I had the Lap Band in 2011, lost about 50 lbs and had lots of the normal complications. food not going down, productive burps, vomiting, resorting to slider foods, weight gain, port site pain, etc. So after the birth of my son I decided to have my Lap Band removed in May (2014). I spoke to my doc about revision, he was ok with it but I had to do all the presurgery crap again due to staff not properly documenting. They were afraid my insurance would not cover revision if I didn't jump through the hoops again because ins wouldn't cover it for just having port pain. So I have one more family doc appt, my psych eval was good and she approved me for surgery, I got my date of Sept 16th last week, and I am finding myself going back and forth questioning whether or not I am ready for this. For me, it's now or never. I am 25 so am still under my mothers ins which pays 100% for surgery, however in Nov I will be 26 and I will carry insurance from the hospital I work at and the coverage sucks. My first thought is that I am terrified of complications. I am scared something will go wrong and I won't be here for my son(he's 4 months) and I get mad at myself thinking how selfish this is to want to risk all this just to be skinny? Am I crazy? I don't know if it's because its a more invasive surgery and it's permanent where as lap band wasn't, or if it's because I'm a mother now, but I am overcome by fear. Anyone else have this irrational fear almost stop you from going through with it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Love these questions! I have also had all these problems with the band and also had mine removed in may. Unfortunately, I have to go through all the insurance junk again because the nurses at my clinic never documented my complications and they were afraid my revision wouldn't be paid for if i didn't. I was ok'd for surgery after my psych eval yesterday and have an appt with my surgeon Aug 14th! Hoping to schedule in sept and so excited but as you said- very scared.
my US fill Dr had told me back in February of this year that the lapband has a 50% success rate for people who lose HALF of what they want to lose before it fails.
Sign me up as well.
I have spent a small fortune on the lapband, fills, unfills, upper GIs, fluoroscopies and finally removal. I could have paid for the sleeve 4x
Dreamer88 got a reaction from Angel_Whetstone in Sleeve scheduled for sept 16, band revision- Why am I so scared this time around?!
Dreamer88 got a reaction from stacielynntate in Prep time....which was more challenging....Band or Sleeve?