Hi Lindsay,
Have you found the site
Lap Band Talk Forum - The largest forum for Lap Band Surgery Discussion and Lap Band Surgery Support and go to thread "hi....nikki from Ireland"theres a whole heap of lIrish lapband people there.I dont want to upset your plans BUT (I had researched all this as I was gung ho to have it also but changed to rny which is right FOR ME)there is a Belgian Dr recently coming to Dublin called Chris de bruyne(google him) and he does the op for about 3400 in Belgium-VERY good reports of his thoroughness.You need to consider how easy it will be for you to get fills (and De-fills if you have a complications)back and forth on a plane isn't ideal and Chris is coming to Dublin about once a month.He replies to email quite quickly-it may be
obesityassist.com: The Leading Obesity Site on the Net or something like that.
Hope this is a help sweety,well done for taking the initiative and not waiting til you're an ould one like me!!
One thing to be aware of is that tho the back pages of the thread I recommended are good,recently there has been problems at the Advanced Cosmetic Surgery and the media managed to get into the website and apparently ran a programme quoting a lot of the posts-the members have all(rightly so)become very cagey about what they say and are pm-ing each other onstead.However the earlier stuff should give you a great idea of what to expect with your banding op and aftercare. \good luckxx
I am getting the gastric band done in april the 21st in brussels, have it all booked and paid for, costin me 5680, which is cheap, compared to the one in Dublin, which was 10k, i think the surgeon aint working there anymore coz he didnt get paid? i dunno..
did anyone get it done here in brussels?
a bit nervous, a bit scared and a bit excited all in one.
i am 5"10" and 22.5 stone!! horrible i know, i have tried everything possible and think this is the last resort. have looked it up on the net, hence finding this site and ther is mostly good things to be said about it!
can someone be my buddy when it comes to this so i can at least relate to someone who has it done.
my email is
lgarde@hotmail.com
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