Carole Rondeau, 44, knew her son, Ryan, wanted to lose 72 pounds. They tried everything, but never had any luck. So Carole did research and came upon Jump6™ Weight Loss Program, which features a water-filled gastric balloon. The procedure is non-surgical; essentially, patients have a soft silicone intragastric balloon, in deflated form, inserted into the […]
Tammy Kwarciak, a 44-year-old nurse whose weight had been creeping up for years, was determined to lose 50 pounds. So in February, she drove from her home in Port Huron, Mich., across the border into Canada and had a small balloonlike device inserted into her stomach. The intragastric balloon, filled with liquid and left in […]