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Hi, I was banded by Dr. Woody on July 26,07. Everything was great! Going to the meeting tonite at Highland Park Hosp at 7PM?

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Just out of curiosity, is your insurance bc/bs IL an HMO? That's what I have and I have ENH as my providor hospital. I've been researching him and he seems like the guy I want to do this.

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I was banded at Alexian Bros by the Suburban Surgical Team. I had Dr Guske. He is a great guy, good sense of humor and very supportive. All of those things are of importance to me. I wanted a Dr I could talk to. He also operates out of St Alexius in Hoffman Estates Il. Godd luck everyone! If you can get through the pre-testing, you can do ANYTHING!!!

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I had the surgery at Evanston Hosp and Dr Woody Denham was my surgeon. I had BC/BS PPO and they paid for everything so far. He was great and I credit his staff with fighting the insurance company for me.

I'm 2 months post op and all is well so far.

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Has anyone here dealt with Dr. Constantine Frantzides in the Skokie/Evanston area? The Dr. who referred me called him "gifted with a laparoscope".

He mainly does laparoscopic gastric bypasses, but he also does the Lap-Band. His many many patients overwhelmingly sing his praises on obesityhelp.com, but again, they're mainly bypass patients.

Does anyone have any experience with him or heard anything about him?

Thanks!

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My surgeon was Dr. Shayani on March 15, 2007 at Loyola Hospital.. Although he currently works out of DayOne Health...

Anyone else have the same surgeon??? I would highly recommed him he is awesome... He actually cares about his patients and keeps in contact... Wonderful Doctor (you could tell he became a surgeon because he cares about the people he treats)

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Hi Jeni - I did not have him for my surgery but he did my unfill a few months ago when i was waaaay to tight.

he gave me his card and told me to emal him & let him know how i was doing. i was very surprised he was so nice.

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Ya he is really caring..... After my surgery i was very sick... so he told me to email him to let him know how i was doing and one day i forgot to email him and he was calling me to make sure i was ok and why didn't i email him... :faint: what a sweetheart!!

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Hi Mandy! Dr Joyce did my band on 9-11. From reading the posts, you are seeing Dr. Lahman. When you had your fill did you have to have a barium swallow? Was your port site sore?

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My insuance will only pay for fills with flouro (barium) so that is the only way I have them done. I am usually not sore after being adjusted, it's just a simple stick. ~Mandy

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Thanks so much for this information I'm going to attend the seminar next week. I only hope my Cigna HMO will approve it. My BMI is 50 and I've now developed type 2 diabetes from the excess weight - it started out as Insulin Resistence from PCOS. This led to endometrial cancer which is just now in remission, but the cancer medication Megace helped to increase the weight by 60lbs. and now I'm really in a bad state weight wise.

I'm really at my ropes end now and I need this surgery to get my life back on track.

Thanks again for sharing your stories, you all are a God-send!

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Where Is Day One Health? I Have Not Yet Had Lap Band But This Is So Helpful. I Was Advised To See A Dr. Alverdy At Uic Or Dr. Alverdy At Northwestern But I Do Not Drive Downtown. Thanks For All Your Info And I Am Scared.....

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. LeighaTR

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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