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Going to my first seminar this Thursday. I am ready but scared at the same time. food security blanket and all that. Doesn't help that I am a professional chef also so I have questions of how this will affect me professionally also because there truly is nothing I would rather do than cook. But I hate crawling up my stairs after a rough day running all over hell and back from my feet hurting, not knowing if my knee ( which I have wrecked a few times falling at work places) will buckle on me, or if my back will go out from my degenerative disks. And I have just hit early thirties. I just want to get off the painkillers and stop being exhausted all the time even on my days off.

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I went to my first seminar a week ago today, and it was so informative and exciting. It makes you happy to even think about choosing to look into lap band. There is so much useful information and the surgeon was ready to answer everyone's questions. I had a ton!

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I hope your seminar went well GoodLuck

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I went to my first seminar this evening with a friend from work very informative and very excited to get the ball rolling. Please feel free and respond or send me an email message, Let me know what to expect in my consultation next thursday the 21st. Thanks gina

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I hope you enjoyed your seminar and found a lot of good info :)

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Thanks guys, it was a good seminar, though it was about all the weight loss surgeries, not just the band. The doctor didn't really go into too much about the band, the over view on would say. He is a sleeve fan but he did say that he recommends getting just the band if you want kids because of nutritional concerns for the baby with the others. Which is fine because that is what I wanted any ways. It was a "positive" seminar so not a lot of negatives were really discussed, and I think I was the only one there out of like 30 people taking notes about all this stuff.and only about 4 of us were asking questions. What is nice is that the Dr. Is admit about seeing his patients for the rest of their lives ( or having them see a surgeon that he refers when he tires) "we will track you down and do follow ups" so that is nice. And he said that if we start down this path that we would be doing a lot of talking to each other, and that should clear up any questions. So I made my PCP appointment for next week for my referral and my letter of recommendation but might have to wait until August to see the dr because he is taking July off. I am ready, scared..nervous, but very ready. I am tired of being in pain. I am 32 and I have told many people that if I was a horse they would have put me down a long time ago because of how much of a wreck I am with my knees and back.

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