Hi from Ireland!

[Emerald 0]

Hi Guys ,

Haven't been on here in ages .... too busy eating:blushing:

Just wondering if any of u have had a fill done with Weight Loss Surgery Group, and how it went ?

Thanks in advance !

[shannon12345 0]

Total disaster today. Went for a barium meal X-ray and found out my bad is open! I could see it on the X-ray straight away and I burst into tears! Chat believe it! The doc said the minimizers do that a lot and it will have to be replaced. I am just devastated beyond belief. I'm don't know if I cam

Go thru the op again, what a let down. Oh well, but I tell ye if I ever ran into that halina one again she would be sorry!!! :blushing:

[wannabe slinky 4]

OMG it's great to find some fellow Irish on here!! Im delighted now lol well im not banded yet, but I really think I am going to go ahead with it. I am 30 yrs old, 5 6" and 210lbs, I have about 70+ to lose. Iv lost them loads of times before but i cant keep them off :blushing: I have already been for a consultation with Haven Cosmetics, but backed out at the last minute.. I was in the bank, with the cash in my hand, with the lodgment slip filled in and everything and I just took a panic attack in the bank :smile2: I'd swear it was my Aunty Ann looking down on me.. anyways, they went tits up there a few weeks ago, he was a pure gangster :wub: so now im researching where to go to have it done. I have heard wonderful things about Dr De Bruyne in Belgium, who quoted 4100 for the op, accommodation for myself and my partner for three nights in Belgium and all taxi fares etc. The gas thing Is Cosmedico who are agents for Dr De Bruyne quoted me 6900 and 150 for each fill afterwards :eek:

Oh they do love to rip us Irish off dont they :lol:So by booking it direct im saving a fortune. They charge 220 for each fill if they DONT do your operation so im still saving.. However, now Iv found another clinic called Auralia here in Dublin who are doing it 4900 including a years aftercare and theres no need to go abroad :eek: Have any of you heard of them or what they are like? I would love to hear from Irish Bandsters and what your experiences have been like..

hi all i went with dr chris de bruyne and im so pleased i did excellent service,he is the second buisiest surgeon in europe so very experienced that is y i chose him hun havnt heard much of the company you are talking about i wouldnt trust them it could be acs under a new name for all you know,take care chosing,im so glad i had it done though:thumbup:

[wannabe slinky 4]

hunnybee the sickness depends on the person or it could be an overfill you have to work with the band and judge for yourself hun,some people dont chew enough or eat to quick and that is y they are sick it it trial and error hun:wink2:

[Emerald 0]

Total disaster today. Went for a barium meal X-ray and found out my bad is open! I could see it on the X-ray straight away and I burst into tears! Chat believe it! The doc said the minimizers do that a lot and it will have to be replaced. I am just devastated beyond belief. I'm don't know if I cam

Go thru the op again, what a let down. Oh well, but I tell ye if I ever ran into that halina one again she would be sorry!!! :w00t:

Sorry 2 hear that Shannon .....its a bummer :laugh:

I could'nt get a fill this week because my port has flipped , and apparently i need corrective surgery to get it back in position. Talk about a money making racket ......but she says that if i need an emergency de-fill , they wont be able to do it .....so that makes the decision easier :biggrin:

Hope u get sorted out soon Shannon

[cakey123 0]

hi lunesa, would you mind telling me what the price was with the irish clinic. also id love to know who you eventually went with. i hope everything is still going great for you and would love to know how much youve now lost. also do you know of surgeons who wont perform the surgery if you have had ulcer problems in the past. i dont want much do i!. im irish too, so thats at least 3 of us anyway.

many thanks for listening i appreciate it

[down in the dumps 5]

hi lads, just new here. Been very down lately with my weight, and after years of yoyo dieting i'm seriously considering a lap band. I'm based in Dublin and would prefer to stay over here to have surgery, mostly because i don't think i could get anyone to go with me abroad. So can you please tell me the places that do it in Ireland and prices? Their doesn;t seem to be many??? Also the one in Belgium, looks very promising, any feed back incase i can get a friend to go. PRices, hotels etc.

Any comments would be great, just can't do this for much longer, had a serious melt down the other day and am feeling very low about my self.

Thanks

[Fattyboomboom 0]

Hi down in the dumps, oh dear I know how you feel Its crap being fat isn't it. You know life is short and ive decided to go for it now. The last 10 years of being on a diet has left me about 4 stone heavier! How does that happen? I've a provisional date booked for 12july so I just have to pay my deposit and bobs your uncle. Brussels here I come. Chris de bruyne has a great reputation and it's cheaper than going to England. £3950 as opposed to £7,000 in England. Let me know what you decide to do.

[wannabe slinky 4]

hi lads, just new here. Been very down lately with my weight, and after years of yoyo dieting i'm seriously considering a lap band. I'm based in Dublin and would prefer to stay over here to have surgery, mostly because i don't think i could get anyone to go with me abroad. So can you please tell me the places that do it in Ireland and prices? Their doesn;t seem to be many??? Also the one in Belgium, looks very promising, any feed back incase i can get a friend to go. PRices, hotels etc.

Any comments would be great, just can't do this for much longer, had a serious melt down the other day and am feeling very low about my self.

Thanks

i agree with fatty boomboom dr chris de bruyne in belgium is hard to beat i paid 4150 euro direct with the surgeon himself and that includes hotel for 2 peeps for 3 days ,surgery and taxi to and from airport and hotel you just have to get your flights,i had mine done and no regrets

[down in the dumps 5]

thanks lads,

actually booked The hospital Group. I met david Hewin, he was very nice and imformative. I've got my date for 25th June. I can't wait!!!!

The sooner it comes the better.

I'm happy enough to be staying at home, my husband wasnt comfortable with my going abroad and i'm ok with that. I'd probably be the same if it was him.

I'l keep in touch and let you know how i get on, i have my pre op bloods on the 6th so roll on!!!!

[Coco 0]

Hi 'down in the dumps'

Glad to hear you've chosen the band as the way forward for you, I know its been the best present I've ever given myself. I have been banded 4 yrs and I've had my ups and downs, overall I'm happy even though I was banded with ACS! Anyway, the reason I've decided to answer your post is because you are choosing the Hospital Group who are ACS under another name. They are not to be trusted and in spite of having a nice consultation, with respect, its post operative care you should be concerned about. You may well be ok, I was lucky, you could be too. As a concerned banded woman, I would encourage you to go and have a free consultation with the Belgium Doctors. I have only heard good things about these people, they took me on for aftercare when I had nobody to go to. Yes it is abroad, that is what put me off, I paid 10,000 Euro when I could have had a better experience, a better band and aftercare service from the Belgium Dr's for 3,500 Euro back then. I wish I'd have gone to them in the first place, but everyone said to me "oh stay at home its safer" well they were all wrong. Please for your own sake, take your husband along also, you will get to speak to other banded people in the office, and you will have everything explained to you. Please you have enough time to check them out at least. They come to Dubliin every month where you can meet with them, and talk to their current patients. Good luck with everything.

thanks lads,

actually booked The hospital Group. I met david Hewin, he was very nice and imformative. I've got my date for 25th June. I can't wait!!!!

The sooner it comes the better.

I'm happy enough to be staying at home, my husband wasnt comfortable with my going abroad and i'm ok with that. I'd probably be the same if it was him.

I'l keep in touch and let you know how i get on, i have my pre op bloods on the 6th so roll on!!!!

[Coco 0]

Hi 'down in the dumps'

Glad to hear you've chosen the band as the way forward for you, I know its been the best present I've ever given myself. I have been banded 4 yrs and I've had my ups and downs, overall I'm happy even though I was banded with ACS! Anyway, the reason I've decided to answer your post is because you are choosing the Hospital Group who are ACS under another name. They are not to be trusted and in spite of having a nice consultation, with respect, its post operative care you should be concerned about. You may well be ok, I was lucky, you could be too. As a concerned banded woman, I would encourage you to go and have a free consultation with the Belgium Doctors. I have only heard good things about these people, they took me on for aftercare when I had nobody to go to. Yes it is abroad, that is what put me off, I paid 10,000 Euro when I could have had a better experience, a better band and aftercare service from the Belgium Dr's for 3,500 Euro back then. I wish I'd have gone to them in the first place, but everyone said to me "oh stay at home its safer" well they were all wrong. Please for your own sake, take your husband along also, you will get to speak to other banded people in the office, and you will have everything explained to you. Please you have enough time to check them out at least. They come to Dubliin every month where you can meet with them, and talk to their current patients. Good luck with everything.

thanks lads,

actually booked The hospital Group. I met david Hewin, he was very nice and imformative. I've got my date for 25th June. I can't wait!!!!

The sooner it comes the better.

I'm happy enough to be staying at home, my husband wasnt comfortable with my going abroad and i'm ok with that. I'd probably be the same if it was him.

I'l keep in touch and let you know how i get on, i have my pre op bloods on the 6th so roll on!!!!

[boop 0]

Hi 'down in the dumps'

Glad to hear you've chosen the band as the way forward for you, I know its been the best present I've ever given myself. I have been banded 4 yrs and I've had my ups and downs, overall I'm happy even though I was banded with ACS! Anyway, the reason I've decided to answer your post is because you are choosing the Hospital Group who are ACS under another name. They are not to be trusted and in spite of having a nice consultation, with respect, its post operative care you should be concerned about. You may well be ok, I was lucky, you could be too. As a concerned banded woman, I would encourage you to go and have a free consultation with the Belgium Doctors. I have only heard good things about these people, they took me on for aftercare when I had nobody to go to. Yes it is abroad, that is what put me off, I paid 10,000 Euro when I could have had a better experience, a better band and aftercare service from the Belgium Dr's for 3,500 Euro back then. I wish I'd have gone to them in the first place, but everyone said to me "oh stay at home its safer" well they were all wrong. Please for your own sake, take your husband along also, you will get to speak to other banded people in the office, and you will have everything explained to you. Please you have enough time to check them out at least. They come to Dubliin every month where you can meet with them, and talk to their current patients. Good luck with everything.

[boop 0]

Hey everyone ,haven't been on here in years but just got a message about a topic ,i totally agree with Coco !! Down in the Dumps i've been where you are and if there is one piece of advice i can give you is ,please consider Belgium !! i'll try and cut a long story short ,i went with ACS which are The hospital Group in disguise ..they went bust as we all know and i was left there for yrs without a fill !i just had the fill from when i went for the surgery that was it and then it was bye bye from them ,and if i thought The hospital Group were gonna help ,well i was in for a big surprise ,never got help or fill from them ,eventually found that the surgeons from Belgium were doing fills in Dublin and was i the happy girl ,even tough my port was all twisted and i had the Aldi version of a band that ACS had put in me,they could not have been nicer and such gentlemen ,and i went on to lose 3 stone after hardly any weight loss because of being let there ,and i tell ya i was lucky to have them last year when i started to feel very sick and couldn't hardly keep drops of Water down not even a spoon full of water so i rang The Hospital Group for help as i was so scared and i needed someone quick to help me i was crying on the phone and very scared ,well that was last Oct and to this day i have heard NOTHING from them,oh i'll get back to you they said ,oh that's terrible they said ,oh we are very worried about you ,so worried they NEVER even rang me back ! ,i rang Belgium and i cried with relief because they were so good to me ,they got me in for emergency surgery a couple of days later ,as it happens my passport was out of date and they sent me letters from Dr Frederick himself so i could get an emergency passport ,my point about this is ,i was exactly the same as you saying oh stay close to home and all that in case something goes wrong ,well it took the surgeons in Belgium to help me ,nobody here did so if that doesn't speak volumes i don't know what does ,I WISH somebody had told me what i'm telling you ,i had e-mail after e-mail from Dr Frederik In Belgium telling me he was gonna fit me in and have a car and hotel ready for me and he NEVER let me down ,in fact i think i have a crush on him to this day ,even my husband admitted to having a man crush on him !!!! hahahaha ,he was that good ! when i got there i was soooo happy i forgot how sick i was and couldn't wait to have the band removed ,i didn't want it back in after what ACS put me through but if i had it done in Belgium i'd still have it in as my experience would have been totally different without a doubt ,and the surgeon was so good he told me that the damage inside me was so bad from what the cheap band had done to me that he wouldn't recommend me having a band for a few yrs to let my body heal,it was a totally different experience for me over there ,yes it is far away but as you can see by my story ,getting it down closer to you doesn't mean better ..pleaseeeeeee take your time and think as i was soooo miserable being fat that i jumped at the first place i seen and i was the same as you i thought oh i can't wait ,i wish i had waited and went to Belgium .If you do go with The Hospital Group i wish you the best of luck and it could be great but i could not sit at home looking at your message and say nothing to you ,this was not to scare you but to have every bit of info you can about people who are gonna be very important to you over the next few yrs ,best of luck ,if you need any more info don't hesitate to contact me XX

[down in the dumps 5]

lads thanks for the replies. I have booked in with the hospital group and paid deposit so im not going back on it. No way i can go to Belgium, its just not up for negociation with husband. I have been talking to a few girls that got done through them in the past year and all are happy with their results and care.

Il have to just take it as it is, maybe il be back on here say they are the best ever! May be i won;t ! But i think that can go for anything. Realising things can go wrong, i am not going into this blindly, but i cant go on like this for much longer and if my only hope of getting it done is in Ireland, then so be it.

Thanks for all the comments

Shelly

P.s: I have gone for other consultations as well, they by far treated me better and answered all my questions