You guys ever heard of this?
Only 65 patients who have used abiliti in clinical trials, half have kept the pacemaker in for a year (it lasts for up to five years).
This seems like a small number of people to extrapolate any meaningful data from regarding whether it works or not, and why did they ONLY keep it in for a year? Why not the full 5 years?
The majority of those patients lost 20% of their weight.
That's not much weight lost. I'm already worried that I might only lose 65% - 80% of my excess weight in 18 months.
The pacemaker, which was approved for sale this month in the EU, costs $24,040 including implantation.
It's pretty expensive and it looks like you'd have to go to the EU to have it done. When it is approved in the US, Insurance companies are pretty unlikely to cover this new procedure. They just recently started covering the Lap band, and many still consider the Sleeve as experimental, so it could be quite a while after it is approved before they'd cover this procedure.
The stomach pacemaker is expected to go on sale in the U.S. by 2014, at which point Intrapace can really find out if its device can stem the obesity epidemic.
This is the last line of the article, which clearly states that it wont be available in the US for several more years. The real kicker is where it says "at which point Intrapace can really find out if its device can stem the obesity epidemic". To me this says they don't have any idea how effective it will be.
In all my years I have seen a zillion lotions, potions, pills and processes to loose weight and tried a lot of them. None worked long term. I finally had to pick something drastic but effective because there really isn't an easy or magical way to lose weight. So far I have been so happy with the decision I made.
Kat
