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Hello everyone, I am new, not banded and in the researching phase. Do you guys ever hear from bandsters that were done 6-7 years ago. I just wonder how most of them are doing? I am like most of you, really worried about paying for complications. Is it worth it?

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Nursemichelle, I am thinking along the same lines as you are and asked the same question. It would set my mind more at ease to hear from people that far out.

To be honest, the only people I have seen on boards that are farther out (3 years) have eroded it seems. I hope someone can correct me if I'm wrong about that observation.

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I asked the same thing when I first started posting. Tizag, who is from Israel, responded that they have been doing it about 10 years there. She said that most of the people she knows who have had it that long have had to have another surgery for one reason or another.

I appreciated that information but decided to have the surgery anyway...I'm guaranteed to have problems related to super MO within 10 years, too, and this ultimately seemed worth the risk to me.

Emily

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