I just had my pre-op work done, included an ultrasound of my tummy and they now want to remove my Gallbladder before getting banded. I was told I have a small gallstone. I have never been troubled by gallbladder problems. Is it a true necessity for band success or is it a scam for more insurance and more money? please reply with any information you may feel useful!

In my PreOp meeting with the Nurse Practioner she mentioned several things that could come up during the surger (we were signing a release document). If the surgeon finds some kind of structure (tumer etc.) they take a Biopsy and send it to a lab for review. She did mentioned that they did not remove gall bladders as a matter of course. She did mentioned only once in all the surgerys they had done that they had to remove a gall bladder. She was astonished that the person had not been in complete agony because the GB was black and the tissue dead. Because of medical ethics they could not leave that and remove later it was a sever threat to her health.