I know random people who have had it done. A cousin-in-law, very successful for many years. She was fairly young? and encouraged me to do it. She is living happily ever after. I used to work with a woman, she was in her 20's, no problems with the surgery, but we have lost touch. I see a woman around town, she looks like she is regaining some now, but no complications. A local (Detroit) councilwoman died from the gastric band about 10 years ago, I think the dr was new at it. My pdoc encouraged me 10 years ago to do so, but a) I read too many stories about smelly "results" and b) I think the only surgery that would make me more attractive to a potential partner would be a frontal lobotomy