Re: lap band vs. sleeve/Helena

[Guest guest]

Helena,

It's great that you know your limits and are disciplined enough to stop when you should or spit out food after chewing it.

Not all of us have that kind of discipline and must learn it over time with the help of WLS. Our poor eating habits are what created our obesity and the need for WLS in the first place.

I believe the sleeve experience is much different from the band when it comes to PBing.

I have not heard anyone with the sleeve experience PBing although I have heard of sleeve patients vomiting.

The PBing that I have experienced is not the same a vomiting.

PBing is more a gentle regurgitation of something either because it was not chewed well enough and got stuck or a person eats too much and their pouch gets over filled.

Both of my episodes were due to reverting back to old habits of not eating for long periods of time and allowing myself to get very hungry. This resulted in me eating the first bites of food very quickly and not chewing well. Both times it was meat.

Maintenence and finances are one of the issues a WLS should consider realistically when thinking about surgery.

I am lucky to live only 2 hours away from Hospital Almater and Dr. Aceves.

(a note for those who are familiar with my journey)

Ironically, after my very vocal protesting of my company's insurance policy excluding all treatment for obesity. The policy renews at the end of this month, obesity treatment and WLS are no longer excluded.

Of course, a little too late for me but I would not change this past year for being 80 pounds heavier and waiting for them to change or fighting it anymore than I did.

I believe the care I received at Hospital Almater and their team was well worth my 401k account being 6000.00 less.

I feel so much better even if I still have a ways to go to goal.

a

DOB May 9th,2008

(365) 345/291/170

In need of fill # 2

From: susankirby65 <susankirby65>Subject: [Dr-Aceves-bandster s] lap band vs. sleeve @groups. comDate: Monday, December 8, 2008, 7:51 PM

Hi, I am curious as to opinions regarding the lapband and the gastric sleeve. I would love to hear from both sides and to be able to compare weighloss between the two. I am interested hearing: the good, the bad and the ugly...lol.Thanks in advance for your time.

[Guest guest]

a,

I have no idea how I found the discipline to spit my food out, but

I think the immense chest pain had something to do with it. I was

bulimic for 8 years and one would think that I would have much

difficulty with knowing my limits, but somehow this surgery has

actually helped me (granted I had stopped my eating disorder 1 year

prior). I think I really know my body and what fullness feels like so

it's easier for me to know when to stop...although for many years I

did not listen to that que! I did once have instant mashed potatoes

come all the way back up my throat and sit there for about 4 hours

(they expanded inside of me). That was the worst feeling I have ever

had, I cried for the entire 4 hours s it was soooooo

uncomfortable....So maybe it's the trauma of instant mashed potatoes

that has made this journey a little easier. LOL

Love, Helena

BMI on date of surgery : 37.5 (oct 25th)

BMI now: 30

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> From: susankirby65 <susankirby65>

> Subject: [Dr-Aceves-bandster s] lap band vs. sleeve

> @groups. com

> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 7:51 PM

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> Hi, I am curious as to opinions regarding the lapband and the

gastric

> sleeve. I would love to hear from both sides and to be able to

> compare weighloss between the two. I am interested hearing: the

good,

> the bad and the ugly...lol.

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> Thanks in advance for your time.

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