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I would be curious to see how many of us have had issues-I had mine removed 3 weeks ago....realistically it should have been 3 years ago!! Im hoping to get sleeved but have to Jump a few hurdles ,my surgeon is concerned about the damage the band did to my head as well as the damage done to my insides-long story on my blog if you want the deats. carol good luck with the sleeve id love to hear how it's going

So it's now exactly on week since having my "band" removed. I did 24 hours in hospital, I was quite well prepared for the pain as it was very similar to the band going in-the port site was a little bit sorer than the first time but i knew that would be the case given my port was flipped and surrounded by scar tissue so needed to be dug out! I was told by my original surgeon at my third or forth fill that my band was "slightly tilted but that's ok it won't make any difference at all" which was his reason for doing the fills under xray. When i started having troubles keeping anything down i sked if it could be because theband was "tilted" he assured me that no that's not it and that he'd meant the port?? He also "assured" me that if i was vomiting it was my own fault i was either eating too fast(no) to much(no) over too long a period(wtf??) or just to eating right...when i pointed out i some times had troubles with liquids in the morning he said it was in my head....Hence why i stopped going!! fast forward three years(so four years out and moved to a different state ) and Im not keeping very much of anything down ,what i can keep down are generally sliders,I've gained a lot of what i lost and im having trouble swallowing so i finally fessed up to my GP(pcp) that i had a band and what trobles i was having-she sent me for bloods and a barrium...I had/have esopheagal dysmobility which is why i now have trouble swallowing and nearly all bloods were tanked out well below "low" levels. I found a surgeon who wasn't going to try to push me to be rebanded and set a date-thankfully he slotted me in pretty fast-surgery went well and i spoke to the surgeon a few hours later,He let me know that NONE of this had been my fault The original surgeon had placed the band in the wrong spot-too low and on an angle,it had at some stage sllipped from there,not a big slip,but enough to make more scar tissue,the port was totally flipped and had been for some time it also had A LOT of scar tissue around it. I regret that i ever got the band,I wish when i had asked the surgeon initially about sleeves and RNY that i had pushed him when he had responded with"your BMI isn't high enough" I found out later he ONLY did the band and my BMI would have been ok for a Sleeve. I don't wish anyone with a band anything except happiness success and for it to work as it's supposed to but statistically speaking that's not going to be the case for alot of people. Please don't bother to respond to this if your some 5 month out band cheerleader that thinks you know everything and wants to "bash me" for "bashing the band" that s not what im doing -I'm putting forth an honest situation you may be met with in the future and quite honestly im not intrested in your opinion!! Good luck guys xxx

Hey Woodie83 and CHI-Girl thanks for the positive words...Much appreciated!!

My motivation was to be Healthy...Looking awesome was going to be the icing on the cake!! I just had my band removed after 4 years-It didn't make me healthy,It made me thinner for awhile and then it just made me sick, Literally, Please please look into all the wls available to you especially if your doing this to fall pregnant-statistically you WILL have more surgeries with the band weather to fix a flip/slip or removal or reband. I just went through three pretty scary years with this and im far from alone you need to look up the failed band sites and the negative stories as well as the posotive you also need to look into people that are 3,4,5,8,10 years out not just the ones that are 6 months or 18 months!! I wish you all the best and i hope that you have a beautiflu and healthy pregnancy when the time comes.

Out out outity out!! Bands out im a little sore but omg YAY!!!!!

Chi-Girl...you are so lucky to be able to eat veg!! I could only eat it if the life was cooked out of it and even then it usually came back up...I had resorted to juicing all my veg for the day just to try and get some in!! I hope your friend gets her band troubles sortedmine didn't really amp up until almost a year out and then it took me another 3 to get the courage up to fix it!! I love hearing about people that are more than 18months out and are doing well with the band,you dont hear it all that much especially not three years out-Good luck i hope you stay on the happy side of the band :-) falling leaves-Yes i had it just over 4 years if you want to know my reasons for removal i have two blogs on here one from early days of the band and this one more around my removal- I stopped posting pretty early on after being made to feel like I had failed my band when in fact My surgeon failed me and the band faile me-Good luck to you as well.

My advice would be to do as much research on the positive and Negatives as possible-especially the statistics for 3,5 and 10 years out-the band can be great but it's not for everyone and sometimes the people that are singing it's praises at one year are dealing with a totally different sitaution at 2 or three years. I think its fantastic that your looking into ways to make yourself healthier(and thinner)just remember that lapband is not the be all and end all and as for it being the "least invasive" it also has the highest revision/repair surgeries. Good luck with whichever way you choose to go i wish you lots of health and happiness :-)

2muchfun....Not to be a b***h but at 5 months out i was singing the praises of this thing even with the what i thought were mild issues-your 5 months out you have no idea what your talking about and i pray to god you don't go through what i've been through which is mild in comparision to some others,Speaking to the Surgeon today it was pointed out to me when i said that i felt like a failure that he's taken more bands out this year than he's been asked to put in and that removal rates were nearing 40%,4 years ago i was told 1% by my then surgeon. Yes i'm angry i have esophageal dysmotility from all the vomiting which should have been looked at early on but i was told i was lazy/eating to fast/eating to much/silly/whinging/imagining i was also told today my post is totally flipped-it was always tilted and my band is severly slipped AND after having all my xrays(all my fills were dione under xray with barrium) commpared you can see it had slipped slightly whilst still seeing the original surgeon-I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE ANGRY! go look up all the failed band boards and groups!! Lageniafaye,Stephanie81 and Theresa'smom415-Thankyou i appreciate your comments. Im getting it Removed next week but because of how much damage the new surgeon is anticipating he thinks i'll need to wait three months to heal before i can revise he also wants to see how my osophegus goes in that time.

Lap bands are horrible-After four horrendous years im getting mine out,4 years of constant vomiting,4 years of acid reflux,4 years of flucuating weight and the weight i did loose was NOT worth the pain im in,NO I’m not overfilled haven’t had a fill in over 3 years YES i chew chew chew until the food is liquid…Do your research look up how many revisions are being done now from the band NO it’s not the person failing the band. This is NOT a great solution it’ll cause you more problems than it’ll solve look into what other wls you can get! I researched the band for years before i went through with it-if i had held off a year i would have seen the negative posts and stories that started to appear,when i was looking into it i looked for the negative stories I looked for what could go wrong and the few i came across i thought "that dosen't sound right' but then i started living those things and i see that I'm not alone. Why are the doctors not being more honest about the revisions? why are they still doing this on MO and SMO -the chances of it working are "slim"to none. I so wanted this to work,I so wanted to be a "success" and technically i was a success i lost over 2/3rd of my weight and then i was left depressed and feeling like an absolute loser as it slowly crept back on-no matter what i did,I excersised and excersised but somehow ended up heading back towards my start weight-Im not at that weight and i won't get there either. I see the surgeon in 4 days i hope he will be the one to remove this awful thing. I want to be able to eat vegetables,I want to be able to eat meat I want to be able to eat healthy food not just the crap i can slip past the band.

What an effing nightmare!! I can't wait to get this nasty little thing out. My time has come-three horrific years is three more than i should have done-to be able to eat and DRINK without vomiting...that's the prize i see in sight~

So since my last fill i have actually been losing at a reasonably good pace which is great because i was seriously starting to think it wasn't going to work for me no matter how much exercise i was doing it was'nt really budging.......it is now . I weighed myself this morning and it was 88.5 kg so thats 26.4 kg GONE FOREVER-im almost at half way now which is awesome but kinda scarey aswell as much as i WANT to be thin and i do i really really do its almost like im scared to be there, Im scared of not having the imperfection of fat to hide behind and if im not fat anymore people will see that i have other imperfections and faults and for some reason that scares me to the point of having sabotaged/given up my other weight loss attempts. I think maybe i just need to lose a bit more get a bit more flexible and kick myself in my own butt........

So since my last fill i have actually been losing at a reasonably good pace which is great because i was seriously starting to think it wasn't going to work for me no matter how much exercise i was doing it was'nt really budging.......it is now . I weighed myself this morning and it was 88.5 kg so thats 26.4 kg GONE FOREVER-im almost at half way now which is awesome but kinda scarey aswell as much as i WANT to be thin and i do i really really do its almost like im scared to be there, Im scared of not having the imperfection of fat to hide behind and if im not fat anymore people will see that i have other imperfections and faults and for some reason that scares me to the point of having sabotaged/given up my other weight loss attempts. I think maybe i just need to lose a bit more get a bit more flexible and kick myself in my own butt........

Butiful princes the medicare number you will need to quote to the heath insurance is 30511....thats the number that covers bariatric surgery xxScarlett

Oh my god i so get it ,you could have taken those words straight out of my head....i have dessert now and then but only thing's iv made that are low in fat/calories. 41.6 is an awesome loss in three months and you should be proud of yourself good on you for making this choice and wrapping your ead around it so well xx

Yay me i weighed myself this morning and im 99.02 kg ....so i'v finally cracked the 100 mark thankgod ,withall the none fills and cockups from my dr i honestly wondered if i was ever going to start losing

Yay me i weighed myself this morning and im 99.02 kg ....so i'v finally cracked the 100 mark thankgod ,withall the none fills and cockups from my dr i honestly wondered if i was ever going to start losing

Butiful princes....here abouts in nsw are you? medicare only pay a very very small amount towards your surgery,can youi take out private health for it as that would save you asubstantial amount even if you take into accont the amount you pay out to the insurance,i took out hcf cover waited the year(it went very fast) and only paid 2x$50 excess per night payments for my surgery BUT it depends on your surgeon as othres with hcf have ben out of pocket any where up to $,5000

Well done Josh thats an amazing achievment you must be absolutly stocked with how well you're doing

yea im really slack at updating this..... so i had a fill of 5ml in my 10ml band 8 weeks ago told my dr i was still hungry several times which i thought was really odd cause im thinking 5ml first fill is pretty big and he keeps telling me i need to drink more water,Fast forward 6 weeks and iv bearly lost anything and my dr is'nt being all that nice about it even though im walking between 5km and 15 km a day so he decides i need another fill...sweet fine with me,so we're in the hospital under the x-ray machine in my oh so sexy hospital gown and he puts 3ml in my band i take a sip of barrium and it dosn't go down,no suprise im thinking i have 8ml in there but then he decided to pull it all out and measure what goes back in HELLO THERE"S ONLY 3ML so allllll that time i was saying i was hungry it was because he'd missed my port somehow and i had no fill....blaggghhh stupid man.....so in the past 2 weeks iv lost just over 3kg which is great but would have been fantastic if it was 6 weeks ago when it should have been....... iv only got 8 weeks till my party now so fingers crossed i keep the weight loss going between now andthen and get at least close to the goal i'd set for then XXXX

yea im really slack at updating this..... so i had a fill of 5ml in my 10ml band 8 weeks ago told my dr i was still hungry several times which i thought was really odd cause im thinking 5ml first fill is pretty big and he keeps telling me i need to drink more water,Fast forward 6 weeks and iv bearly lost anything and my dr is'nt being all that nice about it even though im walking between 5km and 15 km a day so he decides i need another fill...sweet fine with me,so we're in the hospital under the x-ray machine in my oh so sexy hospital gown and he puts 3ml in my band i take a sip of barrium and it dosn't go down,no suprise im thinking i have 8ml in there but then he decided to pull it all out and measure what goes back in HELLO THERE"S ONLY 3ML so allllll that time i was saying i was hungry it was because he'd missed my port somehow and i had no fill....blaggghhh stupid man.....so in the past 2 weeks iv lost just over 3kg which is great but would have been fantastic if it was 6 weeks ago when it should have been....... iv only got 8 weeks till my party now so fingers crossed i keep the weight loss going between now andthen and get at least close to the goal i'd set for then XXXX

sooooo im a shocker with doing the whole blog thing...i keep meaning to but get side tracked oh well I'v been getting really upset this week due to the fact that my scales keep flitting back and forth between 2 kg its been 4.5 weeks since my band went in and by the scales iv only lost 3-4 kgs depending on the day,i spoke to my gorgeous friend who was banded a few weeks before me and she told me to do my measurments so here they are neck : lost 2cm bust:lost 6.5cm waist:8cm hips:lost 11cm...yes 11 thighs:lost 3cm of each but the left is still 2cm bigger than the right wtf so im a bit happier now cause i know thats more than 4kgs must just mean iv built up some mean ass muscle with my walking:thumbup: Got my first fill last saturday 5ml ai a 10ml band don't really fell all that restricted and im sure i could eat more than im sposed to but at the moment im trying real hard to stick to the portion sizes drw wants me to have....in saying that as much as i don't feel full im not hungry for at least 3-4 hours after eating so somethings workin

sooooo im a shocker with doing the whole blog thing...i keep meaning to but get side tracked oh well I'v been getting really upset this week due to the fact that my scales keep flitting back and forth between 2 kg its been 4.5 weeks since my band went in and by the scales iv only lost 3-4 kgs depending on the day,i spoke to my gorgeous friend who was banded a few weeks before me and she told me to do my measurments so here they are neck : lost 2cm bust:lost 6.5cm waist:8cm hips:lost 11cm...yes 11 thighs:lost 3cm of each but the left is still 2cm bigger than the right wtf so im a bit happier now cause i know thats more than 4kgs must just mean iv built up some mean ass muscle with my walking:thumbup: Got my first fill last saturday 5ml ai a 10ml band don't really fell all that restricted and im sure i could eat more than im sposed to but at the moment im trying real hard to stick to the portion sizes drw wants me to have....in saying that as much as i don't feel full im not hungry for at least 3-4 hours after eating so somethings workin

angie of all 6 incisions i have only one is still alittle tender but i would'nt say sore the gaspain is annoying but i keep chewing the degas tabs and thats helping and my super wonderful friend ky told me to try deepheat on my back and chest....ahhhhhh bliss loving that deepheat....you'll be fine and you will wonder why you ever stressed ....good luck with it all : )