I am 37 years old and have high blood pressure. I weigh about 200 lbs currently and am seriously considering having the lap band. I have seen Dr. Spivak in Houston and taken all the required test. I havent scheduled because I want to know that it will work. I have been reading some of the forums and have seena few postings where people are losing very little weight in a few months and that seems very discouraging to me. Before, I put my 14,000 into this, I guess I want to hear more success stories.

Also, any of you had your surgery done with Dr. Spivak? would like to hear about it.

Well, I love my band! I would do it again in a minute! There are several people on here that used Spivak, I'm sure you'll get lots of responses!

Hi Tracy~

Dr. Spivak was my Dr.

A couple of questions for you...

How much weight do you need to lose? If you are only 200 lbs and considering WLS I am assuming you are vertically challenged (no offense)

If you only have 60 pounds to lose it may come off a lot slower than someone that has 200 lbs to lose.

You have to stick with a certain way of eating if you want to lose the weight. Like Dr. Spivak says... 50% of it comes off with the band alone and the other 50% is up to you!

I have lost about 35lbs in 2 months... but I haven't been working out until here recently, and the past month I haven't been eating right... so I have not lost what I should.

If you have any other questions, just let us know!!!