ROLL CALL! Who is BLOCKED by You-know-who?

Bette B.
on 6/30/11 1:32 pm

Lap Band on 12/02/03

HOLY CRAP, SHE'S DEACTIVATED!

Banded 10 years & maintaining my weight loss!! Any questions, message me.

(deactivated member)
on 6/30/11 1:43 pm - Colleyville, TX

VSG on 11/19/10

Sounds like Mission Accomplished to me!

Bette B.
on 6/30/11 1:48 pm

Lap Band on 12/02/03

THANK GOD. I can sleep tonight.

Actually, I didn't want her to deactivate, I just wanted her to stop lying about me.

Banded 10 years & maintaining my weight loss!! Any questions, message me.

Stephanie M.
on 6/30/11 2:18 pm

True dat...she just would not stop...anyone who wants to review her posts can just type "still kicking" in the search box and there they are! Here's my favorite about "tight" restriction"

deactivated member

Post Date: 11/8/10 2:34 pm
Hello....

I just wanted to stop by and say hello, I wanted to update everyone on my restriction after I changed surgeons 4 months ago. Well I am very happy and very angry at the same time, I am happy that I have finally achieved the GREEN ZONE that is lasting, my restriction is not going away this time -- so far after my last adjustment 40 days ago it's still going strong, this has NEVER happened since I've been banded up until now.

I lost weight by simply continuing going back to see my now (old crooked surgeon) and to get fills IF I WANTED TO LOSE WEIGHT which resulted in over 60 fills and unfills some were warranted, -- I got so many unfills I avoided a slip since I KNEW so much about the band and the dangers signs of band slippage, I saved myself..lol, I've never had "good" restriction that lasted longer than 2 months for the last 3 years, we played that too tight too loose game for the last few years up until I finally got sick of paying for "FALSE" adjustments and gave up and I ASSUMED I had a stretched pouch since each time my old surgeons office would give me an adjustment I would get reflux and upchuck in my sleep and out my nose to the point I thought my band was about to slip so I stopped getting fills altogether last year and as a result I gained back 40 pounds

due to very little restriction for 26 months and scared of reflux, and this is a wake up call, that if I did not have restriction at 5 years I am sure I would have slowly gained back up to 300 pounds.

This is why I chose the band over RNY because I KNEW that if that pouched stretched I would be in big trouble years out like I am now, trust me it is VERY EASY in the first few years, but if you find yourself with little or no restriction you can gain weight extremely quickly. Thank god I found another surgeon before considering a revision.

Anyone who is bashing the lap band should be shot

, coz it is now my savior and I have the best restriction that I've had since I've been banded 5 years ago, the only thing it took was changing to a LAP BAND SURGEON THAT ONLY DOES and specialized in LAP BANDS.

The strangest thing now is I have tight restriction and I have to be very careful with eating and drinking but I don't have reflux

at 5 years, the last time I had tight restriction when my previous surgeon's office filled me resulted in horrible nightly reflux where I could not sleep at night.

Now this is very clear to me now that I was not being filled properly all this time and I assumed that it was something wrong with my band, I hope this helps someone else, because reflux is the number one complaint of bandsters who can't achieve GOOD tight restriction without pain and nightly reflux, it just may be your fill giver.

I am happy and LOVE MY SAME BAND AT 5 years

, thanks for listening. Now I have a chance to start over which no other weight loss surgery can do at 5 years out, I've lost 15 pounds since my last adjustment

, so I am on my way back down again.

Peace and Love to my fellow bandsters!

6-7-13 band removed. No revision. Facebook Failed Lapbands and Realize Bands group and WLS-Support for Regain and Revision Group

Ms_Swoosh
on 7/1/11 5:16 am - Indian Trail, NC

Lap Band on 12/18/08

Im not blocked... not sure I shouldnt be insulted that Im not lol ...then again..I dont bother reading her posts or others like them...so no worries :)

just keep swimming (swim faster when dealing with crap from others)
Swoosh

I am a work in progress...perhaps never completed or perfected; but forever working to change for the better...
~Swoosh
August 2012 New Dr.... New Start... Dr. David Voellinger