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I think it messed me up bad because now I can't stop losing no matter how much I eat! I can't eat alot at one time but I try to eat all day long. Mostly healthy food but several times a week I try to eat ice cream or something high in calories so I can stop losing, so far it is about 2-5 lbs a week but I'm getting to the high end of normal BMI and if I lose much more I'm going to start being very unhealthy. It does things to our bodies and we can't stop it. Once the damage is done you can't fix it and you just have to adjust your life to accomodate the damage. You just can't fix it, it tears you up and spits you out like so much garbage!!
This is what happened to my band. It was above the GE junction, just unde my diaphragm. I had it removed 2 years ago, regained about 40 lb, have lost 20 lb eating low carb high fat. You need to get it removed or risk permanent damage. Best of luck to you.
6-7-13 band removed. No revision. Facebook Failed Lapbands and Realize Bands group and WLS-Support for Regain and Revision Group
I'm so glad to hear hear some positive results with the band. I had surgery for lap band and hiatal hernia repair on 7/28/15. I only pray I can join the ones who say it's the best decision I ever made.
hi, i am wondering what the cost was at that clinic? how was the doctor? how long was recovery? what are the after surgery procedures for eating etc.
Thank you :)
good to know thank you! i think im going to have to call my Dr. back Monday its actually worse after having band emptied.
What concerns me most about gastric banding is the band's close proximity to the Vagus nerve system that runs from the base of the skull down into the stomach. These nerves, when irritated, can really cause a load of trouble in a human body. Just looking at our anatomy makes me wonder why anyone ever thought putting a foreign object so close to the diaphragm (which can also get damaged by the band's presence) was a good idea.
Sometimes you don't realize the extent of the damage until many years after banding, which is disturbing. I'm one who still has pretty severe damage even a decade after removal. It affects every aspect of my life. We simply weren't told the full truth about banding before undergoing it, in my opinion. But mostly because the truth wasn't known back then. NOW, however, the statistics are pretty grim regarding banding.
I'm diabetic now and need to eat in a more moderate and healthful way. I'm having more success today working with a nutritionist and choosing high fiber, low carbohydrate foods than I did with the band. All the band did was prevent me from eating anything solid, so I lost weight from sheer starvation. I was anemic, malnourished, and in pain. It's not the best way to go about "getting healthy." (I'm not saying that everyone will have the result I did. But the risk is not necessarily worth taking.)
Avoid kemmerling, Green Bay, WI
I'm sorry you had such a bad experience with your LAP-BAND surgery. I've had just the opposite experience. Since 2-9-12, I've lost 103 lbs. and just 1 - 2 lbs away from my goal weight. If you wish to believe it is a neurological/psychological thing that is your business, but that is NOT to say it is NOT a physical thing for some. I've tried losing through diet and exercise but could not do it (unless I did Taekwondo but could NOT afford to keep doing.)
There are stronger acid reducers you can get from the doctor I had to take 2 different ones Prevacid and ranitidine they worked much better that the OTC ones did.
i can i have been on omeprozole for a few weeks now. it seems to help some but not enough.
Hope you get to feeling better quick. Can you take acid reducers?I know for sure you will feel completely better with your band removed.
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