Please mark whether you are banded, ex-banded, or researching. This poll is anonymous.

Voting here will help us get an idea of percentages of complications withing the LBT community, since it's so difficult to find up-to-date info.

You should be aware that by including those individuals that have not been banded, the numbers become less meaningfull.

I am aware that the auto-percentages the poll calculates is not the percentage of removed bands vs banded. However, since the poll shows the actual numbers of each option, including the non-banded people in the poll doesn't negatively affect the results of the poll at all. It's a simple math equation using only the number of unbanded people divided by the number of banded people.

This way everyone gets to participate, and I still get the information I'm looking for, and we get a vague idea of total ACTIVE members. A very vague idea, since not everyone will be moved to vote. Then again, if someone just can't be moved to vote, perhaps they're not really that "active" on this site.

As of this post, there are 149 people voted as banded, and 7 people voted as unbanded. This gives us a percentage of 4.7 percent unbanded.

The real problem is that I didn't differentiate between WHY people were unbanded, so I'm not getting the erosion percentage, which is kind of what I was looking for. But this will do for now.

Were you looking for erosions? I just voted yes, that i am banded......

Glitter, you did right. I'm looking for responses to banded, was banded but had it removed, and not yet/never been banded.

I wish I had broken the band removed category up into subcategories, but that can always be another post...

Banded and not filled

I attended the seminar in November, met with the therapist today, and need to get referral letter from my Dr. I don't have a date scheduled to be banded, and have not been approved yet. But I'm feeling very positive and believe I'll be banded by February.

Banded and loving it...love this poll very interesting!

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I hope to be in 6 months!!! Starting the diet in a couple of weeks, after finals.

I'm with the band!

Banded

10/19

Austin, Texas

I'm banded and having no problems. I love it.

Never banded , anxiously awaiting the day I can say I am though:biggrin1: :biggrin1:

LOL at your "ate" slip Alexandra.

edie

Working on getting the money, i will get the band sometimes this year.

andree

Hi I'm banded, Infact for just one week today!!!!!!:clap2:

I'm not banded but hoping to be in the next couple of months.