Hi i am Amber and i just started looking into this

utopianaurora · March 14, 2011

Hello! I am Amber! I weigh 240-245 depends on the day. The "smallest" i have ever been was in high school when i was taking diet pills and got down to 160. Now i am on blood thinners, anxiety meds, and going to physical therapy for a misaligned hip( not because of the diet pills ). awesome! In 2008 I was around 180, but then i got about 6 blood clots and could barely walk and gained all of these lovely pounds in a few short months. I looked into gastric bypass and it looked a little too permanent and scary for a 24 year old grad student =) Also if i want to have babies i would like to be able to have my stomach go back to "normal". Can i get a few pros and cons of the Lap Band? Does everyone have to stay 1 night over? i read somewhere that it can be put in and go home an hour later?

Thanks

-Amber

staggs_jamie · March 14, 2011

Amber,

Hello. I was banded last August. My surgery was out-patient. I don't think it was as quick as one hour, but I went in early a.m. and was home by that afternoon. My recovery took about a week. I took two weeks off of work, but could have gone back sooner. To me, the pro's are: 1) Not as drastic a surgery, 2) hospital time and recovery time were minimal, 3) slower weight loss, no dumping, no malabsorption. A few cons: 1) It can be frustrating cause weight loss is slow, lol, 2) It takes time to find the 'sweet spot' of the right amount of saline fill, 3) If you are too tight, you face stuck episodes and vomiting.

Hope this helps.

Jamie

Hello! I am Amber! I weigh 240-245 depends on the day. The "smallest" i have ever been was in high school when i was taking diet pills and got down to 160. Now i am on blood thinners, anxiety meds, and going to physical therapy for a misaligned hip( not because of the diet pills ). awesome! In 2008 I was around 180, but then i got about 6 blood clots and could barely walk and gained all of these lovely pounds in a few short months. I looked into gastric bypass and it looked a little too permanent and scary for a 24 year old grad student =) Also if i want to have babies i would like to be able to have my stomach go back to "normal". Can i get a few pros and cons of the Lap Band? Does everyone have to stay 1 night over? i read somewhere that it can be put in and go home an hour later?

Thanks

-Amber

themons · March 14, 2011

Hello! I am Amber! I weigh 240-245 depends on the day. The "smallest" i have ever been was in high school when i was taking diet pills and got down to 160. Now i am on blood thinners, anxiety meds, and going to physical therapy for a misaligned hip( not because of the diet pills ). awesome! In 2008 I was around 180, but then i got about 6 blood clots and could barely walk and gained all of these lovely pounds in a few short months. I looked into gastric bypass and it looked a little too permanent and scary for a 24 year old grad student =) Also if i want to have babies i would like to be able to have my stomach go back to "normal". Can i get a few pros and cons of the Lap Band? Does everyone have to stay 1 night over? i read somewhere that it can be put in and go home an hour later?

Thanks

-Amber

Hi, I was banded on 3/7. I had surgery at 10:30 a.m. and left the hospital at 2:30 p.m. I was told by my surgeon, I had the option to leave after my two-hr. stay in recovery or stay overnight. Up to me. I left at 2:30 p.m. Just remember, once you wake up and feel up to it, tell the nurse you want to get up and walk. If you don't walk, you may have pain from gas. And, I mean PAIN. Walk in the hospital as much as you can. I did, and experienced not one bit of cramping or pain.

utopianaurora · March 14, 2011

Thanks for a quick response. Did u have to wait the 6 months? After you find your 'sweet spot' do u stop going in for fills?

Amber,

Hello. I was banded last August. My surgery was out-patient. I don't think it was as quick as one hour, but I went in early a.m. and was home by that afternoon. My recovery took about a week. I took two weeks off of work, but could have gone back sooner. To me, the pro's are: 1) Not as drastic a surgery, 2) hospital time and recovery time were minimal, 3) slower weight loss, no dumping, no malabsorption. A few cons: 1) It can be frustrating cause weight loss is slow, lol, 2) It takes time to find the 'sweet spot' of the right amount of saline fill, 3) If you are too tight, you face stuck episodes and vomiting.

Hope this helps.

Jamie

utopianaurora · March 14, 2011

Thanks for the tip! and good luck to you happy losing!

Hi, I was banded on 3/7. I had surgery at 10:30 a.m. and left the hospital at 2:30 p.m. I was told by my surgeon, I had the option to leave after my two-hr. stay in recovery or stay overnight. Up to me. I left at 2:30 p.m. Just remember, once you wake up and feel up to it, tell the nurse you want to get up and walk. If you don't walk, you may have pain from gas. And, I mean PAIN. Walk in the hospital as much as you can. I did, and experienced not one bit of cramping or pain.