If you're choosing to have the band because you don't want your anatomy altered...
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on 7/11/12 3:53 am, edited 7/11/12 3:55 am - Bay City, MI
on 7/11/12 3:53 am, edited 7/11/12 3:55 am - Bay City, MI
Every band person I know personally suffered with acid. I did, 7.5 years. I'd choke and vomit acid all the time while sleeping. It looks like cola, so gross. I'd be teaching and it'd come up my throat. My students were so worried about me. I was losing weight rapidly AND vomiting constantly. I had to take out my own trash everyday. Custodian prob thought I was so nice. No, it was full of stomach acid.
Esophagus damage can cause cancer.
Choking on acid while sleeping can cause death.
My slip was fixed immediately. My dr was scared I'd die in my sleep.
My dr quoted a 30% failure to me in April. It was 2% in 2004.
It's so whack!
Esophagus damage can cause cancer.
Choking on acid while sleeping can cause death.
My slip was fixed immediately. My dr was scared I'd die in my sleep.
My dr quoted a 30% failure to me in April. It was 2% in 2004.
It's so whack!
I also suffered with the band , it was fine the first year and partway into the second.
My surgeon from STANFORD ( no longer my surgeon of course) thinks and counts ME as a successful band patient because he does not know that I hung on to that damn thing for over 7 years and finally was converted to bypass , my new surgeon takes OUT bands EVERY WEEK, there has to be a reason for that.
I will not answer Stanford's phone calls and when they send a survey I write F you all over it and send it back
I threw up almost everything I ate , my esophagus burned even drinking water and I had CONSTANT left shoulder pain , Stanford doc said it was gas , a year after banding, how stupid does he think I am ? ohh I guess he thinks I am as stupid as he is. I was throwing up blood and he would not see me , because he only sees banding patients one day a month and that wasn.t the day , they wanted me to drive the 4 hours to go to the ER because he could see me in the ER.
SO HAPPY to have a new surgeon and his staff that actually care about ME
So to Stanford I am a banding success....what a joke
Of all the banding people I know I have only met ONE who has lost all her weight and is keeping it off for over 2 years because she is at the gym several hours a day
I hope that everyone who has a band will be healthy a able to live in a lower weight body for years and years
My surgeon from STANFORD ( no longer my surgeon of course) thinks and counts ME as a successful band patient because he does not know that I hung on to that damn thing for over 7 years and finally was converted to bypass , my new surgeon takes OUT bands EVERY WEEK, there has to be a reason for that.
I will not answer Stanford's phone calls and when they send a survey I write F you all over it and send it back
I threw up almost everything I ate , my esophagus burned even drinking water and I had CONSTANT left shoulder pain , Stanford doc said it was gas , a year after banding, how stupid does he think I am ? ohh I guess he thinks I am as stupid as he is. I was throwing up blood and he would not see me , because he only sees banding patients one day a month and that wasn.t the day , they wanted me to drive the 4 hours to go to the ER because he could see me in the ER.
SO HAPPY to have a new surgeon and his staff that actually care about ME
So to Stanford I am a banding success....what a joke
Of all the banding people I know I have only met ONE who has lost all her weight and is keeping it off for over 2 years because she is at the gym several hours a day
I hope that everyone who has a band will be healthy a able to live in a lower weight body for years and years
Donna Q. --5'8" -60 years old
Band 2005
hw320 sw276 lw with band 195 gw 160-180?
Bypass 4/4/2012
pre sw 258 lw RNY 162 cw 203
You choked and vomited acid for 7.5 years?? Why didn't you see your doc before that? I'm glad you're doing better.
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*sigh* she said she choked and vomited for 7.5 years. then she said her doc repaired her slippage immediately bc he was afraid she'd die in her sleep. forgive me if i assumed that as soon as she saw her doc he fixed it, therefore i assumed she didn't see her doc for 7.5 years while she was having the problem. if i was wrong or dismissive or didn't come across appropriately, i sincerely apologize.
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It sure can change your anatomy. I'd rather have a procedure where the surgeon alters my anatomy with precision than to have the band... which just alters whatever happens to be close by... like your diaphragm, your stomach, your esophagus, your Vagus nerves, your liver, your lungs...
It's SUCH a bad idea. When you really look at human anatomy, it makes you wonder why anyone ever thought the band would be a feasible and long term solution to anything.
There are going to be a whole bunch of people with a lot of damage down the road a spell. It's not going to be pretty. And no one ever believes it until they experience it, I guess.
It's SUCH a bad idea. When you really look at human anatomy, it makes you wonder why anyone ever thought the band would be a feasible and long term solution to anything.
There are going to be a whole bunch of people with a lot of damage down the road a spell. It's not going to be pretty. And no one ever believes it until they experience it, I guess.
Avoid kemmerling, Green Bay, WI
Jost Dreams
on 7/11/12 11:53 am
on 7/11/12 11:53 am
After I lost my band because of a slip I could not decide between the RnY and the Sleeve. Ultimately I chose the RnY because my Doctor was very concerned about the amount of scar tissue left on my stomach by the band. It would make a clean suture difficult and the chance of a leak into my abdominal cavity high. The result would be an emergency surgery.
Just another example of band damage.......lots of scar tissue. Doc said my stomach had adhered to other organs due to the scar tissue. Scary.
Jost,
I recently had the opportunity to revise and chose not to because like you, I have SO much scar tissue that the risk was just too high for me. The last colonoscopy I had was ridiculous. The doctor said the scope kept getting "hung up" in areas where they were "glued" together. I kept waking up and freaking out. They pumped so much medication into me, I was wonky for hours and hours and hours!
Is your RnY working well for you? Are you happy with your decision? I hope so.
I recently had the opportunity to revise and chose not to because like you, I have SO much scar tissue that the risk was just too high for me. The last colonoscopy I had was ridiculous. The doctor said the scope kept getting "hung up" in areas where they were "glued" together. I kept waking up and freaking out. They pumped so much medication into me, I was wonky for hours and hours and hours!
Is your RnY working well for you? Are you happy with your decision? I hope so.
Avoid kemmerling, Green Bay, WI
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