Am I unusual ~ MY STORY
Hey Fellow Banders,
I had the lap band surgery in 1/05 at South Valley Surgical in Sandy, and lived down in Cedar City, and because of that was not really able to take full advantage of the program because of the distance. I ended up having to move to the state of Ky before I was at my goal weight. There was a time when I thought that the band wasnt working for me, until I got enough fills to get some tight restriction, but with that came a lot of throwing up. It was a trade off because I was finally seeing the number on the scales go down, and you start to accept the throwing up as normal and just a part of having the band. I did end up moving to KY and got a good fill just before moving - as I said earlier that I had more weight to loose and knew it would be a while until I found the right band Doc in my new home state.
I ended up getting to a comfortable weight for me, but when I did get connected with a new doc, an upper GI revealed I had esophageal dialation and ended up having all the fluid removed from my band for 6 wks.
In that time I ended up putting on 50 lbs! I actually didnt know it was humanly possible to gain that fast. I ended up gaining another 25 lbs as Ive slowly been getting fills.
Heres the problem: It seems to me like I either dont have enough restriction to loose weight, or I am losing weight but throwing up all the time. I dont know if I've just never gotten that "sweet spot" that the Dr.s like to talk about - or that they dont have the band - and dont know it seems to have a mind of it's own. My Mom has a band and has had the same problem with it.
Is anyone with me on this?? I feel like a bit of a lap-band failure!
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