Failed LapBand Patient Talks about Her LapBand

[luvembigger]

overfill... scary stuff... well let's trade one surgery for another!

[MrForce54]

Surgical revision of loop (“mini”) gastric bypass procedure: multicenter review of complications and conversions to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, June 26, 2006, San Francisco, California.

[DrRRutledge]

Stunning New Research: "Placement of a gastric band appears to be a disservice"

"The placement of a gastric band appears to be a disservice to many morbidly obese patients and therefore, in the current culture of evidence based medicine, the prevalent use of laparoscopic gastric banding can no longer be justified. " Dr. Guller from Toronto, Canada. Furthermore, they state: "There is mounting and convincing evidence that gastric banding is suboptimal at best. "

[DavesAllNightCafe]

You had the surgery in Mexico ? Then AFTER surgery you started looking for a MD that would do your fills ? All I can say is you got EXACTLY what you asked for.

[caribourain]

MEXICO!!! girl. I rather do the surgery on myself then go to Mexico.

[Annigetyourgun81]

She went to Mexico, what do you expect? You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Gastric Bypass has a higher mortality rate, and, if done incorrectly by the surgeon (more common than you think) you're stuck with it. Can't reverse it.

Dr Rutledge, go experiment on yourself and quit manipulating patients who are clearly distraught.

[QUEENLEENO1]

Thank you for sharing your story. That must have been so painful for you to do that. God bless.

[hermagan]

sigh...

[YumeNasaki]

People go to mexico to have surgery and then are confused when the bands fail. I'm sorry, but I went to an actual bariatric group, to a hospital rated in the top 100. They have tons of success stories, I have yet to hear of any stories like this. I have seen people on band forums, and oddly enough, any complaints about the band come from people who went to mexico to have surgery. I'm sorry, but running off to mexico to have surgery, does not sound wise.

[morfeus181]

I used 2 have the lap band for 2 years (i dont longer have it) I used to weight 230 lbs ... now i weight 128 lbs... so u just need 2 remember... that u got the surgery in ur stomach not in ur brains .. so change the way u eat.. and u will c... that ur goint 2 accomplish ur goal... the lap band works.. u only need to work on ur diet !!

[morfeus181]

I used 2 have the lap band for 2 years (i dont longer have it) I used to weight 230 lbs ... now i weight 128 lbs... so u just need 2 remember... that u got the surgery in ur stomach not in ur brains .. so change the way u eat.. and u will c... that ur goint 2 accomplish ur goal... the lap band works.. u only need to work on ur diet !!

[BessieHernandez]

Well there's your first problem- DON'T GO TO MEXICO FOR ANY SURGERY! I have had the lap-band for 6 months and guess what? Down 38 pounds! But I follow the diet religiously and I exercise 4-5 times per week.

What's up with this doctor being so anti-lap band? Did a lap-band surgeon steal his girlfriend or something?

:-)

[cotysmom]

I had the band placed in December 26 2008. I had to have port revision surgery by February 16 2009!! I want this thing out of my body, but no one will take it out until I have had it for at least three years!! So, I have no choice but to try my best to make it work. I have only lost 20lbs in 11 weeks and none of my comorbidities have resolved. Just got put back on Metformin yesterday for my PCOS! I am angry, frustrated and feeling like a complete failure. Should have gotten VSG or RNY. Grrr.

[DrRRutledge]

To DrR: "Hi...I have had the Lapband for 3 years and I have lost 32 pounds ..."

** Read it and Weep;

Go to the internet;

Google "Lap Band Failure" and

Read over a Quarter of a Million stories of People with LapBand Failures!

Wait another Year and the Number will rise by the Hundreds of thousands

[DrRRutledge]

Failed lap band - Lost & desparate

4 posts - Last post: Nov 22, 2008

Hello everyone, I am desparate. I have been surfing the web for days. I just found this site and thought maybe I could better answers from ...

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[DrRRutledge]

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[rackingbeauty]

I had my lap band surgery almost 6 months ago. I have not had any problems with mine. I have lost almost 70 pounds so far. I have 35 more pounds to go and I will be at my goal. I have never had an over fill. But I have had food stuck when I tried to eat something that I knew would get stuck but I did it anyway. I had to get my mind right and change my eating habits in order to be successful.

[DrRRutledge]

Failed Lap Band-Much needed advice about Gastric Bypass ...

10 posts - Last post: Jan 15, 2008

Three years ago I had lap band surgery and lost 17kgs only to have gained back every kilo. I had never felt that the lap band surgery was ...

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[DKK1625]

I had the surgery done in 2004 and i have had some of the same problems that she has had. I had an overfill but i got it taken care of 2 days later and was taken care of. This lady did the compltly wrong thing byt going to Mexico to have it done. Do your reserch and get a good doctor and your problems will not be so bad. And learen that is one surgery is not going to help you having another just diffeearnt type wornt eather . Workout eat better and lose weight ok people

[SluggoBear]

As a lap-band patient myself, I had zero problems after my surgery. The overwhelming majority don't have these kinds of problems.

[DrRRutledge]

How many years have you had the band? The band is 80% successful at 2 years, 50% successful at 5 yrs and some studies say 0% successful at 10 years. The band is great for a while in some patients, but expect failure as time passes. Its a foreign body (a splinter) in you abdomen. FYI look up the Angelchik prosthesis ...

[DrRRutledge]

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[DrRRutledge]

CONCLUSION: As indicated by the worldwide trend, there is an ongoing change from restrictive bariatric procedures to malabsorptive procedures

Obes Surg. 2008 Oct 22. A Nationwide Survey on Bariatric Surgery in Germany-Results 2005-2007.

[ktshudy]

No way would I go to Mexico, I went to Univ. of Penn, and I had a great experience, a year later I can eat everything and I am down 50lbs..going for my first fill this week.

[LinzFrick]

She had a surgical procedure in a place where she could NOT have follow-up appointments?! She got a fill from a different doctor? He didn't know what he was getting into; Not knowing how many CCs were in there to start? DUH. Keep track with the original doc so you can get fills and extractions and they have it on record. You can't eat because your band is tight, duh. Go back to your surgeon!

[dullard5000]

she went to mexico (I believe) because she was told that her bmi wasn't high enough to have it done locally....I've heard of quite a few people having it in mexico (and I've heard of insurance and cost issues too) I don't blame her for having it done abroad. I personally would be too afraid too, but I do understand.

[SUSAN1202]

i totally agree with you about having stuff like this done abroad i had a close friend of mine who did and he passed away... he had an infection in his spleen =(

[eprclos]

Surgery. 2002 Jun;131(6):625 Lap-band failure conversion to gastric bypass Medical College of Virginia Study patients who had failed LapBand converted to a gastric bypass. 50% of LapBand have been removed. Median time to conversion after LapBand was 38 months. The LapBand is associated with a high frequency of inadequate weight loss. Conversion to gastric bypass in this subset of patients is technically challenging but results in superior weight loss in a shorter time period.

[divataunia]

Is there any way to follow-up with this patient and see how she did ? I really feel for her. I'd like to know how she did after the surgery....

[CaliCobe1]

I'm just looking into weight loss surgery, so I don't have experience yet. But this woman says 2:25 mins in, she wasn't heavy enough [to qualify for surgery] so she went to Mexico to have it. She was admittedly was under informed prior to surgery and she didn't have a local follow up doctor. This is a recipe for failure if I've ever heard one.

[disasterscookie]

Is anyone else mortified that she had it in Mexico??!!

I had the lapband surgery 2 months ago and it has been so successful! I have lost almost 30 pounds and my surgeon was amazing! The best in the southwest!

I think it is her fault, going to mexico is kinda asking for failure.

[riverland73]

oh wow congrats, i'm so happy for you. but going to mexico, no..even if was free.

[anarxaki]

She found a doctor that she could not visit afterwards, she had a bad refill and never tried to correct the problem. This is a classic example of a woman that never realized what the band does and how she had to use it.

[lonelygirl30]

If you would have blended fruits and veggies... you would not still be fat! Ice cream, and cookies in your mouth? dont blame the surgery. blame yourself... failiers.. if liquid works better, than do fruits? hello!! bannanas is the perfect food.. sugar free jello... duh, oh boo hoo. stay fatty then!

[lonelygirl30]

r u only upset because you cant eat?