watergirl

Just to let you all know, my mother saw her surgeon and he is taking her lap-band out tomorrow. She was starting to feel faint because of the lack of nutrition. Boy is she upset. That will make it four operations in total for the lap-band and no weight loss to show for it. Her body just wasnt meant to have a band in I suppose. Her specialist is still baffled.

My mum has had her lap band in for a few years now. She weighs around 130kg and hasnt lost a single kilo. She has had the band filled and unfilled, and it doesnt make any difference. The band has slipped up once and she had to have surgery to fix it, then it slipped down and had to have surgery to fix it. The specialist she has is very well known and has performed heaps of lap bands. My mum is the only "failure" he has had. She doesnt have any fluid in her band at the moment, yet cant keep anything other than water, tea, yoghurt and thin soup down. If she dares to eat anything else, she is vomiting for hours, no matter how much she chews it and how long it takes her to eat it. Has anyone else experienced this? What can she do now? She only become over weight in her late 30's and is now 55. She has never eaten "like a fat person" ie never eats junk food, chocolate, sweets etc. She is being treated for thyroid problems but all tests come back fine. Her cholesterol and blood pressure are also in the "normal" healthy ranges. So why no weight loss? Thanks for your comments.