I'm almost a year out...march 3rd is my anniversary of the lap band. I've lost 18lbs. About 17% of my excess body weight. My surgeon thinks it's going to be a failure. Soo he wants to convert me to a gastric bypass. I've thought about it a lot and was gonna have the bypass last year but then chickened out at the last minute and got the lap band. So i go back in 2 weeks to give my for sure answer. Could have the surgery as soon as next month.

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Dont do it!!!! Go see a new Dr sounds like something is missing here!!!

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I'd give my left nut to weigh 195!

Hell, I'd give the set to be 23 or twenty anything again.

Hell, I would give my left or right or both nuts to be 23 again, but I don't have any nuts, so I guess I'm stuck!

I have already posted once on this subject but I can't get you out of my mind. I am worried about you. Please, please don't get a gastric bypass done at your age. Get another doctor (not a friend in the Army), take your journals to him/her, go to a support group. DO everything you can to make this band work. You want to be there for your child and I'm afraid you are heading down the wrong road with this idea. You didn't put the weight on overnight and you can't take it off overnight.

Your doctor is not helping you. It isn't his body that will have to suffer all the side effects. What kind of a doctor would even suggest this surgery before exploring every possible means of success. Sounds like he is knife happy.

As someone else posted, a short time ago you were complaining about eating junk food, stress, the baby, etc. You aren't doing what you are suppose to do and that's why you are failing. It's your fault....not the band.

Please re-vamp yourself and start again. You may save your own life if you do.

Just as a curiousity...why do men always say 'the left one'? Is it somehow more valuable or less valuable than the other? :thumbup:

The left nut controls thinking and the right nut controls motor skills. We don't need to know how to think. :thumbup:

Im hoping we can work together on this ebcause i just read your story and let me tell you a little about my story --

LAP-BAND® 9/2005

02/06 - slip

03/06 - re band

throught the past 5 years I have STRUGGLED and the ONLY time i lost weight was when the bad was so tight I barely could drink Water. One day I would be able to eat yogurt, the next day it would get stuck -- it was this way constantly and Id never know what i coul or couldnt eat unless i tried - so in teh end I have a band with 1/2 fill so i can eat normally but it defeats the purpose of even having TWO surgeries because here I am weighig in 10lbs les then my 1st surgery and 10 more then my second....

Just went to the Dr. yesterday and he suggested I look into the bypass revision. He made it sound really good but he also didnt leave out the fact that because it is a revision - the risks are automatically higher for compications.

I sit here wondering if my body had this many compications with a simple band who will ti react to a bypass?

Maybe I will do great with bypass and i will finally see results Ive been striving to see forever

what is I am the 15% that thigs go drastically wrong

My job now covers this revision - if I waitr health care might change

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I too dont know what to do!

Complications? What kind of complications? Like is its "dumbing" more often.. k I can handle that..

If its leakge... that can cause death.. IDK

I wish I could survey 100 ppl who had this themself!

Help for us both

What ever we decide , we r not alone!