winnmom

WOW!!! :mad2: What an interesting conversation. I am very appreciative to all for their input. I don't think my doctor was trying to scare or intimidate me. I think she was trying to make sure I had heard the bad about the band because there is so much good out there. She is right about the commercials making it sound too easy. I am not worried that my surgeon is pushing me towards one surgery or another for money reasons. I belong to Kaiser and their doctors get paid a salary no matter what procedure so I believe there are no motivations in that direction. To be honest even with all the reading and searching I had done I was not aware of so many problems with the band. I am very aware of the problems with gastric bypass but the band info was a bit more on the positive side which is partly why I was leaning towards the band. I have my physc appointment today and after that will be able to get my surgery scheduled. I have to do something. I have lost weight and rebounded my entire adult life and am definelty ready to take a major step to stop the cycle. It is a matter of choice of whether I want to rearrange my insides or have a foreign object in my body. At this point I am leaning towards the rearranging, at least those are all my parts. This has been an eye opening experience for me at the least. I will be going forward from here and all I can do is hope for the best. Thanks Dawn

Hi everyone, I recently saw my surgeon and was very excited to get my lap band surgery scheduled. However, while with the surgeon she actually recommended against the lap band!! I felt this would be the safer less extreme weight loss surgery and was very optimisitc that it would be the best for me. My doctor said the complication rate was much higher with the band than the gastric bypass. She said if it was her friend or family members she would not want them to have the lap band. She told me of the many complictions and of all the fills that would be needed and kinda freaked me out. She said it was up to me that she would do the surgery if that is what I decided to go with but now I am not so sure. Can anyone advise me on this? I am not sure what to think about this anymore. Other than trying to decide to go forward I am all ready to be scheduled for surgery. Thanks Dawn :thumbup: