seems to me, you can either kill yourself (slowly) being obese (and all that comes with it, diabete's, joint problems, heart problems etc) or you can get a surgery and have a tool placed around your stomach to help you not eat as much.
sure there maybe complications and then again maybe not.
any surgery could have issues, not just the lapband.
i am not as experienced as some (jean who wrote a band bible)
but i can tell you that getting this band has made my life better.
i for one do not care what that report says. I printed it off and showed it to my dr last month (as i have seen it before). and my friend tmf pointed out, it was reference to 151 patients and it unfair to bunch the whole lot of banders in this.
its up to you to make the band work.
not the other way around.