Band Slippage and odds and sods.

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Hi all, Happy New Year to all of you. I wish you strength for todays

meals at hand. I have opped not to cook the traditional turkey and to

just treat today as a normal day due to the fact that the christmas

cookies and cake were much stronger then my will power. Yet I am

happy to say that I didn't gain a single pound, BUT I did trade the

food that I should eat for the bad stuff! I guess with not having a

fill yet and my depression over it just made the devil in me come out

BUT I am on track again and dedicated to the strong will for weight

loss with or without a fill.

I would like to comment that there were five of us going in to have

the band at one time and we all became friends. Within this

friendship we sort of planned our own operations and how our before

and after care was going to go. One thing we did, after reading about

several others having enlarged livers and ending up with open

operations, was to research the liver and as a end result and with

our surgeons best wishes, we all went on a fat free diet one week

before surgery. We discovered that one reason for an enlarged liver

was the fat contient in the diet so we stopped that and none of us

had open. As a matter of fact the surgeon has just put our move in to

play for all the lap band surgeries preop things to do.

I am really in the dark on band slippage. I have read the US and the

Auzzie stats and what they comment on as the percent rate of slippage

but seems to me that I have run into a lot of people that have had it

so how do you avoid it or what do you think you did wrong to get it?

Is it that you didn't measure what you ate and it put pressure on the

size of the pouch? I really don't have a clue what to avoid because I

honestly thought this little sucker was stitched and going no where

soon. Did the stitches break? And how? How do you know if you have

band slippage, is it a heavy feeling or a painful feeling. There is

this one guy in the US that has just been banded recently and he has

a slipped band and from what I gather he is in real pain. His surgeon

wants to take him in and do a RNY on him immediately after christmas

but I read about so many that have had a second band placed. Why

would his doctor want to abort the band so soon- could it be lack of

knowledge on the doctors part since he is part of the FDA trials?

Then the big scare to me is that if I can't get fills - am I more

prone to have slippage because there is nothing taking up the slack?

Help!!!

stephanie