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Lady_K1126
on 6/23/14 5:05 am

I am curious as to what my particular surgery is referred to on the boards. I'm not having sleeve, band, or RNY. It is just a straight gastric bypass. Any help would be appreciated!

HW: 360 CW: 291.8 GW: 170

Kate -True Brit
on 6/23/14 5:18 am - UK

Lap Band on 04/23/06

Well that shows how ignorant I am! I thought Roux en Y just described the way gastric bypass was done and that RNY/gastric bypass were the same thing! I look forward to someone who knows answering this!

Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.

Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!

But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,

Brad Special
Snowflake
on 6/23/14 5:42 am

VSG on 12/06/12

RNY is the gastric bypass. Here is a link fromt the American Surgeons bariatric association.

RNY

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Tracy D.
on 6/23/14 5:52 am - Papillion, NE

VSG on 05/24/13

Sorry, I'm no help - my understanding has always been that RNY and DS were both gastric bypass surgeries (surgeries that provide a partial bypass of the intestines).

Tracy 5'3" HW: 235 SW: 218 CW: 132 M1: -22 M2: -13 M3: -12 M4: -9 M5: -8 M6: -10 M7: -4

Goal reached in 7 months and 1 week!

Lower Body Lift w/Dr. Barnthouse 7-8-15

MsBatt
on 6/23/14 9:04 am

DS on 12/11/03

Actually, the word 'gastric' refers to the stomach, not the intestines. Technically, only the RNY bypasses the stomach---the DS does not.

Lady_K1126
on 6/23/14 10:30 am

I went back to a book on the subject and evidently I am having the RNY. The docs at my clinic just refer to it as bypass. I think that's what confused my brain. :)

HW: 360 CW: 291.8 GW: 170

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