Category: Lap Band Surgery

Lap Band Surgery Failure Stories

We bring you the latest news and information related to bariatric weight loss surgery. Here is today's news:

We have just posted a new article that compiles some Lap-Band surgery failure stories that are floating around the Internet. We also put them into perspective by adding a few success stories as well.

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As you know, we try to present both sides of the bariatric surgery here at BLC, and this is another prime example. If you spend some time on YouTube looking at Lap-Band failure stories and videos, you’ll notice that most (if not all) of them were created by one particular doctor. That doctor specializes in the mini gastric bypass procedure, and it quickly becomes clear that he is one of the “band bashers.”

Here’s how the process usually unfolds. A doctor who does not perform gastric banding will feel threatened by the success stories and all of the advertising of the band surgeries. After all, the rising popularity of Lap-Band and similar banding procedures could hurt the doctor’s bypass business. So the doctor will seek out all of the negative / failure stories he can find, and he will present them for your reading or viewing pleasure.

In other words, always consider the source and take these things with a grain of salt. Many of the happy success stories you find online were collected and presented by Lap-Band surgery centers … for obvious reasons. Many of the failure stories you find online were gathered by gastric bypass doctors … again, for obvious reasons.

But there is some value in the surgery failure stories we have collected for you, as well as the success stories you can find on this website. When taken as a whole, they help you get a broader picture of Lap-Band surgery in general.

Here’s the bottom line. Bariatric surgeries are like any other medical procedures in that they have pros and cons associated with them. Some of them go smoothly, while others do not. The same can be said of Lasik eye treatments, knee surgeries, appendectomies … you get the idea.