Hi fellow Aussies

Jan ; I had the VERTICAL BANDED GASTROPLASTY ( stomach stapling ) operation done in 1982 when I was 19 at that time I weighed about 150 kgs as a consequence of this surgery I lost about 70 kgs , but over the years I regained all of that weight and then some . I tried everything to shed these KGS and eventuallly my gp refered me to a surgeon to see if it would be possible for me to have the lap band , but I was informed that my previous surgery made it risky ( the band could erode into the wall of my stomach ) and that it might not even be possible , thus making a gastric bypass my only real option . That operation would also have a high risk because of the complications presented by my previous surgery , so it took another 16 months before I FINALLY decided to have it done . I am now 3 weeks post op and on the road to recovery , the VBG operation is no longer practiced as it had a high failure rate and the lapband has made it obsolete.