Erosion, The Real Facts

[DeLarla 22]

Please, somebody send the men in the white coats with some pretty pills that will keep me out of this whacky thread!

I'm literally laughing my ass off over what this thread turned into. It's getting nowhere. If anyone wants info on erosion, here it is: IT HAPPENS, and it sucks! And it can happen to you! And even if you don't feel like getting an endoscopy, it can still happen to YOU. YOU might be eroded right this very minute. But if you're like Chuck Norris, you won't care.

What else can I help you with? GOOD NIGHT!

[itsyvonne 0]

I can see why there is a focus on erosion as a possible complication of banding on lapbandtalk (due to the personal experiences with it). Statistically, however, it seems we are much more likely to experience slippage. Slippage is something over which we might possibly also have some measure of control ... by avoiding PBing/vomiting.

The research quoted by Dr. Pleatman above states that there was a slippage rate of 25% in the first 500 patients, and 4.7% in the last 600 patients. Erosion, on the other hand, was 3% in the first 500 patients, and 0% in the last 600 patients.

-Yvonne

1st band - july 2002, slipped march 2005

2nd band - may 2005

BMI 39/24/at goal

[DevilMayKare 1]

Please, somebody send the men in the white coats with some pretty pills that will keep me out of this whacky thread!

Please, PUHLEEEEEEZE men in white coats will you send some pretty pills to Delarla before she ballisticalizes again?

And while you'r at it, send some my way too? What were those pills in Brave New World... soma? yeah, that oughta do it.

[DeLarla 22]

It's always a better week when you start out laughing!

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris can make a woman climax by simply pointing at her and saying "Booya".

Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

Chuck Norris was banded without novacaine. He doesn't get endoscopies.

[NeenBand 7]

There is no Theory of Evolution, it's just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.

[Zoe 6]

Thanks to Drs. Ortiz and Pleatman for offering medical information on what can be a highly emotional subject. I haven't read all the posts on this long thread -- I don't have that many years of life left -- but what I've read has convinced me to have Dr. Rumbaut, who performed my surgery, check me out in the next few months.

A quick word to the Mexophobes: As many have already pointed out, a lot of the Mexican band surgeons are among the best-trained, experienced, and respected in the world. When I first returned from my surgery, I posted here on a few unknowing friends and acquaintances who assumed I was being hacked with a machete behind a lone cactus with only a swig of tequila for anesthesia. Instead, I had excellent care at a first-rate medical facility. Yes, like anywhere, some doctors are subpar. But when you hear "surgery in Mexico," if you picture a delapidated cantina supervised by a Pancho Villa imitator, please think again.

Z

(not a shill for any doc or for the Mexican tourism bureau!)

[donali 57]

a few unknowing friends and acquaintances who assumed I was being hacked with a machete behind a lone cactus with only a swig of tequila for anesthesia.

BWAHHAHAHAHAA

That's what my Mom thought when I told her I was going there....

P.S. - It wasn't like that at all.... ROFLMAO!

["Just" Paul 1]

I never questioned the surgical skills of the Mexican doctors, or the quality and cleanliness of their facilities.

I just questioned the ability and quality of aftercare of a doctor thousands of miles away vs. a local doc...

I just questioned those who look at this as just a surgical procedure, and not a long term plan involving participation from a team of professionals easily accessible to the weight loss patient.

Don't confuse the two. A great surgeon in a clean hospital is only a small fraction of the Lap Band weight loss process. If you do not understand that going in, and are just looking at the surgery and not pre and aftercare, then you will fail.

[donali 57]

A great surgeon in a clean hospital is only a small fraction of the Lap Band weight loss process. If you do not understand that going in, and are just looking at the surgery and not pre and aftercare, then you will fail.

:couch2: :clap:

Truer words were never spoken!

[Nykee 13]

big paul)

I just questioned those who look at this as just a surgical procedure, and not a long term plan involving participation from a team of professionals easily accessible to the weight loss patient.

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I did this, it was a mistake,

big paul)

Don't confuse the two. A great surgeon in a clean hospital is only a small fraction of the Lap Band weight loss process.

If you do not understand that going in, and are just looking at the surgery and not pre and aftercare, then you will fail.

girl)

I am learing as I go..

I dont think I am going to FOR SURE fail cuz of that.<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

[donali 57]

I dont think I am going to FOR SURE fail cuz of that.

Nykee, you're right. I think the rest of that thought was that for people to succeed they will eventually have to change their way of thinking to the long term.

That's what I meant, anyway. And you're right to remind us that there are no guarantees regardless, for success or failure. There is just likelihood, and odds.

:hugs: