PLEASE post your Adjustable Gastric Banding experience here

http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/amos/4304076/PLEASE-RESPON D-Explain-your-Lap-Band-AGB-Experience/

Please help Zee out by posting your band experiences. She is trying to bring attention to this. If more ppl were trying to bring attention to this maybe we would have heard these stories and reconsidered and not be in the position of needing a revision ourselves!!!!!!!

responded there... but here are my answers again'

Post Date: 1/14/11 11:52 am
Last Edit: 1/14/11 12:34 pm

Okay, Guys & Dolls When someone asks about the Band, they should get the feel of everyone who has been banded. We can refer them here, to this post.

Are you currently on your Band journey? No i divorced it on 1-11-11

Have you reached your "sweet spot"?no

How long have you been banded? 2 yrs 4 months

How much have you lost? lost 20,g ained 20, lost 20 gained more

Can you eat a variety of healthy foods?sliders went great....


Have you gone through fills & unfills never finding a happy medium? YES

Do you PB?YES

Keep your Band tight?NO

Have acid reflux?YES

Night cough? NO

Has your Band slipped?it is believed so.

Have you had a dilation - specify stomach or esophagus? NO

Do you have pain? Yes!

Have you had your Band removed? YES-If so any damage to any other organs?Not to my knowledge

Have you revised - to what surgery? YES to rny

Any other experience you'd like to tell us about? The band was just not right for me. I hated how it felt in me. I could actually feel it


Would you recommend the Band? NO I would not!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You got some good replies.  I hope it stays civil.