Good luck to you all with your dates - I was banded in 2005 and just had to have mine replaced cause it was causing a gastric blockage. Remember ladies and gents, the WORST part of the whole thing is the gas pains from the lap procedure. Get your tired sore butticuses out of bed the nite of surgery and walk around on the hospital floor as much as you can if the doc says you are ambulatory and you had a lap procedure. The walking makes the gas not sit under your diaphram which HURTS LIKE HECK. There were no rooms for me in the hospital when I had my emergency replacement done last week so I could not walk around and I was in misery from the gas pains for days - needed IV pain meds for it which I didn't need the first go round - the incisions - not a whit. Walk Walk Walk Walk even if you are bent over like a question mark and you don't want to. I have had two lap bands put in and lost 120# - now weigh 135 down from 252. It works, I swear, and you will be so much happier for it. Mosey.
