I've only ever seen one person on here from hawaii well you make two lol as for banding over bypass, I've heard alot of accounts of doctors preferring the bypass, I dunno why, overall it is preference, I think if people need to loose a huge amount of weight quickly for a certain reason definitely go with the bypass but if you want to loose slower, less saggy skin, no vomitting if you eat 20g or more of sugar lol then go for the band. As for me I haven't had the band yet but hopefully next month =) Good luck

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