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Topic: RE: my mom mary wright died from complications due to a
I didn't know that volunteering at an animal shelter would ease the pain of a mother's passing! What a stupid response. Why don't you start a scholarship for people to go to school and learn manners and sense a decency. Oh wait...those things can't taught.
Topic: RE: my mom mary wright died from complications due to a
A million apologies. I now see who you were responding to.
Topic: RE: Freedom!-Moving on beyond the lapband
Several of us had problems with the band. Mine is a failure and I am having a RNY next year. But that doesn't mean that it won't work for you. If your insurance covers it, it is worth a try.
Topic: RE: VSG Regrets?
This is a support board. Go somewhere else and be rude. You are not wanted here.
Topic: RE: Do you regret the type of wls you had?
I had a band done in Mexico about 3 years ago. The surgery was ok - the trip was H*LL on wheels. And I was alone.
I lost about 70 pounds in about 7 months. It was a painful process. Everything I ate stuck in the band and finally plopped through to my stomach. I had a US doc doing my fills. When I went for my second fill they discovered that the port had flipped. After having several long needles stuck into my abdomen with no lidocaine - have having several peopele applying tremendous pressire to me abdomen to try and flip the port, the doc finally got the fill in. About a week after that i noticed that I had no fill at all- No old fill and no new fill. Suddenly I could eat anything at all, and I did! I've tried to have it checked twice at great expense. The port is still flipped and the band is empty. All that money and suffering for nothing.
My health insurance is finally going to pay for 50% of a RNY next year. I found a nationally know surgeon who is not only do the RNY, but fix my band so I can have it inflated a year or so out if need (I have a lot of weight to lose).
Do I regret the band? Oh yes. Even if I could get a band to work I would not do it again. For me, each bite was pain. That is why I lost weight. I also have too much weight to lose for a band.
Having said that, there are people who are quite successful with the band. Never go to Mexico, though. You have no recourse when something goes wrong and no one in the US will touch you.
I lost about 70 pounds in about 7 months. It was a painful process. Everything I ate stuck in the band and finally plopped through to my stomach. I had a US doc doing my fills. When I went for my second fill they discovered that the port had flipped. After having several long needles stuck into my abdomen with no lidocaine - have having several peopele applying tremendous pressire to me abdomen to try and flip the port, the doc finally got the fill in. About a week after that i noticed that I had no fill at all- No old fill and no new fill. Suddenly I could eat anything at all, and I did! I've tried to have it checked twice at great expense. The port is still flipped and the band is empty. All that money and suffering for nothing.
My health insurance is finally going to pay for 50% of a RNY next year. I found a nationally know surgeon who is not only do the RNY, but fix my band so I can have it inflated a year or so out if need (I have a lot of weight to lose).
Do I regret the band? Oh yes. Even if I could get a band to work I would not do it again. For me, each bite was pain. That is why I lost weight. I also have too much weight to lose for a band.
Having said that, there are people who are quite successful with the band. Never go to Mexico, though. You have no recourse when something goes wrong and no one in the US will touch you.
Topic: RE: Anyone else out there that isn't enjoying their WLS?
I think one of the things that bothers me most is that the people who are happy - always blame non-compliance on the health issues. While I know some of my problems have been due to that, I know a number of people who followed their surgeon's program to the T and still had a ton/have a ton of problems.
I get irritated at the "Happy-Happy" folks who can't believe people do have complications - that are permanent from WLS.
I get irritated at the "Happy-Happy" folks who can't believe people do have complications - that are permanent from WLS.
Topic: RE: RNY Reversal/Revision with Dr. Daniel Herron
I am too scared that I will get even sicker if I have a reversal - so I would encourage you to do A LOT of research before you do it.
Anne
Anne
Topic: RE: just wondering...
Gilly - I am a 2004 surgery person too and have been sick off and on for the past year....It has been physically and emotionally draining. I regreted having this surgery to some degree the first few years, but now it is all the time.
I have chronic severe anemia that I have not yet been able to get rid of. I have pain in my elbows and knees all the time. (THe pain in the elbows is probably from the IV's and blood transfusiions - think some of my veins were blown out or something.)
I am tired a lot.....
I felt better when I was fat....
As for the reversal - I am scared one would just make me worse.
I have chronic severe anemia that I have not yet been able to get rid of. I have pain in my elbows and knees all the time. (THe pain in the elbows is probably from the IV's and blood transfusiions - think some of my veins were blown out or something.)
I am tired a lot.....
I felt better when I was fat....
As for the reversal - I am scared one would just make me worse.
Topic: RE: My misery
I just saw your post and now I am worried. Who was your surgeon? What type of surgery did you have? Have you been back to the surgeon? Why or why not?
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