Question for anyone who had to have their silastic ring removed

Hello,

 I had lap rny on 12/26/2007.  In April 2008, I had to have my silastic ring removed because my body rejected it.  As a result I have stretched my pouch to the point I can eat "normally" but I do still get the dumping syndrome if I eat too much sugar/carbohydrates.  I weighted around 475 when I had the surgery.  I now weight 387 although my lowest weight since the surgery has been 349.  I saw my surgeon on Thursday 8/12/10 and as we were talking I reminded him that he had removed my silastic ring.  He suggested that I try the South Beach diet.

Has anyone else had this problem?  Has anyone used the South Beach diet to lose weight after having any type of bariatric surgery?

Thanks.

Tina in OK

Did u have the lab band surg or the rny....I had the rny and my dr put a ring around my pouch...I have probs with food getting stuck and he wanted to remove the ring and I said no...

I had the RNY surgery. The doctor had to remove the ring because the entrance to my pouch had closed up so I couldn't even drink water.

When I saw my surgeon this month, he offer to do another surgery to put the ring back. I quickly vetoed that idea. It made no sense to me to put something back in my body that had rejected once. I had have too many problems/complications from the surgery to even consider having more surgery done.

So now I'm back to trying to diet to lose weight.