I haven’t been happy with the lap band for a while. I’ve been stuck. I had lost over 90 pounds, then started gaining again and I’m at a total of 70 pounds lost.
\nI’ve tried a bunch of stuff, but nothing has worked. Well, that’s not true, I started losing weight again with Precision Nutition – an online program.
\nI went saw the bariatric surgeon who initially did the lap band surgery but wasn’t happy with his attitude. He wanted to put me under and look at the band. He didn’t explain what he was talking about until I asked, and that was about 5 minutes of talking to me, with me totally confused. Before I left, I mentioned to the office staff I would rather talk to him about a revision before we did anything else, but that request went ignored.
\nWhen I went to looking for him, he didn’t come as being covered by my insurance. Another surgeon that I had seen for aftercare DID come up and after not hearing from the initial surgeon about the revision, I made an appointment with her.
\nI’m very happy with her, and I’ve proceeded with her suggestions. Since I’m 60, we did a cardiac workout and apparently I’m cleared — but haven’t gotten the official word yet.
\nI’ve also had an upper GI, and apparently the band has slipped slightly. I’ll know more after the surgeon gets back from vacation.
\nThe best part is that I’ve gotten the office staff work with me. They wanted a sleep study and I finally got across to them that I don’t need one because I’m under the care of sleep doctor and am on CPAP therapy.
\nI’m happiest because I found a dietitian I like in June and I can use her instead of the one they referred that I don’t like. That also means I’ve checked off two of the four visits I need for that. I’m hoping I can keep her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I haven’t been happy with the lap band for a while. I’ve been stuck. I had lost over 90 pounds, then started gaining again and I’m at a total of 70 pounds lost. I’ve tried a bunch of stuff, but nothing has worked. Well, that’s not true, I started losing weight again with Precision Nutition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status","category-lapband","category-lapband-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}