If you've been banded for a year+ and having complications...Please share!

Fat Tuesday! That was a sign! :-(

Hugs!

All problems I have had were my own doing. I would band again in a heartbeat. NO ISSUES

BANDED 2009 and doing FINE.

What problems do you have, that are of your own doing ?

Over eating too fast getting stuck. Eating sugary slider foods. Not measuring. Grazing. All the bad stuff I did before I got the band. Before I got the band I would eat everything fast, burgers, pizza, all the bad stuff. I was a notorious binge eater.

Slider foods are the Devil, but sometimes they are the only thing that actually make it down our esophagus. You can eat some fast food if you learn to modify it, for example you could have a burger wrapped in lettuce instead of a bun at any fast food place. You can scrape all the toppings off of pizza and allow yourself one teeny tiny bite of the crust, then quickly drown that crust in a salt bath before it dominates your every thought.

There's a lot you can do, you just have to be creative.

I'm over 6 years out. I had a slip within my first year, which was repositioned, and then worked fine after that. Honestly, I have strong suspicions that my original surgeon wasn't that great and also filled me too tight, and that was the cause of my slip. Being new and thinking I was doing everything I was supposed to do (measuring my food, chewing it well, etc), I was mystified as to why I was having problems. My older self can now look back at my newbie self and say, "When the first thing you ever got stuck on was a freakin' SUDAFED TABLET you should have known you were too tight!" Even though the practice where I had my surgery done spent a LOT of time on education, I could have used more. I think this is a pretty chronic problem with a lot of surgeon's offices. The learning curve with the band is a steep one.
Since having my slip repaired, I've done well. I never keep my band that tight anymore. I have been diagnosed with a mild esophageal dilation, which is being monitored. I suspect that I will have to revise to something else at some point, but I have the perspective that really, no WLS is ever a truly permanent solution. Particularly if you have WLS at a fairly young age, as I did (I was 32), you're asking for a procedure to solve a particular issue (and especially hard to solve medical issue at that) for a LOT of years. Part of why I chose a band is that, if I were to have, say, an RNY, there aren't a lot of places to go from there when/if it fails or I regain. At least with the band, I have a greater cahance (though, as with anything, certainly no guarantee) of having a wider range of options still available to me when/if it becomes necessary to revise. For the same reason, when I do revise, I would be most likely to choose a sleeve, because there would still be the possibility of DS or RNY later, if needed.

 When the band tightens up for no apparent reason, you can get stuck on minuscule particles of food.  I got stuck on puréed soup last Friday.

Omg that is so true! I have stated on here before that I have ate steak or chicken and it went down just fine. Then a few hrs. later got stuck on yogurt! YOGURT! Lol.

I wouldn't say it was tight for no apparent reason; it was tight because it was filled too tight and I didn't know better. It wasn't as though I could eat a hamburger one day and get stuck on sudafed the next, I couldn't eat more than 1/2 of a lean cuisine and would get full eating 3 brazil nuts. I was simply too tight.

 see?  that DOES happen to me.  Ground beef burger, moist, won't go down at say 12pm.  By dinner I could eat the same piece of meat and it goes down.  WHY?