I am THINKING ABOUT A REVISION at 6 years

She has had a ton of problems with the band if you've read her previous posts.
Nana- YOU have a lot to learn! Atleast get the facts straight! The lapband is the least effective WLS. Don't steer ppl in the wrong direction. Stop defending something that has caused you many problems and has not gotten you to your weightloss goal.
I really wonder if you know you made a wrong decision with the band and are trying to convince yourself otherwise.

Oh Naomi, I've been living a personal hell with a lapband for 4 years. It's been so bad and I gave it a chance over and over again. IT DID NOT WORK FOR ME.

The band may have been your salvation and I congratulate you on that, but please, please don't be so sarcastic about a surgery that can change someone's life for the worst, like it happened to me.

I felt embarassed when I read this post because now all the newbies that will be reading this thread will see you in a different light.

Take care

I'm kinda new been reading every surgery for a few months and I'm getting SLEEVE in a few weeks  I have to say that my first visit to the doctors was only for the Band and after talking to him about it he wanted to tell me about the other 3 surgery's RNY,SLEEVE and DS because the band is not what he suggests and told me why!!! witch I don't really have to tell you because YOU ALREADY KNOW!!!  and if you want to pretend that you don't know what I'm talking about, go read the revision forum!!! and not to be mean like you or anything but I didn't  understand why you would sit there and write all that IF YOU WHERE NOT MAD ABOUT SOMETHING  then I realized   that if I've gotten wls 6 years ago and had problems and was still a size 12 and all the other people that had the other surgery's and revision lost all the weight they wanted and plus more!!!!!!!!!!  I BE F%$K#!    PIST TOO!!!
so I wanted to let you know that I understand don't worry!!!

 don't bother answering back because I know your going to only say stupid S%#*t and embarrass yourself for like the the 47Th time today because your trying to make your self believe that your happy and that you made the right choice ...... just change your name start the revision like you been trying to avoid and lose the rest of your weight  AND START EATING LIKE YOU BEEN DREAMING ABOUT!!!
BUT before you decide what surgery you really want you need to do Lots of research on them it seems to me that you don't know so much about them only what they are called  that's always a good start

Well said!!.....now I am off to work

 I think I am pretty satisfied and far from jealous.....I think I wear a size 12 well....

 So how is the sleeve a new surgery? I think you need to check your facts. The sleeve is a gastrectomy. Which has been performed since 1881.

They just realized that cancer and ulcer patients, who had a gastrectomy, experienced the wonderful side effect of weight loss and hunger reduction.

Sleeve patients have more decades of scientific data of the long term effects of our gastrectomy than any other form of weight loss surgery.


I'm glad I could help clear that up for you :)

Thank you Journey of Jean....You said exactly what I was going to.....

Jean, I am very aware of gastrectomies :), my father had his stomach removed back in 1968 due to ulcers, he died a year later, and I remember him not being able to eat most foods, although the gastrectomy has been around a long time, the Sleeves technique has been altered, if was the same technique..surgeons would not document it as having UNKNOWN LONG TERM EFFECTS.

 I think you may need to speak to a few internists. :)

The gastrectomy performed on me is not any different than my doc would have done if a cancer patient came to him. Except that perhaps their tissue would have been sent off to labs. While my beautiful healthy tummy was disposed of.

My American doctors also outlined the decades of known effects to me. You are just misinformed about unknown long term effects. 

It's ok :)

I wouldn't expect you to know about this. I only learned about it when I went through the procedure and spoke to my American and Mexican doctors. Both of whom were excellent.

You might want to be a  little more worried about karma.  When you've been successful at losing weight, especially for a lengthy period of time, its really easy to forget how hard it was getting there, forget how it felt to be overweight.  Some sneaking superiority comes into play because you have found success and "risen above."  Here's the thing though, it can get taken away in a snap.  Obviously not tomorrow or even next year, but you don't know what lies around the corner for you - depression, pregnancy, divorce, trauma.  You just don't know.  What comes around ALWAYS goes around.  I have a feeling the unkind things you are dishing on everyone here for either the sake of your superiority or just to stir things up, might really bite you in the ass.  Just a thought.