Banding Together

Lap-band surgery offers adjustability that other bariatric procedures do not — and with that flexibility comes its own set of experiences: the fills and unfills, the learning to eat in new ways, the long-term management that the procedure requires. The writers here describe that process with the kind of detail that only comes from living it.

Inside this volume

Fifty accounts describe the decision to pursue lap-band surgery, the placement procedure, and the months and years that followed: the band adjustments, the dietary learning curve, the results and the complications, and for some, the eventual decision to revise or remove the band. Writers are frank about what the procedure delivered and what it did not.

Who it's for

For those considering lap-band surgery, those currently managing life with a band, and family members who want to understand a procedure whose long-term realities are more complex than early expectations suggested.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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