True Results?

Hello everyone,

I'm highly considering getting a LAP BAND. I live in Chicago, but will be going to Houston for my surgery, and I was wondering if anyone here has gotten their LAP BAND through True Results? If so, what was your experience with them?

Thanks

I did not use this company but it sounds like it might be a "Band Mill".

There is absolutely no way that I would have weight loss surgery ... Especially a Band .... Away from home and consistent medical follow up.

i saw my surgeon every 3 weeks for the first few months, then every 6 weeks for several months.

the band requires more follow up than any other surgery and many doctors will not take on patients that they did not perform surgery on.

i have had good success with my band, but don't recommend it to others because the complication rate is higher than I was first led to believe.

Thanks for the input! Chicago isn't really my home, it's just where I study. Houston is my home where my family is, which is why I elected to look into Houston ;)

Yep it's a band mill. I had my surgery at the one in Atl. and then they went out of business here right after my 6 week check up! STAY AWAY FROM T.R.!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for your advice -- What was your personal experience with it? Did you lose weight? Have it removed?

Thanks

It was not a good experience. I was lied to by their staff about the band being a lifetime product and about how extremely rare that band complications occur with "the new band". They were not very ethical at all!!!

Hello im from Houston and had lap band at true results. I never heard about it been a lap band mill. I had my surgery July 11th. I am still having soreness in my stomach. My experience with them was very good.

Wow, you had your surgery recently! Cool! I hope the soreness goes away soon.

Thanks for your input, i appreciate it

If you live in Chicago and Houston I would think twice about getting the band.  The band need high follow up care.  You wouldn't want to be in Chicago and need an emergence unfill and your surgeon is in Houston.

It is very important with the band to keep seeing your surgeon and tweaking fills.  If you are fill sensitive you could have to get .125/.25cc fills and in a 10-15cc band that isn't much.  I would get .5 cc and be back in Emergence getting .25 back out several days later as I couldn't swallow spite.  Than a couple weeks after they took it out I could eat a horse.  My tummy just didn't like being messed with.

True Results is a band mill.

The band is a high pressure device directly under your esophagus.  Your esophagus is always pushing down, the band is always pushing up.  This is why soooooo many people have esophageal damage with time due to the band.  This damage is forever.  Your esophagus can only take it for so long before it caves and begins to fail.

I can personally introduce you to two people right now that have serious, hard core, esophageal damage.  One is on tube feedings for life, the other is in the hospital right now why they try to figure out how to resolve esophageal damage, she cannot eat or drink.  She is facing either RNY (and that might not help, it is zero pressure against the esophagus but it may be too late for her) or tube feedings to get nutrition.

Just because the band is least invasive does not mean it is safe.  It is not safe.  Bands provide the slowest weight loss, the least weight loss, the highest regain, and the MOST complications of all surgery types.  Bands are not designed to be long term, even the band makers admit this.  Sleeves are the safest surgery type long term, bypass is good for those with reflux not caused by obesity or a hiatal hernia.  DS is the most effective surgery type long term.

I would encourage you to read non allergan sponsored studies.  Read the peer reviewed journal articles.  Bands are a huge and massive failure leaving people with no other WL options down the road many times.  Of course, I am not referring to those we can count on one hand posting here that have only had 1 re-op over the several years they have been banded, I am referring to the majority of people banded.  MOST have to have it removed due to complications in a few short years.

If you aren't ready for serious weight loss, just hold off and don't do anything for now.  We all have to be in this for the long haul.  If you are honestly serious about getting an effective WLS type, do your research.  ANYONE who honestly reads the studies vs. just asking newbies if they like their bands has not done their research.