Sleeve Revision....WHOOP WHOOP!!!!
OH MY WORD!! It has taken forever for this process!! I finished my 6 months dietician meetings in February...and it took the doctor's office four months to send in request for the surgery..then it was sent to Blue Cross four times and I kept being told it wasn't received...August 8th, got my letter stating my surgery had been approved, don't have to file an appeal...I am sooooooooooooooooo happy!! I go in for my preop testing beginning early September and then I will get my surgery date. I am hoping that I'll getin sometime early 2012. It's in the works so I am calming down now and just waiting. I don't have time to twiddle my thumbs, lol, and worry about the date...I have two teens to raise, working fulltime and in school fulltime, so yeah...not much time to frett LOL:0) Just still living in the happiness of the approval, it's gonna happen....WHOOOOOOOP WHOOOOOOP!!!!! I am only having my sleeve size revised, nothing with my common channel, it's already 70, she said that is a short as she goes. Actually she said she doesn't go below 75 anymore. So shrinking sleeve it is:) I'm nervous but also very happy!! Anyone else out there in the sleeve revision process??!!!
Betty
This reminded me of something. I remember reading some time back that Brok had Dr. Inman for his DS, and then also to treat his bowel obstruction, and that she measured his common channel longer at the time of obstruction than when she originally made it. Yes, the intestines are very stretchy, but I would think the same surgeon usually uses around the same level of tightness or slackness at different times. If you are interested in having more malabsorption (and I am not saying you should, but based on how happy you are with your labs, any bathroom problems or intolerances, etc., and the risks of side effects from more malabsorption vs benefits), you could ask her if, during the revision surgery, she would measure your common channel to see if it has grown, and that if it measures longer than it used to, if she would be willing to shorten it to 75 or 70 cm.
Good luck --> well, I say that, but I have also heard the phrase "I don't believe in luck, I believe in blessings," so I wish you those, too!
Of course you may ask, lol, but I don't know!! I know when I had it done in 2008 that they made my sleeve 5 and a half ounces..I know it' stretched alot since then. Oh my word, I can get an entire meal at Texas Roadhouse in along with a couple rolls...I have to pace myself...its nuts. I' am having pre testing done so I should know more soon!