DH & I will be getting banded in January. I would love to share this experience with others.:closedeyes:

DH & I will be getting banded in January. I would love to share this experience with others.:blushing:

HI

My name is Georgia and Iam new to lapband talk. Iam also

having surgery in January. Lets stay in touch.

My new insurance takes effect in January...hoping to also get approval then. Wish me luck :thumbup:

All my info is going into Blue Cross tomorrow, my surgeon expects a quick turn around (I've got great insurance) so I'm planning to schedule for January 2010. I'd love to stay in touch with you!! Cherie

I am scheduled to be banded on January 4th. ( if I don't chicken out) I have been going back and forth with this decision for about 6 months now. One day I don't want to do it and then the next day when I can't fit in my clothes, I am all ready to get it over with! I hope I'm not the only one that feels this way. I am going to be 57 a few days after the surgery and I keep asking myself do I really want to do this at my age? I am diabetic and take insulin 3-4 times daily and also have high blood pressure so I know that losing this 50 or so pounds will probably help me there but I get so scared when I think about giving up all the foods that I love and also the throwing up thing. I HATE throwing up!!! Anyway, good luck to all of you January bandsters and I hope I will be one of you. Maybe we can start some kind of special thread just for us so we can keep up with each other. I would do it, but not sure how to. Maybe one of you can start one.

We are the same age and getting banded in the same month, so how about we become cheerleaders for each other and lap band buddies? It also sounds like we have about the same amount of weight to lose. I have rheumatoid arthritis, so we both have other diseases to deal with. I don't know about you, but for me there is no such thing as a stable weight. left on my own, whatever i weight now will only go in one direction, and if i lose weight, I will regain it again. your diabetes and high blood pressure could very well GO AWAY COMPLETELY by doing this. and many people can still eat the foods they like after banding, just a lot less of it. Shall we bond?

DH & I will be getting banded in January. I would love to share this experience with others.:thumbup:

I am getting banded in Juarez Mexico at Hsopital Angeles on January 21, 2010. I am 58 and diabetic with sleep apnea so I really need to do this for a number of reasons but mostly I think I want to do it for me. I have struggled with weight for 25 years and when I quit smoking in 2005 I gained another 30 pounds substituting mint ice cream for Kools. That is when I was diagnosed with type II diabetes.

I used to be able to take off about 10% of my body weight with strict diet and excercise and then say okay I am in control but as I get older it seems to much harder and lately not working at all. I love to "gobble down" a good juicy steak with a rich Cab Sav and I am scared sh.......... less about giving that up or going to the tiny portions but I will be sixty in two years and need to be back in shape and healty so "here goes".

Would love to stay in touch as we go through.

Hi -

I am thinking that January will be my time. I am self-pay so I will not have to wait on ins or ins-diet. I go to a support meeting on Thursday to talk to some of the patients that the doctor has worked on. I have already been to his seminar. I guess from there it is a consult and the pre-op testing. So, however long it takes for those appts and then surgery. Maybe February if the process of appointments take longer. Btw....I am NOT telling most family and friends. My hubby and 11y/o know and my mother (since I will need a sitter for my 2y/o) I don't want to feel like I am under a microscope to lose weight and they are just waiting for me to fail, again:bored:.

Lets start our own January 2010 thread and help each other through this. You guys in?

yes I am in .......... looking forward to it.

Great! Our own little support group. All my paperwork is going in tomorrow. All I had to do was blood, EKG, psych and nutritionist. No swallow the barium, no sleep test, no stress test...How about you guys?

Whoo-Hoo, count me in for January. My insurance just approved me -without making me jump though hoops! I'm so very excited!!! :thumbup:

So happy for you and not having to jump through hoops! Woo-hoo! How long did it take and what is your insurance? What tests did you have to have before you submitted to your insurance?

No muss no fuss with self pay. Viva Mexico !!!

LOL But if you do it in Mexico who does your aftercare here?

I will be self-pay as well. I am going to sit in on a support meeting and then if I am happy with what I hear, I guess my next step will be to set up a consult with the doctor. I have NO CLUE how long the process will take after that. I may end up in a Feb thread. I am having a hard time finding someone on this board who used the doc I am thinking of going with.:drool: