August 6th is my date and I can't wait

jackie i see your getting the band. i had it but unluckly it got infected so thats why i am doing gastric. the band cannot be put back in once your body rejects it. it stayed in 2 years though. good luck and you will do well.

Hi Lenna, Is your insurance company going to pay for the gastric since you already had the band? It got infected after 2 years? I thought by then I would be out of the woods, how did you know that it was infected? Well best of luck with the gastric. Jackie

hi there jackie, yes my insurance is paying. thank god. i would not be able to get it if it wasnt. to be honest from the time i got it in i always was tender in the port area. then it just slowly progressed until the port area turned real red on the outside of my skin about the size of a big orange. it hurt and was very hot to the touch. i knew i needed to go to dr. so i did and he said it was infected, so they took it out. i gained weight afterwards. i knew that surgery wasnt for me from the first three months i had it. wish i had went gastric but i was just scared because it couldnt be reversed. keep me informed on how you do.

Hi Jackie,my surgery is scheduled for Aug6th as well. I am both scared and excited about my new life that awaits me. I too decided to have the lapband but more and more reading sorta discouraged me and I was glad my insurance didn't pay for it becasue the letter came back disapproved. I thought I had all the info on lapband but to me hearing from people that have actually had it really made me make up my mind. So it was sorta good for me the letter came back saying no to the lapband. My Doc submitted for the Gastric and they approved in like 2-3wks.....no lie. I am glad and feel better about having the Gastric. But in the end Jackie you have to do you! Do what you feel is best for Jackie. Don't listen to me or anyone else. Make up you own mind which it sounds like you have and go for it lady. I am happy for all of us to take a stand and go for it....smile.

Congratulations and best of luck, you will do great. Jackie

Hi there, I have an August 6th date as well, my liquid diet starts tomorrow... I have a question, has anyone heard that you can not eat red sugar-free jello while on the liquid diet... someone told me that, they also have had the surgery and I just wanted to ask

Congratulations on your date.. I am not sure about the red sugar-free jello, I have not been told to do a liquid diet yet. Best of luck to you.

i started my liver shrink diet today. and on my diet it says on the day before surgery i can have jello but no red jello. dont know why. but thats what it says