Advice and support groups dublin?

[xxnishxx 0]

I am new to these forums , i live in dublin and i am 18 months post op i got my band done in poland and fills with belgium surgery services and everything has gone great apart from my own dought! I have lost 30 kg so far but worry thats very little and im doing something wrong since some online post sayin in a yr people loosing 30kg with no exercise in a yr and i do try work out :/Am i eating right foods, am i eating too much or not enough and figuring out my own ways to fix stuck foods ect i have googled it alot but doesnt seem to be a lot of good support or after care in dublin am i looking in the wrong places or is there just none??

[parisshel 1,892]

I'm not in Dublin (I'm in Paris) but my experience has been there are fewer and fewer support services for bandsters because fewer bands are being placed. This is a bit scary to me, because we all need to call in support teams from time to time (not to mention band issues....who is going to help us if we show up in an ER and no one knows what to do with a slipped or prolapsed band? My biggest fear is having a band problem while traveling (I used to travel a lot, not so much anymore) and finding myself in a city where lapbands had been supplanted by other WLS.

Do you actually have to go to Belgium for your fills? Yikes.

There are several bandsters on here that are in London. It's not close, but it's not that far, either. I might suggest you see what resources there are in London, for example.

[xxnishxx 0]

Thanks for the reply @@parisshel ,, i have been quite lucky with the band so far i got the minimizer band so its sewn to my stomack so cant slip thank god! I have had 1 bad experiance were i ended up in A&E and my god i was waiting 9+ hours to be seen it was traumatising but ended up being food stuck when it passed the band :/ so just on Fiber gel and liquids for a few days

i still travel but always carry a few tabs like anti bloating,pain killers,fiber filled gel and hydration suppliments incase anything does ever go wrong!

Oh and no my doc comes to a clinic in dublin once a month and has a nurse on call for emergency defills

Have you got you band in long??