Does Allergan, Inc. have plants on OH to support the Lap Band??
Mary Catherine
on 4/24/11 3:31 pm
on 4/24/11 3:31 pm
Nothing as dumb as actually paying people. I am thinking more like loyal company employees that are posing as successful lapbanders. A good way to help protect their jobs. Paying someone to post would leave them open to potential legal woes. But on the internet, anyone can be anyone and post anything.
I doubt it. They don't really need to do that so why would they bother going down that route?
But I also doubt OH is objective about anything.
But I also doubt OH is objective about anything.
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on 4/24/11 10:48 pm, edited 4/24/11 10:50 pm - ~Somewhere in~, PA
on 4/24/11 10:48 pm, edited 4/24/11 10:50 pm - ~Somewhere in~, PA
I doubt they PAY people, I've had my band going on 6 years and it's NOT been a bed of roses as others THINK...I've filed a complaint about my surgeon to Allergen a few years ago when I could not keep restriction....the solution was to change surgeons, I thought I had a leak, turns out my surgeon was not filling me properly, the band works by using a special needle to fill the port (Huber) and the fill giver has to pull the needle out in a way that the port automatically closes....this CAN be manipulated to where it will slowly leak out, and if you slowly lose restriction guess what? You have to go back and get another fill and pay for it...so I learned that game quick so my banded life has NOT been issue free, I've been grated and blessed that I have been complication free........is my band perfect?..NO.
No weight loss surgery is perfect, but my band restricts my food intake to about 1 cup per meal and I have to do the rest of the work if I want to lose/maintain my weight loss. At this stage going on 6 years I really don't need any more fills...but if someone my saline start to evaporate as many suggest, I will go back and visit my surgeon for a tweak.
I have to admit....my health is PERFECT since I've lost weight (thank god)...I only take 1 flintstone vitamin and calcium per day and that's all no vit deficiency or health problems and to date no hospitalizations with my band, I am grateful for that. So it is true the band seems to pretty safe at least for me. I have no reasons to make things up.
No weight loss surgery is perfect, but my band restricts my food intake to about 1 cup per meal and I have to do the rest of the work if I want to lose/maintain my weight loss. At this stage going on 6 years I really don't need any more fills...but if someone my saline start to evaporate as many suggest, I will go back and visit my surgeon for a tweak.
I have to admit....my health is PERFECT since I've lost weight (thank god)...I only take 1 flintstone vitamin and calcium per day and that's all no vit deficiency or health problems and to date no hospitalizations with my band, I am grateful for that. So it is true the band seems to pretty safe at least for me. I have no reasons to make things up.
I would be willing to be several different people and make enough to quit my job so I wouldn't have to sneak on here during the day instead of working...hahaha!!!!
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Me, too...and I don't even HAVE a band!
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Me, too...and I don't even HAVE a band!
Marilyn (now in NM)
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