Before You Were Banded...
on 6/22/12 3:30 am - Califreakinfornia , CA
Obviously we are going to see this current issue from two different perspectives, and yes you are entitled to your opinion.
I'd love the opportunity to chastise at least one of them, but she has me blocked, so no can do. The other one I blocked, and I don't intend to unblock her so I can chastise her, I blocked her to make my OH experience what I wanted it to be.
5.0 cc in a 10cc lapband (four fills) 1 unfill of .5cc on 5/24/2011.
.5 fill March 2012. unfill of .25cc May 2012. Unfill of .5cc June 2014.
Still with my lapband with no plans for revision. Band working well since
last small unfill.
HW: 267lbs- size 22-24 LW:194lbs CW:198lbs Size 14-16
on 6/22/12 4:53 am - Califreakinfornia , CA
5.0 cc in a 10cc lapband (four fills) 1 unfill of .5cc on 5/24/2011.
.5 fill March 2012. unfill of .25cc May 2012. Unfill of .5cc June 2014.
Still with my lapband with no plans for revision. Band working well since
last small unfill.
HW: 267lbs- size 22-24 LW:194lbs CW:198lbs Size 14-16
Why is it that one persons ill advised comment gets the most recognition, but the rest of the positives get ignored ? She who shall remain nameless never once acknowledged those of us who wished her well, despite any ill feeling we may have had for each other.
It's not fair to keep stating that other failed bandsters are afraid to come forward, when time and time again, We " The Band Bashers " have continuously lent our support to those we have gone head to head with in the past when their bands eventually failed them.
We never took glory in their pain and suffering, we helped to lift them up and catch them up to speed on how to go about documenting their problems for insurance purposes, getting the proper diagnostics, and or discussing revision options.
This isn't right and from now on I am going to be bringing this subject up every time someone places the blame on Maria. There are too many of us here on this forum that lend a positive ear to those that were against our very presence here on this forum, those that believed we didn't belong, those that took pleasure in our own pain and suffering, and those that blamed us, but we stuck around because we felt it was the right thing to do.
I promise you we do not wish anyone with a failed band to have their band fail on them, we do not sit around and wish pain and suffering upon those whose bands are currently failing them, we do not sit around on our perches wondering why some of the newbies dare to disrespect the vets of this board and wish upon them a failed band. ( YES I can see and read what those vets are saying in the Band Grads Group ) and I think they have a lot of damn nerve talking the way they do about certain new newbies ) and yet what ****** me off the most, is that they are exhibiting the same exact behaviors that they have consistently beaten Maria over the head with here on THIS forum.
We need to put the past in the past and find common ground. There needs to be a balance on this forum, and I know we are capable of doing this, but it will not happen until we can all learn to let the past go, and that goes for both sides.
you are a class act, Pumpkin
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size 8, life is great
on 6/21/12 11:26 am
So..... I wish I had been told that I may never reach the right kind of restriction and that the left shoulder pain is not gas but referred nerve pain from your diaphragm. Something many times does not go away but can actually get worse.
I wish I had been told before I was banded, that eating even tiny bites can be very pain full.
And that all the problems that can accure are not always the patients fault.
DS 2009
But alas, Naysayers were chased off, chastised, blamed, and called liars. I wish that the people who had problems when I was getting a band had the courage to speak up the way that Pumpkin, and too many others to name do now.
People considering the band today are fortunate that so many now have the balls to share their experience whether or not it is something a current, or future, bandster wants to hear.
Ahh very true Mary D.
I was so excited to get my band. I had so much hope and visions of being just "Over weight" instead of MO.
We were the Guinea pig group, the first. For some it worked, for some it worked for a while and for some it didn't really work at all. I am in the latter group. I can't tell you how disappointed I am. I now just live with this plastic inside of me and hope and pray it doesn't give me any serious problems.
The good news if there is any, is we, the first groups can pass along our real life experience to others so they can make an informed decision. We didn't have that information because it was all so new.
If I knew then what I know now, I would have chosen a different surgery.
I'm doing Weigh****chers now.
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