I have lupus and I take plaquinel 2 times a day. I was banded on 10-10-08 and I have had no problems at all. I will be going for a Floroscope on 2-2-09 to make sure everything looks good.

What are you testing? Do you know how to put the weight traker on? I went to the weighttracker site and found one and put a pin in and I copied and pasted the link but all I got was a link in my last post. I am very computer ilirate and sometimes spelling too. Thank you,Le

Hi I had VSG on Sept 2nd and am doing great. When I first went to my surgeon he was leary but didn't say that,I was actually going for the lapband. My Rhuemy said she didn't think that was very good thing as it was a foreign object. So that made me read alot on here and talk to many of you and then asked him to do a VSG. Then he said the ins wouldn't cover it but I had a lot of criteria and they did. I went in on the 2nd at 6am was only to spend 1 night but my surgeon thought it best to stay one more night. I was let go on Friday morning. I did run fevers and had my drain in alittle long. I saw him everyweek, I did go back in the hospital week later. I was running a fever and blood (white) was high. I am on pred and have been for 30 yrs now so that is why all of this. While I was in the hospital 2nd time he ran all those tests all over thinking I may have a leak. He was with me at every test and back and forth to my room when he would. He took very good care of me. I was on diabetic meds, bp meds,and choles. trigl. were high and on thier meds. Also I have had fatty liver and elevated liver levels and now everything is gone, no meds except for my lupus, and my liver enzymes are NORMAL!!!! My Rhuemy when I saw her last month got my blood work back and she was amazed. She admitted she never thought that this surgery would work like this. If I were you I would check out local surgeons around here in the US before going out of Country. That to me would be very scary and my cause you to flare. You don't want that. Good lck to you and hope to talk to you soon. Happy Nw Year, Le

I certainly understand what you are saying about lapband and autoimmune disease.  But,  any weight loss surgery you have comes with risks.  What I love about the lapband is that you can just remove it if it doesn't work for you.  With some of the others it is permanent and there is no turning back.  Luckily for me right now this has been fine.  I am 68 pounds down and 25 to go.  And it has been a blessing so far.  I pray that it continues to work for me.  Thanks for your input.

 okay