Hello Everyone,

My wife is interested in getting the lap-band, i want to be a good husband and do some foot work for her. In southern California 1-800-get thin Weight loss centers has a major marketing campaign going, Anyone have experience with this company? i looked at the BBB website and couldn't find the company-any personal experience/knowledge? help would be appreciated.

Pete O

I have yet to hear anything good about them; in fact, here's a link to an article posted yesterday by the site creator about one of the 'providers'....

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/topic/121264-michael-hiltzik-a-death-and-1-800-get-thin-los-angeles-times-blog/page__p__1547921#entry1547921

Hello Everyone,

My wife is interested in getting the lap-band, i want to be a good husband and do some foot work for her. In southern California 1-800-get thin Weight loss centers has a major marketing campaign going, Anyone have experience with this company? i looked at the BBB website and couldn't find the company-any personal experience/knowledge? help would be appreciated.

Pete O

Hi Pete O

I have heard also mixed comments about them, but I just had my surgery on Dec 17th.... I went to them and it went very well... I had no problems the staff was great... to me the important thing is that they were bilingual so if my parents had any questions they could call and ask them and not worry about the language barrier. Also I had a great consultant.. she kept me up to date on everything that was going on with the insurance paperwork and the dr was great also very professional and explained everything in detail. What I liked about this group is that my consultant and doctor gave me there cell phone numbers so I could call them in case I had any questions.

But I guess everyone has there pro's and con's... you just got to keep in mind that this place has a few doctors and they only do this kind of work so I take it they deal with 100's of patients a day. Just on my surgery day there was 18 people in the hospital to get the lapband done.

WOW