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I am a newbie here as I consider which procedure I'm going to have. I want to THANK the OP--original poster "Dr-Patient" for that info!!! I found the links interesting and helpful. Whoever this 'toomuchfun' person is, sounds like he changed his first post since I last saw it the other day. Is he is bitter about the procedure he had done? Why even bother reading about anything else if you're post-op? Maybe he has toomuchfun causing chaos with others. Dr-P said "if interested." The link she posted first included slides that had medical reference sources, so (as someone else said, it wasn't "unsubstantiated". She wasn't giving her opinion, as she later posted. Dr-P also gave the words for what the source was--ASMBS...that IS the official bariatric surgeons group. DUH. I Googled it and there was an Obesity Week conference in November last year. So for the doubter to say "so called" conference...? The other link Dr-P provided WAS quite 'technical', and for sure, over my head for many slides so I understand why she didn't first include it, she was doing us a favor, but she DID pull from that link the important data for us all to see "IF INTERESTED". From what I see and according to my doctor, the lapband IS going out of favor, around the world. That's not the OPs doing; that's the data presented and well known by many people who do these procedures and talk to us, though it is still being done, just not as much because of complications. I wanted the band at first, but I now know three people who have had it removed, so I'm unsure what to have done. Given my BMI I might do the bypass. I have to do a lot of analytical reading for my work so I found TMFs rants so misguided. DP wasn't a "band denier". DP wasn't promoting one procedure or another. Dr-P had no agenda, if so she would have said the "bypass" was the way to go since the data showed a continued acceptance of that. It is TMF who has an obvious (vile) agenda and, imho, a not-too-well-reasoned way of reading data. Take a chill pill. DP didn't give any person opinions. She didn't recommend any procedure over another. if you regret what you had done, oh well. but don't lash out, aggress, rant and rage for no valid reason. Personally I appreciate the links to medical information. Maybe with the OP's username, she is a doctor (don't know, but we can ask), too and is simply providing to the community here some inside info and she gave links for us to see if we wanted to check it out. Or, simply...we could probably just ask for her to expound if necessary ("please post the additional link"), or we take whatever any of us share here and discuss it with our doctors. It's likely some of our doctors was at that "Obesity Week" conference, so I'm glad for the info!!!!!!!!!!!!! I say thank you and feel free to share more inside info for my consideration, as I try to decide on what I want to have done because knowledge is a good thing, especially when it's from the group of doctors who do this type surgery. I thank the OP--original poster I think TMF should say he's sorry for his misplaced rant. It's posts like that that make folks not wish to visit boards. I will determine what I will have done, but info is good...especially if it's "inside info", as the links obviously are. All the facts add up. She had no reason to attempt to deceive us. It seems that many here are aiming to be helpful, though some might seek to have 'fun' stirring up trouble.

This is a reply to all on this thread. It's because of the very things you all say that I have decided not to have this done. I am so tired of fighting this weight issue in my life and right now, I jus don't think I have the mental fortitude to concentrate as much as this seems to require right now. I've got serious "diet fatigue." I don't know if I'll be able to handle all the restraint...even though God KNOWS that's exactly what I need. Being fat is just not fair :-) I think I'm just going to have my stomach "flap" cut off and also the upper inner thighs. But I'm allergic to pain :-)., so I don't know what the heck to do! I'm 53 years old, now 240 pounds (usually weigh ~ 200 and look good at that weight, believe it or not.) But this is beyond anything I recognize in the mirror. Depressed. Good luck to those of you who had the courage to go through with the Lapband. Hang in there.

Wow, 23 pounds in a week, or does that include your pre-surgery liquid phase? Still, that is WONDERFUL. CONGRATULATIONS!!! I am contemplating having LBS (LapBand Surgery--too bad it abbreviates as "LBS"!), but I am not worried about the procedure itself (my would-be surgeon is the best, and teaches others how to do it). I'm worried about my psyche afterwards, because I feel much of my overeating is brain-induced. That my brain just doesn't cut off my appetite center and I'm going to be miserable craving [stuff] I can't have. Are you feeling any torment from that mentally? Again, congratulations. Hang in there.

Dr. Titus Duncan is a lead surgeon in this field; based in ATL. Teaches other docs around the world. Also, I live in Roswell. We might be neighbors :-) I'm contemplating the LapBand. Have full confidence in Duncan; I'm just worried about the psychological aftermath. I LIKE eating. I LIKE drinking LOTS Of water. But psychologically, I'm now terribly depressed due to recent 40 pound weight gain, and I already needed to lose 40. I'm now 240 pounds. female.single. Not good.

YOu post sounds like the concerns I have as I think about doing this Lapband. I'm scared--not of the surgery or not waking up. I'm scared about mental frustrations post-op re: not being able to eat. I actually LIKE eating a lot of food. But, that's what's jacked me up, so... The psychology of eating--does it change, or are you forced to just behave differently cuz you'll vomit your guts up!

How's it going so far? How long ago did you have it and are you feeling like you are dying to eat but know if you do, you'll get sick, or what? Can you feel the port? Can you feel that you have a foreign substance inside you? Thanks.