IS RNY reversable?

happyhealing
on 9/13/11 7:28 am

Is this procedure reversable? I mean if I keep having problems I just want to be put back the way I was. Just wondering how that would work and if I really would NEVER be the same.

sjweiser
on 9/13/11 7:30 am

RNY on 02/25/11

Sorry but the RNY is not reversable.

poet_kelly
on 9/13/11 7:36 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Actually it is.

www.bayareagastricbypass.com/gastric-bypass-questions.htm#ob 8

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.

poet_kelly
on 9/13/11 7:34 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

It is, but it's a difficult surgery to perform and not all surgeons do it. It can be riskier than the original surgery. And it is possible that even after a reversal, some problems may continue.

Kelly

davis93
on 9/13/11 10:34 am - NC

this si good to know i also have alot of problems go back to the dr friday

Jenni_9yrspostop
on 9/13/11 8:08 am

My doctor is one of the few I guess who can do a reversal and he's done a couple that I know of. Both came out ok. If you're having problems work with your doctor, many have issues at first but afterwhile things settle down and tha patient realizes the problems were worth it. Give it some time, it's all new and we had our body operated on, not our heads. That takes a bit longer to come around.
Good luck to you -

Jen 10 yrs post op

Kat Kat
on 9/13/11 9:33 am - AZ

RNY on 04/15/11

Just as Kelly said, my surgeon said it's reversable. Not that I'd want to go back to where I was again.

Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version
on 9/13/11 10:27 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

Yes, it technically IS reversible, but it is generally only done in extreme cases where your health is in significant danger if it is NOT reversed. Not many surgeons are qualified to do it because it is a very complex surgery (much more complex than doing the RNY in the first place). Because the reversal means needing to reattach the remnant stomach, you will never be the same as you were before -- your digestive system will be pieced back together -- and may have issues at the reattachment sites.

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

PTM
on 9/13/11 11:02 am

RNY on 02/07/11

I actually didn't know that the procedure was reversible - and it's probably best that I didn't since the first three months after my surgery were so incredibly miserable, I would have undone it in a heartbeat.

Here's hoping you'll be feeling better soon, Davis93. Would hate to think you'd gone through all this only to have to undergo another surgery.

Margaret HW: 342 SW: 320 CW: 228 GW: 175

Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version
on 9/13/11 11:07 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

Even if you HAD known, and had asked to have it reversed, it is unlikely that your surgeon would have agreed after just problems the first couple of months (even if he is one of the relatively few surgeons properly trained to reverse a RNY). It is almost always reserved for people whose health is in serious jeopardy if it is not reversed.

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.