Hey everyone...I'm only ***gulp*** 5 days away from getting banded. I was accepted into the clinical trials for the Swedish band just Monday. My surgery date is Oct. 6th. Yep- NEXT MONDAY.

I'm petristatic...a combination of petrified and ecstatic. I'm very lucky in that I've only been going through the motions of getting surgery for a month or so, and am already being banded. I guess I was in the right place at the right time. So far, fate is definitly wanted me to get the band. I'm very, very lucky. Lucky especially since the company that makes the band pays for everything for the trial. I must have been accumulating a heck of a lot of good karma to be so lucky.

I feel so much better going into all of this now that I've seen everyone's posts and their experiences. I know so much about the good, the bad, and the ugly that I truely feel like I am making a very well educated decision.

I look forward to sharing my experience (and my success and failures) with not only groups like this, but hopefully with future patients in the US.

I'm strangely calm about it all right now. Give me a few more days and I'm sure I'll be a wreck.

Megan

Good luck to you! Hopefully you will be hearing my before-surgery statement in a few weeks or months!

Nichole:)

Good luck, Megan! And congrats!

It'll be over before you know it.

Congrats and best wishes! I'm sure that it's a bit intimidating to have things moving so fast, but in a few months you'll probably look back on this as the start of a great new chapter in life.

Hey Megan! Congratulations!!! I don't know how I missed this post. You ARE a lucky devil!

I'll be very interested to hear how things go, especially with your aftercare. I know we're all pulling for these trials to be a huge success, and I hope the medical teams are well-trained in making that happen.

GOOOO, Megan!! Our very own LBT guinea pig!

Megan,

Good luck to you. I am fascinated about how things go with the clinical trial and wish you good health and success. You must contact us on Tuesday/Wednesday and let us know how everything went.

Babs in TX

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Congratulations, Megan! It's fantastic that it's all coming together for you so quickly! It'll be over before you know it and wow, you're a pioneer!

Nancy