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Hi Dr. Curry ~ I was banded on May 27th and had my 1st fill of 3cc yesterday 7/10.  Procedure at my dr. office is fills only every 6-7weeks.  In reading other posts, that seems a little long in-between.  Is this unusual?  Needless to say I was a little disappointed.  I have lost a total of 22 lbs.

Hi Dr. Curry ~ I was banded on May 27th and had my 1st fill of 3cc yesterday 7/10.  Procedure at my dr. office is fills only every 6-7weeks.  In reading other posts, that seems a little long in-between.  Is this unusual?  Needless to say I was a little disappointed.  I have lost a total of 22 lbs.

Hi Dr. Curry ~ I was banded on May 27th and had my 1st fill of 3cc yesterday 7/10.  Procedure at my dr. office is fills only every 6-7weeks.  In reading other posts, that seems a little long in-between.  Is this unusual?  Needless to say I was a little disappointed.  I have lost a total of 22 lbs.

Hi Dr Curry,    I will be having a lapband consult next Friday. I am still not 100 percent sure this is what I want to do. My biggest issue is my sugar. My last A1C was 6.7. It has NEVER been that high. I am 75 pounds overweight.    One of the doctors in the practice said that if I simply lost about 40 pounds this problem would probably go away. The problem is that I already lost 40 pounds 6 years ago and HAVE managed to keep 30 of it off but no matter how much I work out I can't seem to ever get below 215. I am 5 ft 4 3/4.  This is such a major change and I DO want to lose weight but am scared witless. On another note I can eat wheat bread veggies and clean eating and STILL my sugar is high. I don't get it. I am so confused. How in the world can someone that doesnt even have flour,sugar white pasta,chips and garbage food anywhere in their house still have this problem? I went through this with my last 2 pregnancies. The last one the nurse yelled at me in her office and had me crying because she INSISTED I HAD to be eating sugar. She kept telling me that if I kept eating junk my baby could be way overweight and what a risk I was putting my child at. Right my last 2 only weighed 7 lbs 8oz and 7 lbs 4 oz.  My husband also know's I eat right and has even got on people for trying to tell me about "portion sizes",and even the types of food to eat.      Now what has been your success rate with type 2 diabetics? Any advice or question I should ask the doctor when I go?

Hi Dr Curry,    I will be having a lapband consult next Friday. I am still not 100 percent sure this is what I want to do. My biggest issue is my sugar. My last A1C was 6.7. It has NEVER been that high. I am 75 pounds overweight.    One of the doctors in the practice said that if I simply lost about 40 pounds this problem would probably go away. The problem is that I already lost 40 pounds 6 years ago and HAVE managed to keep 30 of it off but no matter how much I work out I can't seem to ever get below 215. I am 5 ft 4 3/4.  This is such a major change and I DO want to lose weight but am scared witless. On another note I can eat wheat bread veggies and clean eating and STILL my sugar is high. I don't get it. I am so confused. How in the world can someone that doesnt even have flour,sugar white pasta,chips and garbage food anywhere in their house still have this problem? I went through this with my last 2 pregnancies. The last one the nurse yelled at me in her office and had me crying because she INSISTED I HAD to be eating sugar. She kept telling me that if I kept eating junk my baby could be way overweight and what a risk I was putting my child at. Right my last 2 only weighed 7 lbs 8oz and 7 lbs 4 oz.  My husband also know's I eat right and has even got on people for trying to tell me about "portion sizes",and even the types of food to eat.      Now what has been your success rate with type 2 diabetics? Any advice or question I should ask the doctor when I go?

  Thanks for your reply. I have the pre op appt Aug 15 and still don't know if my ins will approve. I am VERY concerned because ins wanted like a gazillion things shown where I have tried WW or LA weight-loss or Atkins etc. I tried several. Didn't like getting "weighed in" as I can workout like crazy and eat clean and my weight loss is at a snails pace. I have been walking 3 miles per day over the past month and drum roll please have lost only 6 pounds!!! I am talking speed walking and eating clean. 

  What do you think of the new device currently in FDA trails? The tube you insert down your patients throat and it bypasses the first part of the upper intestine? I have heard VERY promising reports about this on Fox news. If ins denies me lap-band would there be anyway I could be in this trail? I don't want to lose limbs and eyesight etc. This is said to be THE cure for type 2 and I want in.

Hi Dr Curry,    I will be having a lapband consult next Friday. I am still not 100 percent sure this is what I want to do. My biggest issue is my sugar. My last A1C was 6.7. It has NEVER been that high. I am 75 pounds overweight.    One of the doctors in the practice said that if I simply lost about 40 pounds this problem would probably go away. The problem is that I already lost 40 pounds 6 years ago and HAVE managed to keep 30 of it off but no matter how much I work out I can't seem to ever get below 215. I am 5 ft 4 3/4.  This is such a major change and I DO want to lose weight but am scared witless. On another note I can eat wheat bread veggies and clean eating and STILL my sugar is high. I don't get it. I am so confused. How in the world can someone that doesnt even have flour,sugar white pasta,chips and garbage food anywhere in their house still have this problem? I went through this with my last 2 pregnancies. The last one the nurse yelled at me in her office and had me crying because she INSISTED I HAD to be eating sugar. She kept telling me that if I kept eating junk my baby could be way overweight and what a risk I was putting my child at. Right my last 2 only weighed 7 lbs 8oz and 7 lbs 4 oz.  My husband also know's I eat right and has even got on people for trying to tell me about "portion sizes",and even the types of food to eat.      Now what has been your success rate with type 2 diabetics? Any advice or question I should ask the doctor when I go?