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I have graduated to a gym membership!!! I am able to walk my subdivision without issues, time to implement a lil resistance... This time will be better than the first... I have a better understanding and most importantly I CHOSE LIFE!!! I have another opportunity to take control of myself.... mind, body and SOUL
Search here on OH for "distal RNY".
Hopefully you are working with a therapist to work though all the issues you have been through. The mental part is definitely the toughest. You need to remember that no surgery is "magic". If you eat too much even with the distal RNY, you will gain weight.
Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."
I understand having time to heal.
I too have reflux and can't take it any longer.
Gateway told me to do whatever time I'm told. The person. Did say due to having the band I would probably only wait three months.
I will be 6 years post op VSG in June. The severe GERD started about 4 months ago. Before that I took 1 PPI in the morning and all was well. I don't know what changed. I had an endoscopy and my gastro told me to go see my surgeon. Right now I am taking 80 mg on Protonix in the morning. I then have to take Pepcid in the afternoon and before bed. I awoke at 4 am with a belly full of acid and burning and coughing. I am scheduled to see my surgeon on Thursday.
I am don't know what he will do, but I am thinking he will do a revision. Probably a minor one with 150 channel. Not sure what I am talking about, but a friend has the same surgeon and this is what happened to her. She is also 6 years post op.
My surgeon stopped doing bypass a few years ago, but will do it for this reason.
I am not sure what to expect. When I know more I will post.
Hello
I had my EGD last thursday. I get my results April 12.so we shall see. I will keep you posted..Good Luck
I had the band and revised to bypass this past December. I developed severe acid reflux/GERD and it had to go. The band was taken out in August and the bypass was done 4 months after. I did not have to wait 6 months but my insurance had me take all of the steps of the process again. My doctor also wanted to give my insides time to heal. Good luck in your journey.
You can't measure your achievements with someone else's yardstick!
Revision from lapband to RNY 12/26/17 with Dr. Caitlin Halbert
HW 260 SW 248 CW 154 GW 145
Gallbladder removed 9/18
Beth
I am not really new to oh. I just deleted my account a long time ago. This actually my 15 year anniversary of my original surgery and 8 year anniversary of my revision. I lost down to 195 from 385 after losing 115 pounds on my own. Then due to many trials that I won't burden you with I regained to 285. I went to Cleveland clinic where after much testing I was told my metabolism was a mess and always had been. The clinic did the exact procedure you're describing to me. Long story short I am 5'10" and weigh 135. If I don't eat constantly I drop 2-3 pounds a week
Hiya
I had about 150cm bypassed with my RNY bypass. This left me with 4-5metres of common channel (where food and vitamins get broken down and absorbed). A DS only leaves about 60 CC. Hence the extreme malabsorption for DS patients.
Hi!
How are you doing now?
I am so glad I found you - I am having similar surgery to you in 3 weeks time.
I had my bypass in 2011 and at the time had 150cm bypassed, as well as my stomach made into a pouch. Now I am having a revision where I will have more bypassed (approx 150) and that will leave me with a common channel of 300cm. My pouch won't be touched either.
I think we're similar although 40% seems a bit more than me.
how is it all going for you?
Hi,
I decided on a revision when I my son was 2 and I realised I was nearly back up to my pre bypass weight :( I had tried from the day of giving birth to lose the weight, but it just wouldn't budge. It was like as soon as I became a mother, my metabolism was at 0?!
I went to see my original surgeon (which I recommend you do) and then from there he referred me for tests. So I went to see a psychologist for an evaluation (to see if I was ready to lose weight again after the miscarriages and subsequent depression I had), had a Gastroscopy and then an endoscopy. I thought I was done but then he also sent me for a barium swallow too! This was all coming out of my pocket and very pricey. Endoscopy was the priciest at 2,100 for that alone.
anyway all of the results helped him in knowing what my pouch/stoma/mind was like, before he could tell me what the best revision option would be for me.
my surgery is now in 3 weeks. 7 years after my original surgery.
hope that helped!
