Hi

Although I have been lurking for a couple of months, it is time to introduce myself. My husband is getting banded this Tuesday and me the following Monday. Since we are self pay we are trying to squeeze them both in before the end of the year for the tax deduction. Fortunately, we are close to Dr Kirshenbaum and his extremely reasonable rates. If anyone can offer any insights to couples banding, it would be appreciated.

thanks!

No insights, but a wish for good luck! I hope you'll both love your bands!

It's great when you are on the same page as your spouse. We go out to eat and split an appetizer order, or else order something that makes good leftovers, knowing we are going to be eating the food for at least one more meal! My husband and I were banded the same day in October 2007, and we have each lost about 80 lb. I think it would have been much harder if we hadn't done this together. Good luck to both of you!

We're in Australia and were banded almost 3 years apart so no help to you.

But it helps our lifestyle to both be banded. However, I'm a lot more committed and dedicated to my fitness than my husband is, despite having lived with me and seen how hard I worked to lose my weight, he still thinks the band should just do it all. Consequently he's lost about 30lb since June.

But by the same token, he has nowhere near the same desire for physical perfection that I have. He's happy to be be healthier, come off his blood pressure medication and not have the threat of morbid obesity in his future. I'm a LOT vainer and want to look like a supermodel, lol. So even given that we have vastly different goals, I believe we're setting a heatlhy and moderate lifestyle example for our three kids.

my husband and i were banded the same day last oct.

while pretty competitive, is was really a blessing we did it together, though we did not have similar experiences. he needed 3 fills for restriction - got to goal in 6 months and "maybe" goes to the gym once a wk. me, i needed 8 fills and still don't call out goal because i have personal fitness goals i want to meet, i'm also in the gym 5-6 days a wk.

he can't eat anything in the morning - but snacks all night. me, i'm pretty much on schedule with what i eat & when....

even though our bands operate differently - the net result is the same.....good luck to you both!

I'm so happy to hear all these success stories. My wife and I are leaving for TJ tomorrow to be banded on Thursday. We are both looking forward to going out and sharing this experience together. Both for the health and the cheaper dinners:smile:. I am just hoping I can handle the 21 day post op diet :thumbup:

Update !! We got to thye Dr Ortiz clinic before noon yesterday and had our cardio and pulmonary tests done and they said how woulld you like to get it done today ? Well I was a little nervous as was my wife but we firgred hey wev'e come this far why not go ahead and get it done a day early. So much for the last supper. Put on our funky liitle gowns and took the magic tequlla pill. (Makes you drowsy) and wiithin half an hour it was a done deal BANDED:thumbup:. My wife woke right up without any vomiting like she usually does. And I woke up a little slower. You know kinda drifed in and out for a couple hours. We both feel fine now. No real pain to speak of, Little gas pain but plan to go out and do some walking soon.

The entire staff and clinic itself was Exceptional. Nice people and everything was spotless and selled sterile.

I would recommend the Obesity Control Clinic to anyone thinking of having this done. We both got our surgeries and air fare from Seattle for less than I could have had it done for justs one of us in Olympia

So far so good.

Chris