I had my consultation today, it was me and another lady who is also intrested in having surgery , So the doctor is giving us the option of lapband or gastric, he gave the pros and cons on both, He Highly suggested the gastric better bcz it has a higher success rate. I guess the gastric takes a year to go down to the weight you are supposed to and Lapband takes about 2 years.

Now I dont know what to do, how did you guys decide the lapband is for you and not gastric. They said I could pick anything and if i changed my mind I can do the other route but we would have to start from step one (approval from insurance)

Can I have some guide, I am completly lost now . What a hard choice!

Docs prefer to push the gastric bypass cause once your cleared after surgery and they release you. Thats it. They get their 15-25 grand and move on to the next paitent. Bypass costs more then the band. and has the least amount of aftercare. With the band your going to go back to your surgeon for fills/unfills probably for life unless you move/change doctors.

Plus chances are after 5-10 years youll stop losing (if you don't change your habits drasticly) and regain weight once again meaning you will most likely try a revision surgery which means MORE money in his/her pocket.

I have several family (5) members who have bypasses. I REFUSE to do the same to myself. NONE of them have gotten to goal weight, MOST have started regaining. And 2 have serious stomach & malnutrition problems.

None were told they needed to relearn their eating habits, All keep eating junk/fast food/high sugar & carb foods. (not saying it isnt possible to be succesfull, but its not a magic pill)

The one person who has done the best with a bypass (lost but some but never hit goal) now wants to get a band but is 9 months pregnant now and had to put that off for now. But shes curious about it now that I told her I wanted to do it. And we discussed it at length.

Good for you with sticking to your decision