Hello, I was just banded yesterday and I'm kind of excited about this be the first days of my new life. My bmi was 43 and I weigh 289 LBS at 70 inches. My surgeon was Dr. Mobley from Cincinnati Weight Loss center. I feel they have treated me well. The entire office is 90% banded, to include my surgeon, so when I call there's always someone who can relate. My target weight was 220 lbs, but everyone in the office said I should set my target to 200 lbs. When I paid my fee, it include all of my follow-up visit for adjustment for the nest year. If I was to need a fill several years from now the fee would only be $150.

In my small community there are only a few surgeon who do gastric bypass, so I went south to Cincinnati for mine. It's only about a hour drive. I have observed many people from work place have gastric bypass and found very few that had no complication afterwards over the first few years. The complication to the lab band are minimal compair to the trouble I've seen from gastric bypass. Ive worked as a nurse over the last 23 years and after my research made up my mind that this is the safest way to go.

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Hi,

I was banded on thurs 05/17. So far. so good knock on wood. My bandages are a bit itchy, but it could be worse. Good luck to a speedy recovery!

Hi everyone.

I was banded on the 15 May... so far so good.. except for the shoulder pain. The tummy pain is practically non existant.

3 more weeks of liquids .. am all ready looking forward to the "sloppy food" stage.

Congrats to all of you that are newly banded...I pray that each of you have a great journey in bandland....I love my band...I was banded on 4/6/07 and first fill was 5/17/07...I have lost 30 lbs.....