ckhans

Hello, I had lap-band April 2004. The last few months, I had no restriction. After two fills with no luck, my doc said it appeared that I had a leak in the tube. He said I am the 6th patient with a leaky tube he's had to fix and he's had about the same number of defective ports. I had the tube fixed yesterday. The surgery went well - I have the port incision reopened along with 5 ot 6 punctures for the lap tools. The doc have the mfg, Inamed, there for the surgery to see that the tubing had split. I don't know if I'll get anything back from inamed - I am covered by insurance - but there appears to be some sort of reptitive issue. My doc said the 6 tube issues he has covers recent surgeries (3 months) back to my mine - almost 4 years. He says there is a new mfg that is coming out so possibly some market competitive will cause Inamed to do a better quality control job so we don't have to have the do-overs.