I am approved and schedeuled for banding surgery on Nov 3rd. I received a letter today from the Surgeon who wants to run me through a bone density test. Cannot figure this one out... I am a male, 38 yrs old, very much ambulatory, no history of broken bones, no spinal curvatures. Cannot figure out why he is interested in testing me for this.

Anyone have a perspective other than "Your Surgeon just wants to be thorough and rule out any potential for complications"

Did you do bloodwork? If you did blood work and your PTH was high and your Vit D was low, they may be worried about osteoporosis.

Otherwise, I've got nothing.

Had the test today and asked the question I posed in my first posting. The tech said that with deficencies in both Vit. D and Calcium that many if not most obese patients tend to have, osteopersis is a concern. Good news is that the test is a non event. You lay there and a high-tech x-ray machine "maps" your entire body. Took all of 20 mins. and I was confirmed not to have any osteopersis.

So there you have it...