Can i ask ya'll a question? When ya'll had your band put in, did ya'll do major surgery or was it done Laparoscopic?

No major surgery here, it was done laparoscopic

Same here but I was pretty sore for the first 5 days afterwards.Ginny

Inamed's LapBand (and I assume the other manufacturers' as well) is DESIGNED to be placed laparascopically. Hence the name. I've been reading about this procedure for two years now and have never actually heard of anyone having it intentionally placed via an open procedure.

Is this a choice you're being asked to make? Or are you just curious?

The opposite of Laporoscopic Surgery is not Major Surgery. The opposite of Lap Surgery is Open Surgery.

You can have really major surgery that (like the RnY, for example) done either laporoscopically or open. The LapBand is, as was stated, designed for laporoscopic placement.