For those who are upset over negativity...

Here's some info I just found...


http://all-about-lapband.com/problems/failure.html

Lap Band surgery has only been in existence a relatively short time, approximately 10 years.  Initial results with lap band were very positive with respect to weight loss and morbidity.  Not many long term studies have been done.  Here are the results on one eight year study.  The study defines failure as losing less than 25% of excess weight.  Average age of the patients was 38 years and included 50 men and 270 women.

Complication	Percent affected
General Complications	33.1%
Erosion	9.5%
Slippage	6.3%
Port Problems	7.6%

Thirty three percent, fully one third of all patients developed complications such as erosion, slippage, catheter or port problems.  Twenty two percent of the patients required reoperation to fix failures of the lap band.

Now for the disheartening results, only about 60% of those banded that don't have major complications maintain an acceptable excess weight loss in the long run.  That means of those without complications only 4 in 10 are going to be successful.  Did your doctor tell you that?  Did you ask him?

In five years 40% of lap bands fail and only 43% have lost 50% of excess weight after seven years.  The study concludes that LGB (Laporoscopic Gastric Band) should no longer be the surgery of choice until they figure out a way to either screen out those that have complications or eliminate the complications.  The study indicates other longer lasting procedures should be used.

If you would like to read more about the study, here it is.

A reader writes regarding this study...

OK, as somebody who has been banded 6+ years, I have to say that at least 60% of the people I know who were Banded around the time I was Banded or soon after no longer have their Bands. I know that if I post something like this in the General forums... I get a lot of hands over eyes and mouth saying "no no no ... that can't be true..." because most newly Banded people do not want to hear this. I can't find any concrete statistics from Inamed/Allergan.. nor do I think they keep them (or want to keep them)... but I did find this study

Folks one thread just went away because people where singled out by name.  The warning post is up.  If you call people out by name this will
most likely go too.  I'm not playing moderator. 

Just saying.

 Which thread?

Similar to this one.  It shows a message from member services to play nice.  They also just updated they sticky that says to play nice.

Thanks but I am not calling anyone out or trying to start an argument.  I am responding to to someone's misinformation, a "someone" who asks to be spoken TO directly, not spoken ABOUT, so I am honoring her wishes.

 Okey dokey!