Ok so how many people have had this .... my doc sprung it on me and said nothing ..... one min i had a surgery date and now i have to get a Inferior vena cava filter placed?:woot::w00t::thumbdown::woot:

Is that a filter to prevent a blood clot from being able to get to your heart,lungs or brain?

Do you have a history of DVT or PE?

I was banded on 04/30/08, but had a vena cava filter put in the day before because of my history of blood clots and Protein C deficiency. I was in the hospital for 2 days total. My surgeon will make the decision of when to take the filter out on my check-up 0n 05/30. It's not a bad procedure. He made a couple of small incisions in my neck I felt safer the next day going into surgery with that in place. I also had to do 5 days of the Lovenox injection before the two surgeries. Have you had any clots or heart problems that your doctor maybe concerned about?

i have nad no history of anything no clotting no high bp minus the weight, football injuries and asthma i am perfectly healthy.

I would ask your surgeon why he thinks it is needed.. Does everyone get one? That seems very excessive if you have not had a recent /significant history of clotting.

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i just doesn't make sense to me i mean a year of research and moths of testing and no one said anything and now i need this or no go... something doesn't seem right

Hey Watcher. Did you recently have any lab work done? Because it sounds like maybe they found you had a really short PTT (time it takes for blood to form a clot).

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i just doesn't make sense to me i mean a year of research and moths of testing and no one said anything and now i need this or no go... something doesn't seem right

When is your next appointemnt with your doctor? Definitely go back and ask why they feel you need this and how they realised you needed it. Ask lots of questions. I wish you all the best.

Let us know how it all goes.

I don't know how common this is, but I have heard of it before, as a surgical requirement, Lap-band or otherwise. I've never needed one, so I don't know much about why it's needed or how it's decided that a person should have it... but I'm sure that if you ask your doctor, he'll tell you why he feels you need to have one.