GeezerSue

In the OLDEN TIMES (I'm talking really olden times), this kind of allergy proved HORRID for women. I had a co-worker who had to wear band-aids on her chest, shoulders and back (everything that's plastic on a bra today was metal back then), and--since it was before pantyhose--she had tape on her thighs where the metal from the garter belt (or the garter part of the girdle) hit her leg, and if you've never seen what was used to hold sanitary napkins in place back before they had self-stick adhesive...well, she SAID there were band-aids on her butt crack as well. And I think she had to go with 18k and above.

SPAM Cantu sends recruiters here to solicit business...this is NOT the first one. This is one the moderators should pull.

I had a lot more time to sort things out...so I think the time issue is a critical stressor in your case. Questions to ponder: Have you had a "Plan B?" Given this insurance, what ARE your options? All things considered, can you handle two surgeries (one for band removal and another surgery later on if you decide to get rebanded or go for oneof the other surgeries?) What are chances that one of you can get into a situation where a different insurance will be offered? How do your age and other health issues factor in to the decision making process? We will all have different answers...I hope you can make a CONFIDENT and timely decision. Sue

Hmmm....it keeps saying that if I want to read this I have to take you off "ignore." Just kidding....

Fruits...nuts...whatever.

How odd! I just looked through your posts (24 of them) and not ONE is about your looking into the band for you. But if info on the band is why you're at a band website, here's a good place to visit: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Bandsters/

Well, I went "cheap" because "Mr. Cheap*" had done 1400 bands and "Mr. High Rent Newport Beach, CA**" had done about 30. Paying three times as much for 2% of the experience just didn't compute for me. *Rumbaut **Quebbeman

For the people I know personally who have had a slipped band, the most frequent sign of a slipped band is lack of restriction. But you were JUST banded and haven't yet had the kind of restriction the absence of which might signal a cause for alarm. In other words, exhale and back away from reading about complications!! LOL

I get it. It's just like if MY husband decided to participate on a board for nursing mothers because he was nearby when I was one. Even if my husband HAD spent "a substantial portion of [his] free time researching and becoming informed about" lactation for a period of eight months or so, he still wouldn't have either any professional training or an iota of experience to offer to those who wanted to nurse their babies, those who had successfully nursed their babies, those who were considering nursing their babies or those who tried nursing their babies and gave up. Now, if he wanted to start a support group for husbands of nursing moms, that would be a whole different story. But, of course, that kind of group would be best located away from the moms' group, because there are different and sometimes overlapping issues involved. This is NOT just about you as an individual, Dawg. I've been on several boards over several years and the presence of a spouse almost always complicates issues...even when both have HAD wls. And, if you think THIS has been a mess, you ought to see what happens when a couple breaks up and shares every detail with the board. But my analogy also applies to other friends and family members. It's also about the new and relatively new members who are really here to facilitate access of recently banned members. As hard as it is to accept, REAL support isn't always about helping our loved ones do what they want to do (or think they want to do)...sometimes it's about helping them understand it's just time to move on. Sometimes, the moving on is a good thing. When our daughter was tossed out of the college choir after two years, the choir director said it was because she "just wasn't that good a singer." For about five minutes, she wanted to fight her eviction. And I wanted to jump in and whop his ass on her behalf. But then, at only age 21 or so, she had the wisdom to realize that it was just time to move on. Imagine how silly that choir director looked when our daughter was cast as the female lead in the college's musical. Had she stayed in the choir, she'd have been just one anonymous voice and would not have had time to even audition for the musical. Moving on--no matter how painful those first steps are--CAN be the first steps on a path to growth.

Speaking as someone with control issues...I get what she's saying, but for those same reasons the RnY would not be my choice. Both the band and the RnY deliver immediate negative consequences for "breaking the rules." The DS (the surgery I now have) also provides negative consequences,but they are not immediate...kinda like getting fat isn't immediate. (LOL) Some friends and I were joking that we all wanted a doughnut...but the banded friend would plug up and start sliming and the RnY friend would start dumping and that I would--the next day--have two extra trips to the toilet. I don't know WHY having negative consequences the next day is less objectionable to my psyche, but--for me--it is. I guess because I CAN eat what I want to eat...where the band kept me from doing that. Pick whichever surgery you can live with...because you are the only one who has to live with it.

Would you feel better if I told you I didn't lose a pound this last month? (But I think 4000 calories is a kind of lowball bid...lol) In my book, you are one of those SB's!

Yeah, well..some of us oldies remember you and know where to find you...LOL.

Tricia...GERD-and-the-band is a huge issue. The band tends to CURE reflux in those who have it pre-banding but can CAUSE reflux in those who never had it. Many people learn to live with it and treat it with proton pump inhibitors, elevating the bed, not eating after a certain hour, avoiding spicy things, etc. Others--myself included--have decided that it made more sense to get rid of the CAUSE of the problem* and have moved on to other surgeries. Sue (*I had more than just GERD, but it was one of my first problems with the band.)

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I think that the needle should be a non-coring Huber needle. Anyway, picture this: You fill your turkey baster up half-way with Water and then put that water into a baggie. Then you decide to take the water OUT of the baggie, again using the turkey baster. No matter how hard you try, you just won't get all the water back into the baster.

Let me disagree with you on this point. I know people who were astonished to learn that their bands had slipped. The only thing that they seem to have had in common was "less restriction."

Could that because they limit their interpersonal relations to posting on an internet bulletin board?

Hey! Don't tell HER... ...BUT...

True...but we were better than ANYONE who didn't believe exactly as we were taught to believe....lol...godless Commies were just high on the list.

Paul...we finally agree...on a NUMBER of things. One little correction or addition...I was in Catholic elementary school in the 1950's. The "under God" thing was the result of a campaign sprearheaded by the Catholic men's organization the "Knights of Columbus." The nuns paraded us all out to say the "new improved" pledge together and to thank the KoC for their hard work. Not that we didn't play "Commies and Good Guys" in addition to "Cowboys and Indians"...the Cold War was a big deal, too.

Those people were not at all :mad: , right? :clap2:

About twenty-five years ago, I ran into a now-deceased aunt in a department store. I asked her how she had enjoyed her Thanksgiving. She said, "I have a son who was recently born-again and daughter who has become Mormon. We have to negotiate Grace. The only thing I gave thanks for was that they all went home early."

Could be a thread-killing tactic...could be evidence of an imbecilic, childish desire to gang-upon people who are discussing something you don't want to have discussed. But it's pretty boorish either way when all one has to do to stop reading something that offends them is stop opening the thread. My opinion only, YMMV.

It could be an Eye of the Beholder thing. My mother is 83-years-old and has just moved to Assisted Living. One of the questions they ask is the resident's religious preference. She wrote "Raised Catholic but no religion now...please leave me alone." Does that stop the well-intentioned people who are convinced it's okay to be deceitful if doing "God's work?" Uh...no. So they stop by to welcome her, AND to proffer non-stop invitations to join their services...and they are relentless, in spite of her "please leave me alone" comment. And I'm sure they are all convinced that she is "moving in the way of the lord," because Mother tries to be polite and that's how THEY perceive her politeness. (When they leave, she calls me and says, "I almost told them to get the F out of my way...") It rains? Thank God. It STOPS raining? Thank God. Someone SURVIVED the crash? God protected them. Someone DIED in the crash? God wanted them home. They were running late for an appointment, but traffic was light? God did that, too. If that is how someone perceives the world, what they see is is STRONGLY influenced by their belief system...and that belief system influences how they percieve everything. Not to mention that, as you know, dying people are often under the influence of drugs AND have other physical problems that interfere with their processing information and communicating what they are thinking...IF they are thinking. (And, no, of course I don't believe in Satan...or any other mystical or spiritual stuff.)

So...I guess this is how it feels to be the only virgin in town the morning after the gang-bang...you THINK you're glad you weren't involved but feel somewhat left out anyway.