How much do you get sick with the lapband weekly ??? or daily ???

Just need to know this before I make my final decision .... TY in advance.....

I hardly ever get sick.  :)

I don't. 5 years out! Rarely get stuck, if that is what you are referring to. Only if I am not being mindful when eating.

All wls are "tools" I know many with other surgeries that are not Bands and they throw up time from time, either from not focusing on. CHewing properly or dumping. I work with one who has RNY and she chooses to eat crap inspite of knowing that she will be sick.
But that is because she is not addressing her addiction to food, which majority of us have weather we choose to acknowledge it or not.

I would strongly suggest seeing a phyc. Beside the time required for surgery, before making any WLS decision. In time you are faced with the reality as the "honeymoon" phase will and does pass. I see a dr. Who specializes in food addictions.
Good luck,
Prek3

I think that question is vague....having the lap band placed in general, does not make most people sick period, if what you are referring to is getting food stuck, this can happen to ANY restrictive surgery such as the Lap band, Sleeve or Gastric Bypass if patients don't chew their food properly.

However, some people with the band suffer complications, or their  bands placed wrong, or have band slippage, or have problems with their esophagus that may cause more vomiting or getting food stuck more often than others. But generally those who do not have complications and chew their food properly RARELY get sick or throw with their lap bands.

Same goes with gastric bypass and Sleeve, they can get sick and have frequent vomiting with much more nausea and dumping syndrome, they can also have strictures which narrows the esophagus and they have to be surgically dilated to get relief, which if the band is too tight, the surgeon can easily remove saline to stop vomiting.

I had my old 4cc lap band over 7 years and never had nausea often or had REAL vomiting, the only problems I've experienced was Pbing and more like a baby spit up and slimming aka...lots of saliva when I goofed and ate too quickly or ate foods that were too thick to pass through the band and that is not the same thing as being sick with regular vomiting pre op, the food just comes up with slime and once it's up, you are back to normal no sick feeling at all, at least for me and most bandsters.

Good luck on your decision, this is my second band, if the old one was extremely horrible all the time and made me sick, I sure would not have gotten a new one.

 

If you are talking about throwing up because you are stuck.  In the 3 1/2 years I have been banded that has happened to me a couple of times because I ate too fast or too much.  But this hasn't happened to me in awhile.  Definitely not on a regular basis, weekly, or even a monthly basis.  I would find that unacceptable.  I can eat whatever I want just smaller amounts.   

If you're talking about sick as in nausea and vomiting, that happened to me only once, when I had an intestinal bug.

If you're talking about regurgitating food (aka PB or productive burp, which is not associated with nausea and comes fromo tdhe esophagus rather than the stomach), it only happened to me when my band was too tight or when I had eaten carelessly.

Although eating problems like PB's can sneak up on your, generally speaking they're prevented with  good eating skills: take tiny bites, chew very well, eat slowly, don't drink while you eat.

It's my understanding that regurgitation can happen to any WLS patient, not just bandsters. A while back, a sleeve patient mentioned that you don't have stuck episodes or PB's with the sleeve, but just the other day I had a stuck episode (my only one since my sleeve revision in August), and it happened for the exact same reason as stuck episodes with my band - careless eating.

Jean

 

rarely if i eat small amounts and i'm careful to chew my food thoroughly and i'm not eating something that will chance getting suck.

Gosh, I wouldn't even consider a surgery if I thought it would make me "sick" weekly or daily.

 

All Best.

I had my band 4 1/2 years before i HAD to have it removed. I lost 70 lbs initially but that was it. I The last 3 months of my band life was horrific... I developed severe gastritis in my pouch and it would not heal. I spent 3 months in and out of the ER, only able to tolerate liquids, nauseous all the time and in constant pain. I had my band removed and within weeks my gastritis was healing and I could eat again, and to a surprise to me the annoying back ache I dealt with for so many years was gone.... some thing I never related to my band until I woke up from surgery... it was that instant. Oh and I was self pay during all this.... $9K to take it out!!!! Please research other options than the band.....

It did not make me sick

 

BUT! I did have alot of issues .. constant tightening, stuck, throwing up food, eating crap because I couldn't keep dense protein down.  I had it removed. 

Please reconsider, you won't want to have another surgery or two if they do revision in two surgeries.