Thinking about surgery - Help Please

Considering weight loss surgery.  Prefer Lap Band since no cutting/rerouting of body. I've read on here of many who had Lap Band first then later other surgeries.  Does the Lap Band not work well?

The lap band does work, but it will take time, some will power, effort and probably most of all patience to reach your weight loss goals. It sometimes doesn't seem that most surgeons are honest enough about this. It will take time at first, after surgery, to reach the proper restriction for your stomach, so many patients go through a series of fills striving for the right amount of restriction with the lap band. Then take into account that this surgery is less evasive, so there is no severing of nerves in the stomach like the other surgeries, so until that right amount of restriction is reached, you would still be feeling hunger that patients of the other surgeries do not. It is definitely the toughest of all the surgeries, as it will require the most work (exercise and such), patience  and will power, my hat's off to those that get it and are successful at all with it, I know I couldn't do it. I didn't get this way because I had strong will power.

Hopefully, Denise who has had the lap band, will chime in later, she's done great and I believe has finally gotten to the restriction she has been looking for with it after I think 8 months.

Definitely seek out those who have had it and ask them all your questions. I understand where you are at, I wanted the Lap Band when I first got into this, but after hearing the pros and cons of both surgeries and being honest with myself, I found that the gastric bypass was best for me. I wouldn't have been successful with the Lap Band. So just weigh it all and bottom line, be honest with yourself and what you know you can do.

Good luck!!