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Hello I had my surgery about 3 years ago with Dr Solomon in Torrance. I had the gastric sleeve, cost $750 (copay). Let me know if you have any more questions I'll be glad to help Sent from my SM-G920V using the BariatricPal App I am going to be self pay, as my insurance doesn't cover anything :'( Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Curious who your surgeon was eveyone? And what surgery did u all have? Cost? I am in the inland empire and looking into a revision. If anyone would like to share their experiences with me I'd appreciate it. Please msg me Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Where do you go for check ups and blood work? Your general practicioner? Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

So a few months ago I started regurgitating at night when I ate after 7pm. Went to see my doctor in May and he took all of the liquid 2.5 out my band and told me to wait a couple of months. I gained 15lbs!!! then went back for a fill in July 2016 for 1.75, and gained another 2lbs! Then went back for another fill in Aug.2016 to total 2.0 inside my band, now here I am in Oct 2016 and I've gained another 2lbs!!! And now my port area is sore I emailed my doctor and he said sometimes it gets sore if it's really close to the skin, but if it gets red he will have to see me and see what's going on. I've had my band since March of 2007 and never had any issues. Till now, and now I'm gaining weight I'm so stressed out, overwhelemed and just wish I had the money to get it removed and get a gastric by-pass. If only I could win the lottery to pay for the removal of the band and get a gastric by-pass better. My current insurance doesn't cover any of them which sucks! But the worst part is that I paid cash for my band in 2007 and not here I am gaining weight instead of loosing and no money to change to another surgery. I need a miracle!!!

Yes, even with refill of 2.5 I haven't lost the ones I gained since the unfill. I was hoping to atleast go back to the weight I was before the unfill :/ I've been feeling fine no reflux or regurgitation and looking into getting another appointment to get a endoscopy and a slight refill Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Anyone have Lap band & plication revised to Gastric bypass? Anyone used the new Oasis Hospital in Tijuana, BariatricPal Team MX???

Oh Lord :/ That's my whole reasoning for wanting a revision is that for the life of me I can't loose anything after getting the liquid out I've gained 15lbs and now that I have liquid put back in I can't even loose the 15lbs I gained!! apart from having some minor issues with my bad. Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Anyone had their weightloss surgery done at Oasis Hospital in TJ with BariatricPal TeamMX? Starting into look into getting my band and plication revised to a gastric bypass but can't afford my surgeons price :/ If anyone can share their experiences I would aprecciate it

Oh Lord :/ That's my whole reasoning for wanting a revision is that for the life of me I can't loose anything after getting the liquid out I've gained 15lbs and now that I have liquid put back in I can't even loose the 15lbs I gained!! apart from having some minor issues with my bad. Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Even if you just want a revision?

Anyone know if the docs or Doc Illan at BariatricPal Mx require a pre op diet if you want them to do a band & plication revision to Gastric bypass??? Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Those links lead to Oasis Hospital, BariatricPal Team MX Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Ooh k. Guess you decided not to go to Mexico for the surgery

Where did you have your surgery? Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

No, I'm researching plastic surgeons as well as surgeons to do a lap band and plication revision to Gastric bypass Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Thank will add it Yes have been looking at a few and even sent an email, no response yet. But will continue researching

Looking into this as well Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

I Have Aetna too and they won't cover any bariatric Surgeries Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Have you gone back to your surgeon to address your concerns? I would only use a surgeon for follow up that's listed on http://www.lapband.com/LWFindASpecialist . Many Bariatric surgeons are just interested in "cutting" and don't do a good job as Lap-Band surgeons and will suggest an unnecessary weight loss surgery revision. Yes went to see him in may of this yr. Xrays and barium swallow showed everything was fine but he took all my liquid out 2.5. July we did a fill of 1.75, did well and went back in sept to add .25 to make a total of 2.0 in my band. I actually posted earlier sharing my concerns and my journey since being banded and see if anyone maybe were going through the same thing as I am.

Just stumbled upon this thread as I am looking for some questions/concerns about my band aswell. I guess this year it was 13 yrs! Woow how awesome! Congrats! I was banded March 2007 and didn't have a big weightloss, but I was happy it was better then I have ever had. Yup and I tried it all. I getting close to my 10 yr anniversary and just started having some stumbles in my journey. I pray that that's all they are small stumbles and that I don't even up loosing it. And that I can keep it and continue on this Journey that changed my life even with just 56 lbs weightloss. Thanks for this forum it has help me with my concerns and questions! Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Will try to make this short. I was banded (self paid) in March 2007, started at 235 and got to 174. Was at 174 for many years, wouldn't gain and wouldn't loosee, and I was ok with that, but my doc said I was a good candidate for a plication and it would go hand in hand with the band. So March 2013 I self paid for the plication. I felt like it did nothing as I continued to stay at 174, didn't loose anything. up till may 2016. This year, may of 2016 I started regurgitating at night an would wake up drowning in my own puke. Went to se doctor, took xrays and barium swallow and everything looked good,my band looked good and he took out all 2.5 out of my band, just to give my esophagus/band a break for a couple of months. We waited a bit and in July, 2016 added 1.75 to my bad. Then was good so went back for another fill in sept, to total 2.0 on my band. Between all this I gained 16lbs. Seems like I'm gaining again and not loosing even after the fills. My doctor suggested getting it removed and having a gastric bypass instead. After my last fill in Sept 2016, I have a gained another 2-3lbs. And have had this small pressure/soreness that's on my chest right about my breast and goes to my back. I feel it more at night and when I inhale or exhale it gets a bit stronger with like a pinching feeling. It feels like my lungs hurt, went to seperate doctor thinking it was my lungs, and they found nothing. My lungs are good. I havr No regurgitation, not getting food stuck, Water goes down well. My doctor has mentioned a few times to have the band removed and converting it to a gastric bypass instead. And I'm ok with that. But here is where my depression comes in. After the Doctor found out my insurance won't cover the band removal nor pay the gastric by-pass, he said my band was fine and to keep working with it. But now I have this pressure/soreness and scared that it might be the band When I got my band back in 2007 it came out of my pocket. I used money that was gifted to me. So here I am depressed and having issues with my band. Insurance won't cover anything at all! I am broke as hell! My family and I lost everything a couple of yrs ago and have not been able to get out of this hole. We are living pay check to paycheck and sometimes don't even have enough for groceries. On top of all my family worries and stress I am now stressing out on loosing my band. I don't want to loose it and be fat all over again if I had the money I would do this in a heart beat. And getting financing is out of the question, our credit is trash so no one would finance us or give us a loan. Has anyone been in this predicament and found an insurance company that they could enroll in that covered a new surgery? Are there such thing as getting an insurance company that will cover it that won't cost and arm and a leg and your 1st born? Has anyone found any other solutions? Anyone have any suggestions/advice or something that worked out for them and got the band removed and got another surgery? I pray daily so that I won't loose my band or if I do that God can provide a way possible for gastric bypass. I feel so lost, broken, sad, worried and depressed thinking that I will loose the band and not be able to get another type of surgery I don't want to go back to my old self, when I weighed so much. I had tried everything under the sun to loose weight and nothing workedm. getting the band was a life saver for me and my heart is in a million pieces thinking about the possibility of loosing it and not being able to get another surgery. Please God help me

At first I guess because of the unfill, he took out all 2.5 of it. And slowly put back a total of 2.0 into the band. Thought with that much in there it would atleast take me back to the weight I was before the unfill :/ Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Thank you, appreciate it Sent from my SM-G900V using the BariatricPal App

Anyone with the band and used or using truvision weightloss supplements?

Just out of curiosity, who has had the plication for the longest? Can you be so kind to put how long you've has it for?