Wish people would stop hating on the band

The above poster is one the the most negative people on this board.  It's no wonder that half the people on here block her.

Do what is right for YOU.


I love my band.

Heh... it's funny, people like you Drooping_lbs keep saying half the people block me yet when when I log out, this is still the slowest forum of all the 4 main surgery types. Your claims do not prove to be true. YOU don't have me blocked, apparently you want true info.

It's not like I make this stuff up, I post facts, stats, and studies so WTH is your problem? I don't shove rainbows and puppy dogs up your back side? Again, I am not making this stuff up. My posts are directed at people researching. So tell me once and for all, what is your problem with my facts, stats, and studies?

What I don't understand about you is, you don't have a band anymore why do you care about what everyone else is doing.  We are all adults here,  If I need facts I'm going to research them for myself.  I'm for sure not going to get my facts from this board.  besides you rarly site your sources and most of your facts do not come from medical journals.  My Dr has been doing lap bands for 13 years and he has had 7 slips.  He was up front and honest with me. If she likes to have positive posts I do not know why you care.  Why don't you just leave people alone.  You pick fights over really stupid things. You should just stay away.  I don't care what you have to say to me but quit being a bully this is not high school.

I'm sorry if I SAW someone about to do something that I thought COULD cause them harm I would feel obliged to try to STOP them...that's why I CARE about people and the Band...

Shell I agree! They tend to think that we come on here and say things about the band b/c we just want to be mean, and negative. What they don't understand is that we do it b/c we CARE about what happens to others!!! I want them to at least KNOW what the band can REALLY be like. If they know and still choose it.............that's their choice and I wish them the best of luck..........but I want them to know how it could turn out for them so they can weigh the good and the bad and make an INFORMED decision about their health!!!!!!!!!!!

And Shell thank you for caring enough to come on here and try to educate them about the band also.

That's not your job, Your trying to give people medical advice and as far as I can tell you have no formal medical training. Its not your job to give people medical advice so they can make informed decisions about their health. That's their doctor and surgeons job. Your just an upset band basher, you had problems so everyone is going to have problems. Your just like my mother, every time my brother would do something stupid, I felt the pain. He wreck his car at 16 so I had tighter rules when I got a car. She was trying to keep something bad from happening to me, but she was going about it the wrong way. We are all different and everyone will have a different out come, no two cases are going to be the same.

All you doing is scaring the **** out of people, and ******g others off.

If you did your research then you should already know all of the band things that do happen with the band - but you decided to get it so get over yourself. We're trying to help those that haven't made their choice.

You might want to get therapy for your Mom issues - just saying

I did do my research, Im still doing my research. I will keep asking questions an informing myself until the day I die, or in the case actually have surgery. I havent had surgery yet so I can still change my mind.

I will not change my mind on the fact that it is not anyone's RIGHT or PROBLEM to come on here to scare the living **** out of people who are just trying to ask questions. I see people like you all the time with my job and it's annoying. Your like Prolifers who think that its their way or the highway. Just because I dont believe what you believe doesnt make me a sinner and you shouldnt be such horrible bashing people. You could get way more people to listen to what you have to go without being such duchebags about it. And like I said before the people on here bashing the band are people that have had it or personally know someone that has had it and it didnt go so well. Ive seen, and met more people that are happy with their band then not. You guys just yell more then everybody else.

Kinda like when you come up on a coyote make yourself look bigger so you scare it and it runs away.

Oh yea and one more thing I dont have Mommy issues, its was an example. My brother is actually a really good driver and never wrecked his car. Sometimes the only way you can get thru to dumbasses is to relate to something they can understand, in the case of the band basher nothing will relate except......No Band band bad. uuuuuuhhhhhhhh band bad.....errrrrrrrrr duhhhhhhh

So rather than be scared you would prefer to believe that you are going to have rainbows and butterflies implanted in your stomach and everyone will live happily ever after?

Rather than the truth you would prefer people to pat your head and tell you that everything will be perfect and you will have zero problems?

People that don't understand the difference between sharing information and bashing are pretty lost from the start. Maybe you're so scared because deep down inside you don't like the facts either?

And calling people names - really kinda crass and low. Its your fear showing.

 No one ever said its going to be butterflies and rainbows. Any weight loss surgery is still a major surgery, they all change the way our bodies work and they all have compilations, but like Ive said over and over again the people on here throwing any little piece of "this doctor says this BS" is horrible. you guys pull information from where every you want to and make it fit into what you want it to say. Like Wasabubblebutt posting a few days ago some information from a guy from the Sweden saying the lapband was the worst weight loss surgery out there. That doctor has actually loss his license to practice medicines and has done less then 300 WLS total. She based her whole fight off of this one guy, who seems to be dumber then a brick wall. The bottom line comes down to every surgery has its good and its bad and its even way worse.

I refuse to be an ass to someone because they sat down with their doctor and made a choice about what was right and good for their life.

With that being said, I still think your a duchebag. Say whatever you want about me, but you don't know me, you've never met me, you dont know anything about me. You don't know if I break knees or if I volunteer for Sunday school so how can you say Im fearful. Fearful of what, you? Right. Fearful of surgery, Ive held a human heart, Im not scared of surgery. I think its awesome. I just wish I could be awake while the do my surgery so I could watch.

So bring it on ***** I got a string of words you can call crass and low all day long! I know where I stand and I dont need so Know it all ***** to lead me about blindly.