New to Toronto!!!Need a fill!!!

kintime · August 22, 2009

I haven't found some of the earlier post on here to be very helpful. I was banded in the U.S. about 1 year and 1/2 now. I recently moved to Toronto and am looking for a place to get a fill. I tried to look for a fill center but it seems there aren't any in Toronto that does outside patients. Can someone recommend a place or a doctor/nurse in the GTA that can do a fill for me? Thanks.

Kin

so done with it all · August 22, 2009

We don't have fill centres in Canada like you do in the States. You could contact some of the clinics that do bands in Toronto and see if they will take you on as a patient but it might be costly. They won't just do 1 fill like the fill centres do, they sell you a whole package usually if they will even take you on.

There is TLBC/Slimband, SWLC, CIBO and one at Humber River Hospital. It's worth a call to find out what they could do for you if anything.

kintime · August 22, 2009

We don't have fill centres in Canada like you do in the States. You could contact some of the clinics that do bands in Toronto and see if they will take you on as a patient but it might be costly. They won't just do 1 fill like the fill centres do, they sell you a whole package usually if they will even take you on.
There is TLBC/Slimband, SWLC, CIBO and one at Humber River Hospital. It's worth a call to find out what they could do for you if anything.

This is what the earliers post suggested but I wasn't sure if it was specifically for patients from Mexico and abroad.

What about Quebec? Are there any places there? The thought of having to go to NYC everytime I need a fill seems a bit

irrational and expensive. Any other suggestions would greatly be appreciated. Thanks so much.

kintime · August 22, 2009

It's as if patients are being penalized for not having had surgery with their clinic. I see all this talk about Mexico, but what about people who got their bands from the States or Europe. Now I'm in this weird limbo. I'm really hoping to find someone b/c it would really be ridiculous.

so done with it all · August 22, 2009

There's a user on here named Hanbe that had once posted that she knows of a fill nurse and for anyone to contact her if they needed a fill/defill. I can't find her post right now but if I do, I'll post the link for you.

Lapband is not covered by insurance here so we all end up self paying and the clinics are private and usually only service their own clients since they have lots of them. And if they take on a patient from a different surgeon, they then become responsible for them for more than their fills according to how our health laws work here. It might seem like they are penalizing you but really it's just a very different system and nothing more.

so done with it all · August 22, 2009

Here is Hanbe's profile. You could private message her and ask her for the name. I found the comment she made but it's in a 10 page thread so best to just message her. LOL

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/members/54959.html

kintime · August 23, 2009

Thanks so much, this is so helpful. I really appreciate it.

Doddie63 · August 26, 2009

You might want to search the internet for a fill centre just over the border in a City closer than NYC. I live in Vancouver and there is a fill centre in Washington state just a few hours away. Might be the same in the east.