This is harassment.  Leave me alone.

I will close my account.  One day I will tell my story with your notes included.

Be proud of yourselves.....It's easy to have a big set of balls online.

Wow.  You just blew off, most rudely and for no provocation whatsoever, one of the kindest, warmest, most caring people on OH.  Not only that, but she is a SURGEON, and one of the most knowledgeable people who could POSSIBLY have answered your question.  You're an idiot.

How "high-profile" you are?  That sounds like code for the color of your skin - I've never heard anyone else use that phrase.  What are you, some has-been, washed-up fat former actress?  You are "high-profile" but all you have is crappy Tricare HMO insurance?  Puh-leeze.

I've got news for you.  You have VERY few possible options - which Larra most KINDLY laid out for you.  You have a failed RNY.  Band over bypass doesn't work.  Stomaphyx doesn't work.  The ROSE procedure doesn't work.  Plication doesn't work.  And changing your failed proximal RNY to a distal or ERNY is likely to at best give you the worst parts of RNY and DS - too much restriction, leading you to eat crap like you've already been eating, plus severe malabsorption, leading to malnutrition and osteoporosis and chronic diarrhea and a miserable life.  Larra was trying to lead you to investigating your alternatives, which are very very few.  But you somehow read into the kind things she wrote, and spent probably a good 45 minutes of her valuable time writing - FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN TO HELP YOUR SORRY ASS - into something that OFFENDED you?? WTF??

You have Tricare - you're screwed.  You are a self-pay, and unless your "high-profile" self saved some money from what used to be your career, you aren't getting ANY surgery that is going to do you any damned good.  There is basically only one thing likely to work, and you're not going to learn it from Larra or me.

Please feel free to block me too - you deserve whatever you get from your ridiculous, pompous "high-profile" attitude.  "In the scheme of it, it doesn't matter" - either to me, or to what is going to happen to you.  You've already screwed yourself.

Between this and your more recent question about surgery in Mexico vs in the USA, my sense is that you have not figured out what to do, you just know that things are not as they should be and you want to do SOMETHING.
     I think before you get to sorting out what surgeons are covered here, whether or not to go to Mexico, etc., the most fundamental question to address is how to remedy the current situation. You have already had gastric bypass. It ain't working so well for you. You seem to be considering getting it redone, somehow, but you don't say that there is any technical problem with the operation you currently have. If it's still a proper gastric bypass, I don't understand how doing "gastric bypass again" is going to help you.
   I understand even less how lap band would help, as it is less effective and has a much higher failure rate than gastric bypass. There are some surgeons out there doing band over bypass, but results are unknown. Is that really the direction you want to go?
     I think, before you try to get insurance coverage, pick a surgeon, location, etc, you need to sort out what, if anything, is wrong with the operation you have already, and then figure out how to get better results. Please note that I'm not saying that you did anything wrong, I have no idea what the cause of your failure is, and I can tell you that over on the DS forum we see new people seeking revision from failed gastric bypass and failed lap band all the time. 
     You requested "practical advice". My practical advice is to having your gastric bypas studied to see if it's still as it should be. If not, that MAY help you get insurance coverage, depending on your policy. If the gastric bypass looks perfect, that would say, to me, that having "gastric bypass again" would be futile and you need to look at other options. 
    And regarding Mexico specifically, I very much doubt that this is a safe option for you, as you need revision surgery, which is more complex and more risky than the original operation, and there are less surgeons who do revisions. There are good surgeons in Mexico, but less for revisions, and you don't have the safeguards that you would have in the USA.

Larra

Hello Kerry, Yes I am really happy and look forward to the Options classes. Good Luck to you too :-)

Hi.....I am also in the Options classes at Fontana, and will graduate in Aug.  I have been really happy with the classes and have learned a lot!  Welcome and best of luck with your journey!

Kerry