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The lap band causes many complications. They say its minimally invasive but at least one third of patients need reoperations which can be much more dangerous thant the first operation. Also, a significant amount of patients dont lose much weight. The lap band company allergan is trying to get the band approved for bmi 30 to 35. Thats like everybody in this country. It's absurd. My opinion is try other methods to losing weight than wls. NYU is a dangerous place to get wls. read this department of health report I attached.

read this complaint about Dr fieldings department. DOH-A7.pdf

If u believe that patients cant lose the weight on their own. They need a lap band to help with behavior modification. So If a patient has a lap band and fails then the behavior modification failed and hence the lap band failed, not the patient. Also, if you can follow the strict lap band diet and keep the wheight off how do you know you couldn't do it without the band because the band diet is harder than a regular diet because of all the restrictions on food and on how you need to chew so much. Many people who do WLS eat emotionally and the lap band company (allergan) says on their website the band does not work for this. Obviosly people who eat a lot and cant follow a diet on their own have a food addiction, at least the majority. And since the lap band company says people with mental problems shouldn't get the band most WLS patients shouldn't really have had surgery. Last time I checked, having an addiction is a mental issue. I am not saying obese people are mentally ill. I myself am obese according to bmi charts and eat emotionally. How well would the band do if the FDA made surgeons and the device company say in ads or in the office that if you eat when stressed you cannot have the band (only for non emotional eaters who can already control their weight)? My point is since the company admits the band doesn't help with weightloss of emotional eating what is the point of the band for the majority of patients. Also the research articles show horrible complication and failure.

read these too. i know its a lot but I truly want to inform people of what the dangers are so they can make a real choice. http://www.occforum.com/index.php?showtopic=9326 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205527/Tragic-mother-died-having-gastric-band-fitted-shield-daughter-bullies.html

If patients dont follow the diet or dont lose weight for whatever reason it should still count as a failure of the band. I am sure you wouldnt blame paatients for not losing weight non surgically so how come its their fault once they have the band? Isnt it possible the band is just not a realistic solution for many patients?

If you read the research I posted you will understand my concerns. With a BMI of 32 you dont need to lose that much weight to be in the healthy range so the risks are not worth it.

read my post about complications before getting the band

read my post on the dangers of the lap band before going through with the surgery. Please. Someone close to me died of the band . I posted many research articles in full not just the liitle abstract from google scholar. my forum post is called lap band dangers but you can just click on my profile and then click on my content .

I am posting some research articles that show lap bnad dangers. You have to read the whole article to understand them. You cant just read the abstract. Ref._12_-_Fatal_Complications_of_Bariatric_Surgery.pdf Ref._5_-_A_10-year_Experience_with_Laparoscopic_Gastric_Banding_for_Morbid_Obesity_High_Long-term_Complication_&_Failure_Rates.pdf Ref._6_-_American_Society_for_Metabolic_&_Bariatric_Surgery_Position_Stmt._on_Emergency_Care_of_Patients_with_Complications_Related_to_Bariatric_Surgery.pdf Ref._4_-_Long-term_Results,_Late_Complciations_&_Quality_of_Life_in_a_Series_of_Adjustable_Gastric_Banding.pdf

read this too. the lap band was denied approval by fda in 2000. all of a sudden the next year it was approved by the fda without a comitee meeting. Something strange is going on between allergan and the FDA. Read the poor study results. Mean EWL is low. At the bottom it explains the panel denied approval in 2000. FDA_Lap_Band_REFUSAL_(2000).pdf

DOH-A7.pdf