docsdeb

Hello Kim, I too will be banded in Mexico. My doctor is Miguel Zapata in Monterrey. I was just wondering who and where yours was, also a question. Did your Doctor sitich your incisions or did he glue them. This a conern of mine since I will be done in Mexico but am not schedule for my first fill until Nov 12. Thanks, Docsdeb

I haven't been banded yet, but my scheduled date is Sept 28th. I will be happy to post my progress that is if there is any, here. I am going to be banded by Dr. Miguel Zapata in Monterrey,MX. Wish me luck and maybe we can get some more to post here that has also had theirs done there. I am from East Tennessee and will have my fills done in Nashville. Let me know how you have done and how much weight you have lost. I love success stories!!!! Docsdeb:clap2:

Yes another newbie, and I haven't even been banded yet. My date is Sept 28 in Monterrey,MX with Dr. Miguel Zapata. I have been reading and reading and reading until I am so confused I don't even know now if I want the surgery. I had to take out a loan, which to me is worth it since my BC of TN abosoultely under no circumstances will pay for weight loss surgery. Now I'm reading all these posts of no weight loss, very slow weight loss, great weight loss and so on. I already have an appt 8 wks post op with Dr. Hugh Houston in Nashville for my first fill. He 'adopts' those who have their bands done in MX and I have heard nothing but great things about him. He too does the lap band surgery but for thousands more than what I'm paying. I know I have sleep apnea, but have never had a sleep study done but I have informed the Dr. of this, he has not required a pre op diet for the surgery as most others do in the US. I'm just going back and forth here but as I said I'm so confused. I have read on here the dangers of sleep apnea and anethesia, that freaks me out, my only fear is that I won't wake up but then again I won't know it anyway and it would be a pleasant way to leave this world I guess. I am having this surgery to aid me in losing 114lbs to my goal weight. If I'm not going to lose the weight what is the point of all the stress I have already put myself and my family through by going to Mexico, borrowing money, and then coming home to only problems and more stress. Before I started reading so much about pre-op and post-op stuff I was heady with excitement for my new journey and not having to worry about the fire hazzard when wearing corduroy this winter, now I am totally depressed and just about ready to chuck it all and stay fat. I don't expect it to be a breeze, I know I will have to do my part, but I didn't realize there were as many problems with this as I am finding out. Yes I want to lose the weight hopefully withing a year but if it takes a little longer I'm ok with that, but I'm reading on here people who have been through hell and back 2,3 and 4 years out and still not at goal, that just blows me away. Bless their hearts and they still keep at it. I guess I'm just not that patient. I am having very serious doubts here and that bothers me too. I thought this was the solution for me, now I'm just freaked. I know this may just be pre surgery jitters, and probably sounds whiny and selfish, and I don't expect anyone to sympathize I guess I just needed to vent and maybe just stop reading for a while. Brain overload, but if any one was to take pity I wouldn't throw rocks at ya! docsdeb:faint:

I am so excited, the wife of one of the guys that my husband works for just called me because my husband told her husband we were going to Mexico to get banded. She is already is scheduled for Sept 26th in Georgia and had to refi their house to pay the 14,000.00 for it. She wanted to know where to go to read about where I was going so she could decide is she wanted to go there and have hers done too. She said if she liked what she seen she would try and get hers scheduled the same day and even fly down with me and my husband. How cool is that, to have somone from home get banded at the same time and a buddy to go through this with together. I'm less nervous already. I worry about panic attacks, as I have suffered from them since I was in my twenties, sometimes I will just be sitting watching tv and I will feel like my throat is closing in. I have to do some serious debtalking to get it to go away and sometimes it doesn't all the way but I deal with it. I have read on all the lapband sites the dysphagia is a complication and I have thought, OMG if that happens to me I will surely panic to death. but I'm trying very hard to believe that it won't and keep positive. I hoping that I will be so focused on all the other stuff I need to do and keep up with that I won't have time to worry about it. Keep us pre-oppies in your prayers. Hey Mary-2b150 thanks for helping me get my ticker,only how do you move it when you start losing, not that I need to now, just planning ahead as usual. I already have my first fill appt with a lapband surgeon in my area who 'adopts' those of us who get banded in Mexico. The girl there said she was so glad I called before getting banded and that they rarely ever see any complications from those who have. Good to know, made me feel better. Rambling too much, later :whoo: Docsdeb

I am eternally grateful for all of your insights. I have taken everything under consideration and I am going to proceed as planned. I have decided after reading more on here that even though I have not been instructed to do so, I am going to start a liquid diet 2 wks prior to surgery to help shrink my liver. It can't hurt and can only help the surgeon. I have also read about the hair loss and even though I can't afford to lose any, everyone does say it grows back and it is temporary although very frightening! I do not look forward to that. I will just have to be brave and soldier through whatever comes my way and just know in whom I believe in will be there every step of the way and whatever will be will be. I have tremendous faith in my savior! Now if someone would just help guide me through puttong one of those cute little tickers on my posts I would be so happy. I have tried to do so in the past and have never been able to do it. I am not computer illiterate so I don't understand what my problem is?? I would love to dress up my posts as everyone else does so that I too can post my progress. Believe me, if this works and I do start dropping the the LB's, there will def. be lots of before and after pics. I will take the first pic at the hospital before surgery. It's 3 weeks and counting! Thanks again Docsdeb:whoo: