Should I have gastric by pass or lap band surgery?
My weight is really affecting my health. Just wondering if anyone out there has any experiences with either, that they can relate. I’m trying to decide if I should have one of them done. I’ll probably go with the lap band, if I do. One of my closest friends in the whole wide world ballooned to almost 400lbs at one point in her life. She had tried having her jaws wired, and that didn’t last, then she tried the gastric band thing, which worked to a point, but all it seemed to do was stop her putting on anymore weight, she didn’t seem to lose any, and also, it didn’t make her feel full so she still over-ate, but would just end up vomiting. When they removed the band they told her that she had somehow managed to stretch it aswell, so finally she decided to go for Gastric By-Pass surgery. The thing with Gastric By-Pass surgery is that they will only do it in extreme cases where the person is morbidly obese and will basically die in the very near future if something is not done about it. Mol
