The wrong surgery was done

It could be their inner-office terminology, as incorrect as it is.  The description leads me to believe you got a DS as well

My surgeon, for example, calls it a BPD, which was horror to my ears.  I made absolutely positively sure I was getting a BPD-DS and not the old Scarpinaro BPD.  She reassured me it was, and it is, but those nicknames can be a problem.

Hold your horses! The DS, while not a gastric bypass, most definitely a malabsorptive bypass, meaning that most of the small intestine is bypassed. The DS ALWAYS has a Sleeved stomach (anything else is NOT a DS) and very long intestinal bypass (the 'Switch'.)

Your surgical notes that you posted below are largely incomprehensible, but if they say what I think they say, you did indeed get a DS.

Can you actually scan your notes, or copy them here word for word?

During my conversations with my surgeon, he told me that if the RnY was not a fully viable option ****urs when the small intestine cannot readily be attached to the pouch), the fall back is a VSG.  However, we discussed this up front.  Just a possible explanation if indeed they did not perform the desired RnY.

Regards,

Mike

As previously stated first get hold of your surgical report and consents.  Medical terminology and documentation can be hard to decipher. Sometimes the same procedure can be called several different things. I was originally planning for  a VSG and was told that if my liver didn't "shrink" enough with my preop  diet that the surgeon would do the sleeve. If you know a medical person have them look and the consents and op report to see what was really done.  Also get a copy of the Xray report that shows you had a sleeve, (a partial gastrectomy), I don't know if a regular xray would even show that (but I could be wrong about that!)

Anne

Oh yeah you need to find out about all the paperwork from the surgery before you know for sure whether you have a VSG or RNY. Also, I agree with some of the posters to find out about the consent form you signed which allows a second option such as a VSG if an RNY cannot be performed. I have read about several patients who expected an RNY but woke up with a VSG due to adhesions or complications. However, they were TOLD after waking they received a VSG. IF you did indeed receive a VSG and were not given notice of it, there is indeed something very wrong here.

It seems that because of someone else's post; responses to mine were somehow either lost or re-routed to the other.  If someone has anything they can add to the original post; please let me know.  I have Lupus, and I'm having a loopy day.   My doctor did say that he received paperwork that said my follow-up was for the gastric by-pass: so there was no mis-understanding that I did not sign for, nor was I aware that I underwent a sleeve procedure. 

Your surgeon's paperwork on your follow up appointment might be incorrect (it happens all the time... I know someone whose paperwork indicated they removed the gallbladder but the surgical report -- and later ultrasound -- shows that was not the case).  

What you really NEED, and the only evidence of what you signed for, is the surgical consent.  Get a copy of that -- and the operative report -- ASAP.

Lora