Hey Maggie! I understand what you're going through, though personally I didn't really go through any indecisiveness between the two surgeries, but I'm sure you know that you should go through with whatever fits YOU best. There's always going to be pros and cons with each type of surgery, therefore you just have to sit down and determine what best fits your needs now and in the future along your journey of losing the weight overtime. I hope you get all the information you need and I wish you the best along the way!

We are so similar! What I did before seeing my surgeon was write him a letter explaining everything I've tried and why I want it- just incase I freaked out and didn't know what to say I was either going to read it or hand it to him. Turns out he was very understanding and did most of the talking. -Serena

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Thank you! I'm going for my one year follow up here just today. About to leave shortly and head to St. Louis. Very exciting. Hopefully everything will check out well, which I'm sure will be the case. It's too exciting having my official one year tomorrow!

Ahh! Well that's great. Just remember everybody differs surgery wise. Although lap-band is a lot slower in losing the weight.. there could still be complications along the way that others might not have experienced. I had the Roux-en-Y.. and I believe it was because I'm younger, that I only had the complications I did. The only problems I had after having the surgery last June was having gullstones, resulting in having the have my gullbladder removed 56 days later. I had kidney stones, a UTI and an ovarian cyst all at the same time. That was terrific to deal with! -- Well.. not so much. But then I had a hard time finding protien products that I could keep down. Now that' not the case so much anymore, and I'm able to eat just about anything I want. I'm actually able to keep down a lot of stuff I know a LOT of people can't.. such as beef and steak products. (I'm glad I can keep these down due to the fact that there's protien in these, so this is actually my essential primary resource for protien). Overall, I'm very proud of the progress I've made and even though I had a bit of trouble along the way, I know there are so many other people who've had it SO much worse than I (my mother for instance), I just like the remind people it's not going to be the same for the next person. But seriously, that's so awesome. I hope everything goes well and that you get what you want done. I know it's a really exciting time and I wish you the best with this all! If you ever want to talk on PM or anything.. I've got Yahoo and others. Just let me know! -Cas