Hi everybody!

Has anybody of all you bandsters out there received an LapBand Passport after surgery?

Or any kind of paperwork for an implanted devise?

Just wondering.

I got a little card to carry in my wallet with a picture of the device. It's good if you get into an accident so ER docs don't go around endoscoping you without knowing about the band.

Supposedly it gets you discounted meals at restaurants, but I'm not too crazy about announcing my surgery to everybody on the planet just to save a few bucks.

Yes, I received one. I thought I might have needed it when I went out of the country and had to go through security in the airport (metal detector)... but no probs at all.

I don't have one...but as for annoucing to the whole world. I tell EVERYONE. LOL I keep saying I"m going to stop, but I don't. I feel like a walking lapband advertisment sometimes. Everyone knows but my mother in law that is LOL.

Oh, the airport. Let me tell you about the airport. I've never set off the walk-through detector, but during my personal TSA molestation, the wand beeped over my port site. And don't even think about saying LapBand, because your personal feel-up artist is not interested in learning about your new-fangled surgical procedure. Just say yes when they ask if you have an implanted device.

Exactly - Strawarts - it's the dang super-sensitive hand wand that does it. I can walk thru the X-ray metal detector all day but if they hand wand me.... The band beeps immediately.

( *sigh*) As if going thru airport security isn't already a fun procedure nowadays...

Happy Band Journeys to all...

Ok, that's odd...while my husband and I were in Vegas this past October, my purse was stolen (with my ID inside), which required me to go through that "extra" security at the airport on our trip home. The wand didn't go off at all and I know for a fact that I have a port. I wonder why it goes off for some and not others. Not that I'm itching to tell the TSA agent that I have an implanted device, mind you. :eek:

Sometimes it will go off on me, sometimes it won't.... I think my port is as finicky as the band is!

What kind of metal is in the port?? Does anyone know? I am severely allergic to nickel. And I would be very embarrassed to have to announce that I had an "implanted device" in such a busy public place as the airport.

My doctor's office was very surprised that I beeped with the wand. And it's not that embarassing to tell the TSA about it - I only had to bring it up when I was selected for extra screening. Embarassing is when they stick the wand practically all the way in your special place.

So the band would always ring in the airport detector? I just got my band a week ago....

Does it always ring? or only sometimes????

It seems that for those of us who have responded, the band ONLY goes off when you are selected for the additional personal screening with the wand. It has NOT gone off for me with the walk-through detector. Try not to look suspicious and you'll be fine :confused:

The back of the port is Titanium, so the needle for fills does not pierce all the way through the port. That is the only metal in the band. it is a small amount, and only the wand would likely detect it.

I went to the Inamed site and printed my own card, saved $5.00 at Golden Corral. "Stomach Stapling" was listed on the receipt.

It seems that for those of us who have responded, the band ONLY goes off when you are selected for the additional personal screening with the wand. It has NOT gone off for me with the walk-through detector. Try not to look suspicious and you'll be fine :confused:

:confused: Correction - - the band did not set off the wand while I went through extra security at Las Vegas McCarren International Airport.

Seriously one can get a food discount? That is hilarious!