Well here's my story. My husband and I are both self pay and we had it done in Mexico in January. We have Kaiser. 1 month after his procedure his band had slipped. We went to kaiser and those doctors could not find anything wrong. He was in so much pain he had passed out a few times over this 8 day ordeal. All Kaiser would do was to give him a shot of diloted, morphine did not work, and send him home. This went on for 8 days until one doctor did his job and found another doctor who knew what the problem was. Until that day we had not known it had slipped. Now since Kaiser does not do lap bands the only option he gave us was to just remove it or remove it and give him a gastric Sleeve http://www.yourbariatricsurgeryguide.com/gastric-sleeve/ we went for the sleeve. The weight loss is about the same as he has now lost 70lbs. When talking to the nurses we found a doctor for my fills who is not a kaiser doctor but is a specialist and will take Kaiser patients by referal from kaiser. Kaiser gave me the referal for my first fill but for my second they wanted the doctor to send to them an explanation of what he will be doing so that they can justify paying for it. I am still waiting for that to be sent but it looks like I can get my fills paid for by Kaiser. Dr Billy will do fills for anyone. http://www.thebandmd.com/Default
