54Shirley

Thank You ! I will go to Hurly in Flint this Thursday, then set up a appointment to see a surgeon. If he says No not interested, then I will get on the phone, and start calling these surgeons. I appreciate your input, any other suggestions,,,,, please let me know. Again Thanks, Shirley. AND ! ! ! PRAYER DOES HELP ! SO THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO TALK TO THE MAN UPSTAIRS.... I APPRECIATE THAT.

It's still English !!!! Correct me if I'm wrong... I just typed away, not trying to be offensive, and SYMPATHY FOR MYSELF ! ! THAT WOULD BE THE DAY ! I'm looking for someone to take this out or repair it. Perhaps you should re-read the posts that I have put out, then tell me I'm looking for sympathy. When I joined this site in 10/06, this site was about trying to help each other, from people who had been there, and done it. In other words people who had experience in what you were inquiring about, and reassurance for the newbie, that was scared. Now it sounds like cut throats are out there, and critics. Do you have a Diploma in criticism or something. All I did was ask for a surgeon up north. Post if you know of one. Then here comes you with the rudeness of posting in CAPS, and telling me I'm looking for sympathy. You may speak phonetically correct, but do you understand ENGLISH ! ! ! If you have no relevance to this POST,, then don't bother to waist my time. Shirley 10/31/2006 Dr. Jeffrey Genaw "Chief Surgeon" Henry Ford Hospital "Center of Excellence"

Thank You!

I think it's defective... It's a 4cc band that blew with a total of 2cc in it. All I can think of is defective.

WHY??? N THANKS that helped a lot !

i WAS BANDED AT HENRY FORD MAIN IN DETROIT, CHIEF SURGEON, CENTER OF EXCELLENSE. THAT IS A JOKE, THEY DON'T DESERVE IT!!!!! I HAVE TO CALL WERE YOUR DR. IS AT AND SEE IF THEY DO REVISION SURGERY OR REPAIR THE BAND, OR UPDATE TO A NEWER BAND. PROBLEM IS,, MOST DR.'S DON'T WANT TO TOUCH SOMEONE ELSES F*** UPS. YOU KNOW THERE IS A OLD SAYING THAT WHEN THE LORD CLOSES A DOOR, SOMEWERE HE OPENS A WINDOW.. ABOUT 10 MINUTES AFTER I POSTED THIS,,,, HURLEY BARIATRIC CALLED AND SET ME UP FOR FLUORSCOPE THIS THURSDAY.. SO NOW IT WILL BE ONE DAY AT A TIME, AND SEE IF THE SURGEON WILL DO ANYTHING. 50/50 I HOPE. BUT I AM STILL OPEN TO ALL SUGGESTIONS. THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOURS. SHIRLEY.

DID YOU READ ALL THE POSTS UNDER THIS TITLE. JUST SAYING,, I HAVE A FEW HERE. ALSO WENT TO A FILL CLINIC, AND THEY DISCOVERED THE BAND WAS EMPTY BY THE SECOND FILL 1 WEEK LATER. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR NOTES ALSO. STATE IS MICHIGAN. SHIRLEY.

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT,. YOU WILL DO FINE. I ASKED HIM HOW DID I DO? HE JUST SAID YOU WERE GREAT ! SO DON'T WORRY, HE CAN GET THE JOB DONE.

i HAVE A POST UP ON THE PRE OP SITE TITLED "I WANT THIS JUNK TAKEN OUT !" READ IT AND YOU WILL SEE WHY. THIS IS A POST THAT I AM GETTING BACK ABOUT.

i AM LOOKING FOR A SURGEON TO REMOVE THIS PIECE OF JUNK ! ! I GOT ON THE PHONE TODAY WITH THE PERSON IN CHARGE "DR. HASN'T GROWN A PAIR YET !" THEY TOLD ME THE REASON FOR MY FAILURE WAS BECAUSE I KEPT EATING Cookies, AND CAKE. DENIED NICOTENE,ALCHAOL,AND CAFFEINE, AND HE DID EVERYTHING OCCORDING TO THE BOOK. SO THE BAND DID NOT BLOW IN HIS OFFICE. SO I TOLD MY SIDE "THE TRUTH !" HE NEVER EVEN BOTHERED TO CHECK ME IF I COULD SWOLLOW BY OFFERING ME A GLASS OF WATER! HE CLAIMS HE DID, BUT I WENT HOME AND TRIED TO SWALLOW Water,AND COULDN'T, SO I WENT BAK. HE CLAIMS I ATE A BOLOGNA SANDWICH, IT GOT STUCK, SO HE TOOK THE FILL OUT???????????? ARE YOU SERIOS,,, I GET A FILL, AND I AM GOING TO GO HOME AND EAT A SANDWICH... NOT TO MENTION WHO CAN EAT BREAD? I SURE CAN'T. HE COVERED HIS A** SO BAD IT WAS PATHETIC. I KEPT TO MY JOURNAL, LET'S NOT FORGET A KEY THING THOUGH... I LOST 100LBS. BEFORE I EVEN SEEN HIM, THEN ABOT 20LBS. WITH THE BAND. I DON'T SMOKE, DON'T DRINK,AND CAFFIENE KILLS MY STOMACH, SO I DON'T USE IT. AS YOU CAN SEE, I ALWAYS SAID " GEE AT THIS RATE, I'M A CHEAP DATE" I STUCK TO MY PLAN THE BEST I COULD, AND I GOT SCREWED RIGHT UP THE A** ! SO NOW i WANT THIS OUT. IF YOU KNOW OF SOMEONE IN NORTHERN, MICHIGAN THAT WOULD TAKE THIS OUT, PLEASE RESPOND. THOSE OF YOU THAT I SAID PLEASE BE CAREFUL ABOUT YOUR DECESION.... AFTER ALL THE LIES THAT THEY USE TO COVER THEMSELVES, SO THAT IF THERE IS A PROBLEM, THEY ARE COVERED TO THE MAX ! ! I WOULD SAY SERIOUSLET THINK TWICE. LIKE YOU, I WOULD NEVER THINK THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN TO ME. WELL IT DID,, AND HE COVERED HIS TRACKS, AND COULD CARE LESS. HE'S ONLY INTERESTED IN THE MONEY.

Do yourself a favor, and go on ebay, type in Muscle Milk "you should look up the lite" Find a seller that has multiple flavors, and look into them. I like Cookies n cream, strawberry milkshake, vanilla cream, chocolate Peanut Butter blend, and chocolate Carmel. You will only end up on a Protein shake anyway so get something that's good, not a diet drink. I been buying my stuff from ebay for the last 5 years. On occasion I will find someone that ordered the wrong stuff like strawberry, and pick it up on a buy. It's a good thing to know about trust me on that one. It's good stuff, and if you look around you will see that it is big business. Not a Flash in the Pan. Congrats on everything that you have done, and sounds like you really got it together. I quit smoking too, been almost 30 yrs since I quit. Time sure goes by. But that is the best info that I know of, We all have to practice the same thing too, and we do. Good Luck, Shirley.

Wow I see were thr same age,,,,, I wish you the best of Health, and enjoy your journey.

Thanks for the TIP!

I thought too that this was they way to go. I had 2 knees that had to be replaced, surgeon said loose 100lbs. and I'll do your knees. I said that's it? NO! ,,, have Bariatric Surgery so it won't come back. So I started out by keeping a journal, and loosing 100lbs in a little less then 1 year. In the meantime I was doing the Lap Band qualification steps that you have to go threw. Well my year came and people asked me in the hospital If you lost weight,,,, why are you doing this????? I said I have to in order to get my knees replaced. So I had surgery, didn't quite loose 20lbs. with the band. One day I went into his office for a fill, and the Band Blew! 2cc in a 4 cc band, and it blew. to this day I am stuck with this deflated band in me, and he doesn't want to touch it. It had to be defective.Merchandise. If you can use the skills that we are taught, and journal your calories, and foods so that you don't eat over 1200 calories in a day,,, you will lose weight! Do some walking it's good for the legs and you too. There is also calorie counter to go on, and enter your food, and record the calories, and protein No more then 60G of protein for a woman. If you stay on this pre op site look up If I new then what I know now Something like that posted yesterday. Please read it all. Also look up Don't go to this surgeon He's a QUACK! That's from me. Also please read all of that. I want you to hear the pro's and cons. What you do is up to you, but please do your research. If you want to mail me you can. I will try to answer anything I can. I wish you GOOD HEALTH ! in what ever you choose. Shirley.

Don't bury your head in the sand! There are a lot of problems with the band in long term " maybe a couple of years" So what ever you do,, Just like you gathered info on the By Pass surgery,, Do the same here. Then decide what you want.

If this doesn't get resolved... I am seriously thinking about it... It's not my type of thing to do, but,,, he screwed up not me! He also never wrote the notes down that he screwed up. In a court of law that makes it hard for me to prove. Because he is not admitting to his mistake. But I'm still looking into this trust me.

You are welcome! I hope you have better care then I got. Because I didn't get much at all. Let me know were you are going to o.k... Shirley.

I WENT TO HIM IN 06. IT TOOK ABOUT 4 MONTHS AND HE FILLED MY BAND WITH 2CC AND BLEW IT!!!! THAT WAS A 4CC BAND. I AM TRYING TO FIND A SURGEON TO HELP ME OUT, DO TO HIS SCREW UPS. I LOOKED HIM UP TODAY, AND FOUND THIS PERSON WITH A COMPLAINT, AND I DON'T BLAME THEM AT ALL. IT SOUNDS TO ME AS IT HAS ONLY GOTTEN WORSE.

Dr. Genaw was pleasant and professional. However, If I had it to do over again, I would go elsewhere for my surgery. Henry Ford Hospital is located in the middle of a ghetto (horrible) and the staff there were the most unprofessional I have ever seen in hospital setting. It was the dirtiest hospital I have ever seen in my life. The staff in the Bariatric surgery department were nice, but made several mistakes, such as failing to enter appointments into the computer which resulted in me driving over an hour to find out I did not have an appointment (even when I had an appointment card stating I did). I also felt like they were very controlling and there was always this implicit (many times explicit) threat that if I did not comply 100% with EVERYTHING they said, my surgery would be delayed. The very worst part was that Dr. Genaw's practice takes many patients from Canada, which backs things up for everyone else. I had to wait an additional 6 months after I received final approval, because they were so back logged. Jan. 26, 2011 This was taken from his review site.

I'm sorry to hear about all the problems, but I'm not surprised. Myself I think the Band should be re called, and revamp. I know you know the majority is made out of plastic. We all know that. But do you really know how easy this plastic can break. I have a 4cc band, with fills going in at 0.5cc at a time, it took a while to get to 2cc,,, only !/2 of the band full. It blew in the surgeons office. I didn't know though. Not until I got home, and tried to take a swallow of Water, and it came up, tried it again same thing. I couldn't swallow saliva. Called them up, they said you have to come back "no kidding!" He stuck in the needle, and it popped clear to the top of the syringe. I heard "WOW!!!" What's wrong I asked? He said when that happens it means your Band is Blown. I said what you gonna do about it? I'll empty you because your to swollen, and come back in a month. WHAT? how about fix this. Will see when you come back..... In about 3 weeks they called, and said he will not be able to see you for your appointment, he will be in Switzerland. Can I see his partner? Nope! He doesn't allow any one to touch his work. I'm sure you can all see were this is going No-were! I'm still looking for a surgeon to remove this. I have moved, and you can't find anyone to touch some one ellses screw ups. He is still Chief Surgeon at a "Center of Excellence" I wouldn't recommend this place for the dead!. I have regained all my weight, with a empty band I forever feel like I'm starving. I know it's head hunger, but it seems so real. I still can only eat so much, "more though then if this Band were filled" Everything gets hung up in this though, and that's a true pain I know that the only way I'm gonna get this out. is if something is stuck, and when they clean it out,,, they take it out. They told us about things getting stuck, and people even dying, but they never told us that this stuff is made on a assembly line in a factory, and if they pass defective merchandise !!! Then O well... That's the risk you take.... I would have never waisted my time at all. As you all know, this is a major decision to alter your lifestyle. If you choose to, You would expect It to work. not just take a gamble at it. You do your work, and it doesn't work. Best of Luck to you. Shirley 10/31/2006 Dr. Jeffrey Genaw "Chief Surgeon" Henry Ford Hospital "Center of Excellence."

I know there is not much there, but you can see for yourself..

I just posted a add on here yesterday Lap Band vs Realize and it does have some information in it. I to was banded in 06, and the band was a 4cc band that blew at 2cc? Had to be defective. I to am back were I started from. I am thinking about the other band. If interested check out the information.

lap band VS realize band check out the difference.

lap band VS realize band If you want to see the difference,,, check this out.

Not trying to rain on your parade..... The tubing that carries the saline from the port to the band might get hit and crack.. If you can live with that and just know you would have to go in for replacement tubing,,, that's up to you... My port is in the front near the navel. You might want to find out from your Dr. exactly were everything is going to be, on your side or in the front. I would seriously tell him that I am 100% active in what ever you do "I REALLY DON'T KNOW, CAN IMAGINE THOUGH" and simply ask him can you continue on. It will only help you with him and his location of lines, and port. Hope this helps.