Hi all,

My DH, Wayne had his first fill on Fri, 9/12/03. We searched and searched. Dr. Roger Laffoon in Russellville, AR did the fill. There was no problem finding the port, (said it was the easiest one he's done) and the charge was $131.00. He got a total of 2cc. They first tried 1.5cc but it was not enough so he put in another .5 and seems to have done the trick, we'll see. No numbing,,,,,No pain.

He had lost 32lbs since his surgery 8/02/03, and then gained 7 lbs back the 2 weeks before his fill, he was just hungry all the time and cheating like a mug!! lol

We were really impressed with Dr. Laffoon, he also does the surgery and the total price is very little more than some MX surgeons, $13,000....total, hospital and all,,,,that is with with no complications. We would have gone to him if we had known.

We drove 8 hrs for the fill, but it was a nice drive and I stopped by Tunica, MS and won $20.00 Yahoo, twenty big ones!

8 hours seems a long way to go for a $350 fill. since I moved 11 hours away from my surgeon and the local doc wanted $1400 for what he called a foreign band, I decided to do it myself and it has been the best move I have ever made aside from marring my wife of 35 years and of course getting banded in the first place. It costs me about $1.50 per fill takes about 1 minute and if I over fill or under fill, its easily corrected.I had gone almost 2 years of my three years banded without a fill and was beginning to gain some of my 90 lb. loss back but now I am back on track.

Hey Big Jim, Thanks for sharing about doing your own fill. I have heard of people doing this but I am wondering if you are willing to share about exactly how you go about it. I have always maintained that it is NOT brain surgery even though the docs try to treat it that way. I would be happy to hear from you either on this forum or privately. Thanks, trubleu

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I have heard of people doing their own fills too and would love to hear more about how they do that. Amazing.