BadKitty76

Don't know how helpful this will be, but my banding date was july 22, 2008 (only 2 months before) and it was VERY slow going for me until a few months ago. After several fills the weight finally started to fall off. Right now I have 7.25cc in there and my band holds 11cc. You should've had 6month bloodwork for any deficiencies, but your hair shouldn't be falling out...that's usually a bypass side effect. Unless there's something else going on in your body that's causing the hair loss, I wouldn't give up on the band just yet. Hang in there.

my son was 2 months away from turning 3 when I had mine done. My surgery was on a tuesday morning and I went back to work thursday afternoon. He sensed something was wrong, and just knew not to jump on mommy. It was a fairly easy surgery. Compared to a c-section it was a walk in the park!

That's happening to me right now! I had a fill almost two weeks ago, and all was fine. Suddenly after a week I can't eat ANYTHING and it's hard to get water down. I was kind of thinking maybe something was stuck, but it's been 4 1/2 days...i'm glad I stumbled upon this forum. Thanx.