schlerotherapy at Brigham and women's
Hi everyone, I am 2 years out from my RNY and had stopped losing at 10 months out and have pretty much maintained my weight loss (65 lbs) since then give or take like 10 pounds up and down. my doc works with another doc at B&W that does this therapy via endoscope. I have toyed with the idea for about a year and am now seriously consideriing since I am not where I want to be. I have only lost a little over half of my expected weight loss. so I am wondering, has anyone heard about this therapy/procedure? Anyone had it done? This doc at B&W endoscope invented the procedure and it really isn't done too many places. Thanks
it's not surgery. what they do is inject your port with a solution which causes it to get inflammed. once the inflammation goes down, scar tissue forms and makes your port/opening smaller. it takes about 3 procedures to get it small enough. my insurance (BCBS) didn't cover so I called it off. The doc that does it is a really great guy. My pouch and port are a bit larger than they'd like-Dr. Thompson said either they weren't made small enough or a staple came out or it was stretched out. Very early out, I expressed concern that I could eat a full serving size of what they told us to eat-like say 1/4 cup cott cheese and I could eat a 1/4 cup-didn't know my nerves were cut and would not feel full for a while but I stayed within their guidelines.