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(deactivated member)
on 10/22/13 11:55 pm - Fair Oaks, CA
Topic: RE: Looks have changed - Support hasn't
Hi. What was it that brought you back after several years? How are you doing?
(deactivated member)
on 10/22/13 11:53 pm - Fair Oaks, CA
Topic: RE: I need your help!
Read through your post I'm curios what you didn't like about your results and what it is you are truly after?
(deactivated member)
on 10/22/13 11:48 pm - Fair Oaks, CA
juliew
on 10/18/13 1:42 pm - Stockton, CA
Topic: Medi-Cal in California

Right now I'm on my county's low income health program, but starting in January I will be on Medi-Cal. Thank you Obamacare! I want to have the DS surgery and have known this for a few years now. I am hoping that with Medi-Cal it will finally become possible. Other than emailing bariatric surgeons in California who perform the DS and asking if they accept Medi-Cal, is there another way I can find out who accepts it? I've tried Googling up the info and have looked around OH for a list, but could not find anything.

Wanting the DS! 

If you care enough for the result, you will almost always attain it. - William James

Akaleela
on 10/17/13 4:20 pm - Palmdale, CA
Topic: RE: Considered Lapband but need insurance advice
Thanks for the advice. I wish you well in your reversal.
QoftheU
on 10/17/13 3:36 pm - Bay Area/Silicon Valley, CA
Revision on 12/18/13
Topic: RE: Considered Lapband but need insurance advice
Hi Akaleela! Nice to meet you!
So, what I have to say may NOT be what you want to hear. How do I know this? Because I was in your position three years ago... questioning which WLS to get.

So here's my story: I wanted WLS but was scared about doing anything too "drastic" or "permanent" (even though I wanted the weight loss to be permanent - silly me!). So when I heard about the LapBand and all it "promised", I said, Yup, that's for me. I had decided and that was that. NO ONE could talk me out of it... I was determined to lose weight once and for ever. HA! There were PLENTY of people here in various forums advising AGAINST the band... I didn't listen - talk to the hand baby! And I made sure they knew that it was WRONG of them to say bad and mean things about the Band cuz it was demoralizing for those who had chosen it. Silly me... oh how I wish I had listened. Three years later here I am - with a FAILED LapBand and getting revision surgery in December. All of this could have been avoided (and I'd be at goal no doubt) if I had only listened... and here's what I should have heard: LapBands suck. They have a high fail rate, you can eat around them, and frankly it's a sad attempt to do WLS half-assed. I remember about a year ago arguing with my doctor that it just felt like another way to diet! He was telling me all I could eat and if I just got restriction (I NEVER did... I can eat ANYTHING... and I mean it - I can eat a whole burger, fries and shake NO PROBLEM.. and my band is filled!****pt telling him, how is this ANY different than the thousand and one diets I've tried??? Well, it isn't. And I feel he SOLD it to me. It has such a high failure rate that many doctors won't even do them anymore (my new surgeon won't). Hell, even the MAYO CLINIC won't do them anymore and recently I heard that the entire country of INDIA won't do them anymore! So... from a failed LapBander I say - do not do this surgery. Yes, it works for some but it takes a PHENOMENAL amount of self-discipline.. and if I had THAT I wouldn't be fat, would I?

Sorry if this was not what you wanted to here or is too negative, but I feel I need to pay it forward to make up for all those people I was too stubborn to listen too.

Good Luck and let me know if there are any more questions you have.

 

      

Leslie - Band Revision to RNY - best thing ever!   HW: 234   SW: 222  CW: Ticker  GW: 130

Akaleela
on 10/17/13 3:11 pm - Palmdale, CA
QoftheU
on 10/17/13 3:00 pm - Bay Area/Silicon Valley, CA
Revision on 12/18/13
Topic: RE: Considered Lapband but need insurance advice
Just found this, BUT, if you still are wondering about surgery, respond to this for some input from a LapBand patient getting a revision.
Good Luck!

 

      

Leslie - Band Revision to RNY - best thing ever!   HW: 234   SW: 222  CW: Ticker  GW: 130

Tara Griffith, MFT
on 10/17/13 6:09 am - San Francisco, CA
Topic: SF/Bay Area WLS Support Group - November 2nd

Hello OH Community!

The next SF/Bay WLS Meetup & Support Group is just around the corner...

As always, we will have an open forum to discuss anything and everything WLS related.  Our monthly discussion topic will be WLS & The Holidays. In addition, we will also be planning for our upcoming HOLIDAY CELEBRATION and CLOTHING EXCHANGE!!

Interested in attending? Here's the details:

Date: Saturday, November 2nd
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am


Location: James Flood Building
870 Market Street @ Powell                                                                                                                Conference Room Suite #365
San Francisco, CA 94102

RSVP REQUIRED!

RSVP HERE on Meetup
or contact Tara @ [email protected]

Our group is not affiliated with any doctor or surgical program is open to everyone! A $5 donation (for materials, site fee) is encouraged, but not required, to attend.

Hope to see you there!

Tara Griffith, MFT

(deactivated member)
on 10/17/13 3:15 am - Fair Oaks, CA
Topic: RE: OT: Good areas to live around Sacramento

Hi, I can give you my opinion on either... what is it that are you are looking for with your bad or good qualities? For instance- living in a rural area can be a good quality or a bad one...depends on what YOU are wanting. Sacramento has ALL sorts of lifestyles so finding a place to live that best matches your lifestyle is the way to go. I live in a community within Sac County where the town has chickens running wild, the major thouroughfare of traffic is behind my house, yet on the front side of my house, I enjoy wild life and country sitting just down the banks of the American River. in Fair Oaks. I have lived on and off in the Sacramento region since 1987. I was also stationed in the Northwest in the Puget Sound and raised up there as well with my family scattered about. Let me know what you are wanting...I'd be happy to suggest some places. :) Blessings.

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