The band is not good do not do it! PLEASE! save your self the money!

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I get the feeling you are young and do not have the perspective of someone who has spent decades yoyo dieting only to gain back more than I lost. May I ask roughly how old you are?

Have you have followup appointments and fills, or have you give up completely shortly after the surgery? As I understand it the band is empty when put in place, and if you gave up and did not follow through it is not fair to say that you did not lose any weight.

I have done lots of research on this and even watched videos of the real surgery rather than the pretty animations, I know what I am in for down to every cut and stitch as well as the complications that can occur. I have pain in my back anytime i stand for more than 10 minutes, I am at the point that I would trade that off for nearly any complication short of mortality. My knees get stiff from minimal exercise. Without the surgery and weight loss my arthritis and backpain will only get worse.

Knowing what I know now, I would like to say if I could go back to 20 and do it then I would have, but without the life experience I know I could not have committed to the disipline required to follow a healthy diet. I can honestly say at that stage I would not have stopped drinking and socializing as part of it, it would not have worked for me the. Now is the right time for me, I have the conviction, determination and willpower.

If I am correct, perhaps you will decide otherwise in several years after trying other things and give this another try. Try to work hard on those weight issues without medical assistance if that is how you chose to address it, but realize that statistics are not in your favor. If you are morbidly obese you have a 1% chance of success using natural methods.