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Hi there!

I'm a 35 year old married female living in the Seattle area. I was banded in 2004 by Dr. Kuri and his great team in Mexico. Surgery went off without a hitch and in my first year I lost nearly 70 pounds.

I got pregnant with my first child in 2006, gained all of my lost weight back... went back to fills and fighting to get the weight off again, but never found that sweet spot again.

I was contemplating a revision to RNY and three days before I was to go in for that surgery my insurance pulled the rug out and said "Ooops! Our bad - we can not cover the revision because you are no longer fat enough".. in so many words.

Another year went by, my weight was up and down... in the gym starving myself with a trainer I can get it off, but in "real life" not so much.

During this time I really struggled with feelings of failure, and all things associated with my band not working - the "my fault" stuff.

I got pregnant with my second (and final) baby summer 2009, and following my hospital stay, I had a bad reaction to a medicine that caused major inflammation in my esophagus and viola! My local fill/follow up doctor found that there was a break in my tubing near my port!!

So now it all made sense.. no wonder my band was not working!?!

So now I am scheduled for a repair surgery on Monday 1/3/11, and basically starting over in every way.

Back to my original weight ((sadly)), and aiming for 100lbs.

Thanks, and keep well!

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