Janie Confidential she is in need if anyone knows her please get incontact with her she is serously in trouble here'e her webpage.http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/profile.phtml?N=C1119633485, i don't know her but i couldn't leave this alone for one of our family is in trouble time to reach out.please keep me posted .thank you sincerely someone who cares your friend bonnie

I am post op patient of Dr Bosquez in Tulsa. I am almost 3 yrs post op having sever upper abdominal pain. My gastro Dr did a EGD on me yesterday ( 6-3-05 )and has questions on what he seen and wanting to talk to Dr Bosquez. Any former patients of Dr Bosquez know for sure where he went how to contact him ? Please email me [email protected]. i found the info after much searching, however i am not sure if he is activly in practice there it doesnt say he is even affiliated with a hospital yet, i did go friday 06/10/05 and consulted with dr gorospe, he didnt seem to inthused about helping me since my surgery was done by dr bosquez. as it turns out my complication is the restriction band has erroded into my pouch it isnt leaking at the moment, dr gorospe stated if it starts i would become extremely ill and have only 48hrs to get surgery. since it is currently stable he advised me to go back home to texas and have my gastro doctor tune me up, with iv iron because i am severly anemic and this would complicate surgery. he apparently is going to look into doing the repair. FYI to all that reads this, I was the third patient in the office friday that has this exact same issue what is really weird is all of us had surgery withing month of each other and all in 2002, the other two were dr gorospe's patients. i am currious to know how many more of us 2002 pt's have this problem. all ive had for past year is upper sever abdominal pain that i would rate a 12+ on pain scale and it comes on without warning and last from 2hrs to 2 to 3 days. i am not really sure that dr gorospe didnt just blow me off and isnt realy going to do the repair i will wait a few days to see if he/his staff does call me. however this must be done ( surgery) and very soon.

Hey Barb, I had my 2nd EGD done Feb. 14, 2005. My Gastrologist here said one of the three ulcers looked to be healing just a little bit. So I go back for another EGD on April 18, 2005. One thing I didn't know after my EGD is December was that my not holding down food was where they re-attached my stomach to my intestine was so swollen thats why nothing heavy would stay down. Which my Dr. said looked better this time. He is a great dr. ashame he isn't a bariatric specialist..... One thing is my ulcer isn't bleeding and they haven't. They are also concentrating on why my hemeglobin and iron lrevels continue to drop. I did cancel my appointment at Vanderbuilt til after my next scope. I hate to make those long 2-2 1/2 hour drives. My problem now is I am having to fight my prescription part of my insurance to continue to pay for my Previcid to cover twice a day. Normal coverage is 31 pills per month. Which is $161.00, where I only pay $40.00 of it. They are not wanting to pay $280.00 which I should find out soon if they are going to I think they have approved it just waiting for the letter. So as it stands, I take 1 30mg Previcid twice a day and 10ml/2 tablespoons liquid Carafate four times a day. But it maybe time for me to go ahead and find other options at this time. I personally don't feel comfortable with my bariactric Dr.'s at this time. I am hoping my new PCP will have better answers for me. I have been told he works very closely with the Bariatric program at my local hospital. Let me know if you find something new that I may not know. Did you have the ulcers prior to your surgery? I didn't. My ulcers are in my intestine and not my stomach. Hope to hear form you soon Cheri

Hello there u gorgeous one! I waivered around 123-125 about 9 months eating anything I wanted. Then over the last few months I krept back up to 135, but perfectly ok with me. Cut back the teeniest bit on my carbs & have dropped to 131-132. This is ideal for me. I think I'm gonna see if I can throw in a little exercise & not have to worry about losing to much again. I do still have those size 0-2 jeans on hand if needed. But I fill out my 3-4's really well now. Some of my wrinkles have plumped back up! Yep girl, it looks like this is pretty much gonna be a waivering situation from now on. But I think as long we don't make any drastic changes, we're gonna be just fine!

I has a very improtant question for Everyone..Anyone. Has anyone devolped Ulcers after your Gastric Bypass. If so, how was it treated? Did you ahve to have surgery to have it removed? Reason for the question is, I had WLS 8/23/2002, diagnosed with an Ulcer right below my pouch March 2003. After a year finally had it surgically removed, 8/20/2004 because they couldn't get it healed. On 12/20/2004, I had a EGD doen becasue they thought I had developed a stricture. Well NOPE...The Ulcer was back. I am at my wits end......and Don't know what to do or even what is causing it. So I am scheduled to have another EGD 2/14/2005, To see if the meds are working. I have scheduled an appointment at Vanderbuilt. No my surgery was nto doen there or with the dr. I am scheduled to see. Should I contact the dr. who did my surgery and see him or stick with going to another dr. Any Suggestions would be GREAT. Cheri