February 5th

I'm going in for my revision to a DS.  I have my pre-op Jan 26.  I'll be staying with my mother for 3-4 weeks (excluding hospital time).

Oh boy.... my curiosity is awake again...LOL.... feel free to tell me it's none of my business

What kind of surgery did you get last time? Why are you getting a revision?
That's great that you have your mom to stay with!

 

 I had a vertical banded gastroplasty, a VBG, i*****  I also had a stomach staple in 1982.  

I'm going for a DS because I've done the restriction thing   and want to be able to eat more normally. It's worth the trade off to me.    Also the stats on keeping off the weight forever and curing my diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea are better.  

 good luck with  ur revision i hope it works out bettter for u this time around sounds like u have tried everything u could  an still nothing has helped to get u healthy.. im hoping hte gastric bypass helps with my diabetes an sleep apena as well among other ailments, i'll keep u in my prayers.. 

 ~peg 

 I'm sure it wil.  My VBG helped me for years.  It wasn't until I got really sick of throwing up and not being able to eat food such as meat or bread that I went to a doc who dilated my stoma and I could eat more normally, but I gained weight after that.  

It seemed as if I had to either basically not eat food (and not go to a restaurant or celebrate a holiday or anything with food) to be a normal weight.  If I ate even close to a normal person, I'd to be fat.  Basically, the bypass helped me to stay on the equivalent of an extremely strict diet.  If I ate food, basically, I threw up.  I had to live on mushy stuff such as baby food and protein drinks.  

So that's why I'm going for a DS this time.  I want to be normal weight, yet able to eat normal food.  But I am grateful for the VBG.  It gave me years when I was a normal weight