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    I liked Dr. Weiss a lot. He's a great dr. and will take great care of you.
  2. ** On my before and after I guess you will think it weird, but my before was in 2012 when I was doing well with my band up until Nov. 2012 and the after is what I look like now since the band stopped working and I could not get my dr. to understand, something needs to be done, it is no longer working.....but he just didn't listen, wouldn't do any tests he just kept wanting to give me a fill, so I am moving on, hopefully before long I will be able to switch the pictures around again <3
  3. Hello my friends, well I cancelled the surgery with Dr Allen I just did not feel good about it, so now I am waiting on approval from Dr. Weiss in Lexington to remove the band and then depending on how well I do with that will depend on the sleeve surgery, I wish he would surprise me and go ahead and do both while he is in there, but he knows best.... I hope it soon gets approved, I think it has been about 3-4 weeks....plus I have had some other things happen, my brother in law had a tractor turn over on him on June 3rd, the day of my last post, he is still in and out of ICU, he does good for a couple days then has another setback, Please keep him in your Prayers <3
  4. **Well I am scheduled to have my band out on Monday the 9th and I am so scared, I hate being knocked out, lol....My dr is not happy with me at all because I want the band out so he wont do the revision, but that's ok with that kind of attitude I don't want him to do it !!! If anyone has any suggestions on doctors around Louisville, Lexington or Bowling green I am open to suggestions...ALSO anyone that has had the band out, how bad is that surgery ???? Thank you & God Bless !
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    Hello thank you for the welcom!
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    Hi there thanks for the welcome :-)
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    I went from band to sleeve almost 4 weeks post op 17 lbs so far and I can already tell this is gonna be much better the band I was at the point that my Dr could not feel because of the acid reflux and vomiting ins paid 100% you can research and help your dr with getting it approved its all in the fine print good luck
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    Hey - sorry, just haven't been on here very much. I did not have the LapBand - the sleeve has been my only wls. Dr. Tanner has been fantastic and I have lost 20 lbs in the 3 weeks since surgery so basically a pound a day!
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    Just read your about me... Your band is not working that's not how it is supposed to work. I say that from a point of knowledge because my husband has a lapband and he occasionally has what we call a hair ball.. But he isn't constantly puking and he can eat food properly just slowly ...I have learnt that all surgeons have specialities so your present surgeon may not do the gastric sleeve so then you do need to find another surgeon. From what you say about yourself I would be going to find someone to help me right now. And tell them how it's been for you. It can't be healthy for you the way your are.
    Good luck with it all
    Hev
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    Hi -
    No, my docs office is really good about getting stuff through insurance. Because I had a history of dr visits to fill/unfill/fill, etc. the band throughout the years, I think that helped. I also have diabetes, so having a comorbid condition didn't hurt.

    They said it could take a month to approve, but it only took a few days!

    Last year, I went to the dr. to ask about having the band taken out. I was just tired of it being in my body not working. Then a friend had the sleeve and has had such great success that I decided it was time.

    Thanks so much -
    Lauren
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I have been obese all of my life so in 2004 I decided to have the Lap Band, it was great for me for awhile but it seemed the only way I could ever lose any weight was if I threw up what I ate which seemed to be no problem, every time I got a fill it would happen so it was always a 2 hr drive, fill unfill, but if I wanted to lose weight I would have to deal with the puking for 5 yrs I have had nothing to eat but soups, so when I went back in Nov 2012 I told them I needed some of the fluid out, not sure how much they took out but from Nov 2012 until just a few weeks ago I gained 40 lbs, between now and then I kept going back and forth and they just couldn't get it right, Finally on Oct 11, 2013 they put more in and here I am starting Oct 17 ii have started puking again and can hardly even keep fluids down, the last 2 mornings when I was throwing up there were traces of blood, not only am I worried but I am really getting fed up with the band...I had ask my doctor about the revision to the sleeve and he just brushed me off and said why would you want to have another surgery ??? I told him because the band just isn't working for me anymore, but nothing else was ever mentioned, I go back on Nov 6th and I am going to ask him one more time about the revision and if he doesn't answer me or doesn't want to do it, I think I am going to find another doctor that will, I can not keep doing this, I mean to me I might as well eat and puke without the band if that's all I am doing anyway !! Please say a prayer and wish me luck :(
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by suthern_dreamz on 06-03-2014 at 10:02 PM
**Well I am scheduled to have my band out on Monday the 9th and I am so scared, I hate being knocked out, lol....My dr is not happy with me at all because I want the band out so he wont do the revision, but that's ok with that kind of attitude I don't want him to do it !!! If anyone has any suggestions on doctors around Louisville, Lexington or Bowling green I am open to suggestions...ALSO anyone that has had the band out, how bad is that surgery ???? Thank you & God Bless !
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Getting very disuisted and very very DEPRESSED

by suthern_dreamz on 03-31-2014 at 03:26 PM
I went to my Lap Band on March for another follow up and GAINED another 5 pounds which now puts me only 60 pounds away from where I was when I was banded, I am not understanding his thinking, all he wants to do is continually give me more injections of saline, ITS NOT WORKING, I mentioned to him again the gastric sleeve and he says it will not help me....I need to get something done SOON I will not live like this, I am not happy, I am so depressed, I am in constant pain and I am now on HBP meds,

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