Hi La Wanda, You may want to post this on the main message board. This VBG board moves very very slow. Not alot of ppl read this..... Just a thought! Eve

Hi Paula.. I had a VBG on August of 2003 its been 2 official years now lost 90lbs.. not as much as with a RNY.. but I seriously have no complaints at all.. yea I can eat a little more then I use to.. but.. still I'm soooooo much better off then I was before that I would repeat this surgery in a heart beat... good luck to you!!

Hi Sara, Hope that everything is going well for you. I am still having a hard time staying "on course". It is hard to imagine that I am almost done losing weight. It is pretty hard for me to imagine. I have lost 10# so far and need to lose an additional 40# before surgery. I am continuing to go to the gym. I have started going for 15 minutes in the morning before work. I am also going during lunch about 3 days per week. Hopefully the weight will just keep slowly falling off. I am no longer walking while at work though. I am in the process of refinancing my house to pay for my upcoming tummy tuck surgery ($6,000) and to get a different vehicle. Once the money is sitting in my account waiting I hope that it will provide all of the motivation that I find myself lacking right now. I am seriously considering going on a liquid diet for the last 25 pounds. I want to lose 25 on my own first though. Anyway... I feel the pressure. Sure wish my therapist was back from maternity leave so that I could go talk and plan with her. She doesn't get bac****il December though. I guess in a sense it is right around the corner. Talk to you soon... Let me know how things are going for you! Best Regards... Sharon 340 then/196 now/156 goal

Is the VGB the one where there is a permanant ring around your stomach, does not get adjusted and no intestines were re-routed? I am curious as before I had met my husband, he had a stomach surgury, I believe he called it "stomach stapling" and I wondered if this is the forum related to his surgury. I had the lap band installed in June, and everything about the two seem to be the same other than my band is tightened gradually and there were no cuts on the stomach, and no staples. Thanks for youe help!!

you may need to have it done Laprascopticly. 4 insisions were they put camera and other things in u you do the surgery, as for the staples you may need to go with RNY or something that doesn't use staples... look up all the information u can on all of the different types of surgery there is before deciding on this one, and if this is the one that your GP thinks is good for you, talk to the surgeon about the problem with Staples, your doctor will have better information for you . Best of luck