scared!!

I am 27 years old, scheduled for banding on May 8th. I have heard these stories about people having problems!! It scares me to death. Because of our age are we less likley to have these problems. How many of you have been problem free, and if nor what kind of problems did you have. Did you lose weight fast or slow? I was also wondering about the extra skin thing. I have heard that its not as bad if you are young. Im not that big either, Im 5'10 and 280. I just wanted to ask people my age and see what kind of experiance they had!! Thanks

I was more than twice your age at Banding and have had what can best be described as "Newbie's anxieties" in the beginning.

No real problems have occurred. There is a rather steep learning curve on a whole new lifestyle.

My only complaint is that the Band was not available 30 years ago so I could have avoided all that unnecessary misery of Morbid Obesity all those decades.

im only three months out but i haven't had any problems but that doesn't mean anything either. There are so many variables it would be impossible to tell you for sure. I was scared to thats why i had this surgery and not the bypass cause i couldn't get over my fear to have the bypass but got over to have this one. The best advice I think is to know that you can trust your surgon (sp?)

Nothing to do with age, but I had a flipped port that required an additional surgery. Still 100% love my band!
I have gone to the ER twice since banding, first time I thought I had blood clots, but I just pulled a muscle from not taking my pain meds post-op. 2nd time was a couple weeks ago, I had sharp contraction pains. They never gave me a conclusive answer, but I am pretty confident it had nothing to do with the band. Unless, I was compacted from how little bowel movements I now have with the band. Doc that was helping me at the hospital is actually a bariatric surgeon and he didn't seem to think it had anything to do with the band, he thought I had food poisoning.

And that's the extent of it, nothing I would blame the band for, or wish I hadn't done it. It's the best thing I did for me!!