Hey everyone ,haven't been on here in years but just got a message about a topic ,i totally agree with Coco !! Down in the Dumps i've been where you are and if there is one piece of advice i can give you is ,please consider Belgium !! i'll try and cut a long story short ,i went with ACS which are The hospital Group in disguise ..they went bust as we all know and i was left there for yrs without a fill !i just had the fill from when i went for the surgery that was it and then it was bye bye from them ,and if i thought The hospital Group were gonna help ,well i was in for a big surprise ,never got help or fill from them ,eventually found that the surgeons from Belgium were doing fills in Dublin and was i the happy girl ,even tough my port was all twisted and i had the Aldi version of a band that ACS had put in me,they could not have been nicer and such gentlemen ,and i went on to lose 3 stone after hardly any weight loss because of being let there ,and i tell ya i was lucky to have them last year when i started to feel very sick and couldn't hardly keep drops of water down not even a spoon full of water so i rang The Hospital Group for help as i was so scared and i needed someone quick to help me i was crying on the phone and very scared ,well that was last Oct and to this day i have heard NOTHING from them,oh i'll get back to you they said ,oh that's terrible they said ,oh we are very worried about you ,so worried they NEVER even rang me back ! ,i rang Belgium and i cried with relief because they were so good to me ,they got me in for emergency surgery a couple of days later ,as it happens my passport was out of date and they sent me letters from Dr Frederick himself so i could get an emergency passport ,my point about this is ,i was exactly the same as you saying oh stay close to home and all that in case something goes wrong ,well it took the surgeons in Belgium to help me ,nobody here did so if that doesn't speak volumes i don't know what does ,I WISH somebody had told me what i'm telling you ,i had e-mail after e-mail from Dr Frederik In Belgium telling me he was gonna fit me in and have a car and hotel ready for me and he NEVER let me down ,in fact i think i have a crush on him to this day ,even my husband admitted to having a man crush on him !!!! hahahaha ,he was that good ! when i got there i was soooo happy i forgot how sick i was and couldn't wait to have the band removed ,i didn't want it back in after what ACS put me through but if i had it done in Belgium i'd still have it in as my experience would have been totally different without a doubt ,and the surgeon was so good he told me that the damage inside me was so bad from what the cheap band had done to me that he wouldn't recommend me having a band for a few yrs to let my body heal,it was a totally different experience for me over there ,yes it is far away but as you can see by my story ,getting it down closer to you doesn't mean better ..pleaseeeeeee take your time and think as i was soooo miserable being fat that i jumped at the first place i seen and i was the same as you i thought oh i can't wait ,i wish i had waited and went to Belgium .If you do go with The Hospital Group i wish you the best of luck and it could be great but i could not sit at home looking at your message and say nothing to you ,this was not to scare you but to have every bit of info you can about people who are gonna be very important to you over the next few yrs ,best of luck ,if you need any more info don't hesitate to contact me XX
