariatric surgery, when you would diet the weight would come off quickly at first but then slow down significantly. And if you switched from one diet to another, it would still be a slower weight loss than those that started out with the second diet to begin with... (I'm not sure if I wrote that in a way that makes sense.)

I'm revising from a sleeve to a loop DS and my surgeon told me the weight loss would be slow, but hopefully steady. I'm sure there are exceptions and everyone is different, but I'm curious to better understand why weight loss tends to be much slower with revisions too.

Try not to worry to much about the honeymoon thing... that might be more a virgin bariatric surgery phenomenon. Just keep trying your best and following doctor's instructions and your weight will land wherever it will land. Hopefully it land in a place where you are happy and comfortable, or at the very least in a place that you feel better than where you were before the revision.

has anyone had this done? I have been told that it is pretty much the same procedure as the RNY. this is what the dr is having to process this procedure under in order to get it covered under my insurance. I guess im just wanting to know how it has worked out for you. has it stopped your acid reflux? lost a significant amount of weight? hows the mal absorption?

weird things to be worried I guess. just in a funk that I have to have this done! I think only because I have had a surgery every yr since 2015 (vsg 2015, gall bladder removed 2016, tumor removed from uterus 2017, and npw this one in 2018)

I personally would not go with the sleeve after having the band. The sleeve is a great surgery if it is a first time WLS, but when it comes to going from band to sleeve I have seen numerous times folks had to revise to the bypass due to excessive acid causing GERD/reflux etc. You do not want to stay on a PPI for the rest of your life.

I myself wanted to get the sleeve when I was going for my band removal, but after years of dealing with the heartburn/reflux from the band I ended up not being a good candidate after going to my surgeons seminar. Went with the bypass and woke up heartburn free. Also, when I was having my band removed and revising to the bypass my surgeon found damage done to the top of my stomach due to the band.

For me the band to bypass has been great.

I noticed you are in RI. Can I ask who your surgeon is? I had my revision done in RI and my surgeon was Dr. Pohl.