I am feeling a little off balance today. Someone sent me a website about the mini-gastric bypass. On the website, which was sponsored by a doctor that does mini-gastric bypass, there was a whole section on the LAP-BAND®. He said that a lot of doctors in Europe have stopped doing the LB becuase of poor results and complications after the first few years. He stated that the US is 10 years behind Europe since they were so late in getting the LB approved. He removes a lot of lapbands and then does the MGB on them. The MGB takes about an hour and supposedly is very safe and reversal. Has anyone heard of this? I just feel like crying, because even though I am doing relatively well so far, I can see that there are definite disadvantages, like having to get fills (maintance) and PBing, sliming, etc. This was such a hard decision and now to find out that there might be a better procedure out there is very frustrating. I guess that I should stop worrying about what could have been and deal with what is. I always knew that something better would come a long in the future, but I didn't think there was anything better out there now. Well, I'm not trying to depress anyone else, I just feel the need for some support, and my DH is probably getting a little tired of this subject.

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242/ 150/ Goal: 150
Abdominoplasty, Mastoplexy 3/6/08 Unfill: 3/10/08, Fill: 5/2/08 2.0; Band removed due to slippage & rebanded 7/17/08, Fill: 9/08 2.2