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Hi I have been bouncing around on here to figure some of this stuff out! As for now I have not quite gotten what a "fill" is! I must be missing it! I have been looking and reading some much on here!

I had the RYN bypass 6 yrs ago and I only wish that this kind of things would have been available! you all are sooo connected! It is truely inspiring to me to read and learn! It seems like a larger familly has formed and I think that is awesome!

Can some one help me to have a total understanding of this procedure? I understand the banding but thelinks I have been on do not seem to go into great detail !

Thanks

Vicki :clap2:

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Basically, the band is a ring that is placed around your stomach. It can be inflated by adding saline (a fill) or deflated by removing saline.

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GayleTX and Laurend

Thank you both for your help! I feel so badly that I let the weight come back! I did not realize it until we lost our home to a house fire this past April, we were rescued off the burning roof and I remember a sudden fear that my weight may collapse the roof with my three children, hubby and myslef! Weirdest thing to thing it would hit you at a time like that..that you h ave packed the weight back on!

I have been weighing the desion of having a "tune up" with my RYN or to find a doctor that would do the banding on me! Really still undecided, the main thing is how invasive the RYN was, I still have a scare that is at least 8 inches long and has some spots that are as wide as 3/4 an inch! I do not worry about the vanity thing, three kids strech marks to my ears, all c sections, I could really care less about another scare! It is the healing plus I scare too much in the inside when cute completely open! I really like that you all respond to each other and to new comers as myself, I have found no other site that is as dedicated to helping each other! Anyone that has any little info you would like to give me I would be sooo grateful! Honestly I am not even sure that my insurance will even approve it with out a long drawn out tado as it was with my RYN. But please I want to gain as much knowledge as I can with this. That was a down fall before. I never went through any classes explaining it, all I knew was I would be on liquids for about 6 weeks then learn to eat again and loose weight!

thanks again for your help and I have started looking at the web site you recommeded GayleTX

Vicki

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