Tom's Girl

I finally feel half-way normal reading all these posts. Ditto to Chele's complaint. I was banded July 2007 and I am only six (6) pounds lighter than when I went to the doctor to inquire about the LapBand. I'm filled to 3.1 cc and I don't eat red meat or white bread of any kind. I eat about 35-40% of what I used to eat, but having RA, I cannot walk very far. My weight loss will have to come from cutting down my food intake, not from exercise, so I've got it tough. My internist wrote my surgeon and ask him to remove the band and do the RNY so I will lose the weight, so I'm not too keen on ever getting this weight off with the LapBand. I think it works for the majority, however, or so it seems. My surgeon's PA told me I'm in a very small minority (11% according to him) within their program who have not lost weight with the band.

Thanks, Spartan, for your response. I am filled to 3.1 cc, so I know I'm not eating too much food. (Some have suggested that I don't eat enough, but I don't think that's true, either). I think due to genetics, the lap band probably will not give me the results I need, but I am still working at it. I have done the journaling, consulting with the nutritionist, psychologist, and made efforts to follow instructions carefully, so I'm thinking the RNY may be my next route to visit. I just wanted to put some feelers out to see if I was as "rare" as my surgeon's PA claims I am. (He says 89% of all their patients have been successful at losing a significant amount of weight on the program, so that made me feel like an "odd ball".) Good luck to all in their fight to be fit.

Does anyone know of persons who have failed completely with the lap band? I have had few complications, but I have not lost weight despite the fact that I eat about 40% of what I used to eat, and I eat low-carb and low-fat. I am 2 years and 9 months into my surgery, and my internist asked my surgeon to do a gastric bypass now. I'm not sure if I should press on with the new surgery or hang on for a while...