ROLL CALL!!

Just wondering how many people are out there checking in on this board. Wi**** was more active. I just KNOW there has to be more Montana People out there. Pop in an say hello!! Felicia °?

Hi--I'm Rita and my husband is Jim--we live in Billings and both have had laparoscopic gastric banding--Jim in April and mine was done in January. I've lost 72# (including preop diet loss) and Jim has lost 89# (60 of it preop). Are there any local support groups that you know of locally for banded people? Jim was going to one, but they were all people who'd had gastric bypass and the facilitator wasn't too friendly to banded folks.

Hello!! Congrats on your weight loss!! Thats great that you 2 are doing it together! I dont have an answer for your banded support group but you might just ask around at the current support groups and see if the ones that have been banded would like to get together in a seperate group. I have only been to one support group so far so wouldnt even know who to tell you to talk to about it. Best of luck though! Keep up the awesome losing. Felicia °?

Hello! My name is Annette and I'm in Billings. I'm still in the pre-auth stage with hopefully only 1 more hoop to jump thru. I would love to start a support group here in Billings as soon as I am banded. It will probably be August. The only groups here in town that I'm aware of are all GB. I'm sure that eventually they will do banding here, but who wants to wait that long? I really want to talk to people locally who've gone thru what I'm about to do. I'm nervous about traveling to Great Falls for fills, etc. I spend a lot of time on the lap band board, but I'd really like to chat with banded Montanans! Thanks.