Hi Everyone,

I am brand new to this site.I am currently going thru my preliminaries before being approved for surgery. I have faith that I will... I really need this surgery.I am in Houston going thru Neweigh has anybody heard anything bad about this place ?? I have a few co-workers who did the gastric by pass but no one with laps..:biggrin:

Hi big red and welcome to LBT! I haven't used that center but I wish you the best of luck with your journey to the lap band :biggrin:

Hi. Welcome to LBT. I live in Maryland so I am not familiar with the center you are using. If you are not squeamish, there is a great program on Discovery Health called Big Medicine (for some unknown reason they put Season 3 on in this area at 1am on Wednesday night--technically Thursday). Drs. Garth and Robert Davis in Houston (Methodist Hospital I believe) are a father and son bariatric team. You get to see the workups, some psych visits, the actual surgeries (RNY, Lapband, Sleeve), followup visits, and even some plastic surgery on patients with excess skin after weight loss. I had to do a 6 month supervised diet attempt for my insurance, so I spent the time educating myself and learning all about the band. I joined here in November 2007 and had been going to group support since July 2007. I was banded 3/25/08. Good luck with your journey.