Rumor has it . . . Mercy Capital

I have heard from some very reliable sources that Mercy Capital is going to stop doing the RNY and go strictly to the lap band. Has anyone else heard this as well. I am not to happy as when I went to the lecture before I had my surgery they said that they wouldn't do them since their success rate was not as high as the lap band. I would have definitely had the lap band done. Now I am having problems and I am almost 4 years out. Stephanie

Actually, I am having a RNY on Tuesday at Mercy Capitol.  I haven't heard anything about only doing lapbands.  I did read the article in the paper about the lapbands and the surgeons were quoted and were going to start doing them. What kind of problems are you having?  Any suggestions or advice for me...2 days to go!

 

Teri

Hello.  I am Chris and live in Earlham and also am having Dr. Smolik do a rny on me.  I have my 4 hour class tomorrow with susan, and since I have done all my appts and evals and such might be able to schedule surgery tomorrow too.  How did your surgery go?  I am so curious what I will be experiencing afterwards.  How bad was the pain? Did the walking help?  Did you have to lose weight before surgery? Dr. Smolik wants me to lose 20 pounds before my surgery.  What did you find to be the best tasting powder shakes and protein?  I hope you can answer my questions and maybe we can be support for each other.  I am gonna need all the help I can get.  I have already talked to my ins co and they verbally apprvd it and they will send in the request when they get my psych eval which is tomorrow morning.  My psych doc is gonna try to get my eval done and faxed over to mercy capital by 12:15 which is my appt time.  Good luck on your weigh to success!  :)

I had my wls class in may and it was at mercy capital and they said that they will be doing the lapband within a few weeks of that meeting but will continue to do the rny and other surgeries. Hope that helps.