oxford liberty northern nj

any lapband doctors you know of who participate in this?  oxford just gives me a list of hundreds of surgeons as they are not classified as bariatric....so i thought i would start here to narrow the list down...

thanks,

s

You do realize that if u get a band you are almost guaranteed that you will have to have it removed in just a few years, right? After all............why do you think you almost never see/meet a bandsters that has had theirs 5 yrs. And if they have...........they almost alway shave had a 2nd surgery, or at least complications!

Think twice, cut once!

all i did was ask...my daughter had the lapband and her doctor is going off her healthplan...so we need to find another doctor....

and in response to your think twice, cut once, how about not getting surgery at all and doing it the way i did, which took me 2-3/4 years to lose 140 lbs and maintaining it for 10 years....i wasn't asking for your opinion....i just wanted information....

but thanks so much

 
~~and in response to your think twice, cut once, how about not getting surgery at all and doing it the way i did, which took me 2-3/4 years to lose 140 lbs and maintaining it for 10 years....i wasn't asking for your opinion....i just wanted information..~~

Congrats, I think that is wonderful.  However, you need to look at current stats.  In our population 3-5% of us can do what you did.  You think surgery was our first option?  For real?

Tsk tsk tsk... I don't believe you realize just how insulting you are being.

Well I just threw that out there b/c I thought u hadn't had surgery yet and were researching it. I didn't want  you to end up in the same postition I am in, or that you're daughter will most likely be in in the next few yrs.

~and in response to your think twice, cut once, how about not getting surgery at all and doing it the way i did, which took me 2-3/4 years to lose 140 lbs and maintaining it for 10 years~

Well in a sense I kind of did what you did. I had band surgery that never worked, so I dieted my way to a 120 pound weight loss that took me about 3 years. I have only maintained for about a yr. though.

Congrats on your weight loss, and more importantly, on maintaining!!!

first of all, i did not mean to be insulting; secondly, and i'm just asking; if surgery were not an option for people....do you think just maybe they would do it a different way?  i was suicidal when i reached my heighest weight; i met with a lapband/gastric doctor in the late 90s before it became "the norm"...and he sat me down (and this was at Columbia Presbyterian, one of the 10 top hospital in the world) and he said, "Now i'm going to spend two hours talking you out of this...and he did...

to each his own, of course...

i just needed some info for my daughter...

s

I don't think my surgeon Michael Bilof, MD takes that insurance but you may try Nicholas Bertha, MD he did take that insurance when I had it a year and a hal*****here are 3 other surgeons in his group and they are all excellent in bariatric procedures.

thanks, but bertha's group is out...spoke to them this morning...thank you again

Sonja I would suggest posting the same question on your state forum (if you haven't already). That way you will get more responses from local people.

Good luck.