halli

How much have you lost so far since you haven't had a fill in 6 months. I know it is a slow process but this is what I want so that I can tone my body the at the same time I am losing.

Hi I am a 47 year old woman, begining my journey to lab band surgery. I have began the monthly weight call ins to Dr. waiting to reach my goal for surgery. My biggest issue is my current medical insurance is against the lap band surgery and tying to convince me of getting the gastric by pass. This certainly is not the way I want to go and believe that my insurance does not want to deal with the fills and constant follow ups that come with lap bands. Don't get me wrong they will do the procedure but they are giving me horror stories of why I shouldn't. I'm just hoping I am making the right decision. By the way I live in Northern California and my insurance is Kaiser. Those of you who live here, should know the crap I am going through.

Thank you for your input. I have done lot of research and I know people who have had the lap band and even more people who have had the gastric by pass. I want to loss weight but I certainly dont want to die doing it. I have know of serveral people becoming malnourished and have died after by pass surgery. Granted you loss the weight very quickly but then you are left with all this hanging skin. This is why I opted for the lap band. It is slow progressive weight loss and it won' t be such a shock to my system and less worry of the unwanted hanging skin. yes Kaiser Hospitals are very addimate about pushing the by pass surgery vs the lap band. They do both surgeries but most of their meetings and information is focused around the by pass. I am with you, why would you push something that is less safe and has a higher death rate. I pass.