Suz

PS the last seminar I went to was with CORI and their micropouch surgery, I considered that for a while too. Bet that's who you had.

I was going to go with Dr Deol too, she's the one who told me about why the bypass would not be good for me. She does both the RNY and the band so she's not just trying to get your money. She does however require $1500.00 up front out of pocket before she will do the surgery. It's for the first year of post op care. I don't have that kind of money. If she would let me pay at each visit I think my insurance would cover it, but they are not gonna give me $1500.00 up front. So I have been looking around and I'm scheduled for a seminar in Port Huron on Aug 30. ( Much to my husband's dismay, he thought Dr Deol was hot) Twining is just south west of Tawas, north of Standish. If you drive by don't blink, you'll miss it.

Hello fellow Michigander, If I did not have IBS I would have had the RNY because I need a lot of help getting off my sugar addiction. After RNY you can't eat sugar without getting really sick and with IBS it would be worse because it would be near impossible to avoid dehydration. There's a lot of folks who after a few years don't dump so bad and that's exactly why they gain the weight back. If I had gone through all the suffering of a RNY and got through my window of oportunity weight loss stage I'd be damned if I'd try to see if I could eat stuff I know I shouldn't and haven't missed just to defeat the purpose of the surgery. All that pain and money and insurance problems for what? an ice cream cone! Well enough of that, does the band cause any dumping syndrome? Why do you have to worry about protein if there's no malabsortion? Is it ok to follow the South Beach Diet after you can eat solids again? What about meds, I'm on a lot of meds that probably will still be neccesary after being banded, will I be able to take those without crushing ? What about the long acting meds ?