HI,

I'M YVONNE AND I'M BEING BANDED ON TUE 28TH NOV 06, IN GLASGOW. I'VE BEEN WAITING A YEAR FOR THIS ON THE NHS. LOOKING FORWARD TO CHATTING WITH YOU AND SHARING EXPERIENCES AND LAUGHS ALONG THE WAY.

LOVE,

YVONNE

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Welcome Yvonne

I hope it all has been going well for you...It is great to see you hear at LPB

Hi,

Just found out that I have to wait till the end of APRIL for my first fill - 5 months - my god - I'm feeling really confused - when i read on here that you have fills within weeks it makes me wonder what is going on - anyone else have this long a wait?

Yvonne

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Yvonne, I would be discouraged, too. I would think all the necessary healing would have happened by now. The whole idea of the band is to get to that sweet spot of restriction, to get the band working for you. You may want to ask the dr. about this long wait. Do you have any fill doctors in the UK, where you could do fills privately? However I'm quite sure doing that would piss your band surgeon off.

Hi,

I got my band through the NHS so have to get my fills there too, I couldn't afford them privately. I'll need to contact the surgeons secretary and find out if this is normal waiting time with him. I was told 3 months at the start and that was bad enough. Jeez I'm pissed off too.

Yvonne

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