Sleeve to bypass

bwhit13
on 9/22/15 8:00 pm

I had the gastric sleeve I June 2013 and dropped 150 pounds this put my bmi at 16% I lost way to much weight and my stomach will not hold or absorb food. Regardless of what I eat eatit instantly dumps. I had a feeding tube put on 6 weeks ago and I am hooked up ro it 15 hours a day and half only gained 5 pounds. So at 5'11" I weigh 125. My doctor now wants to convert my sleeve to a by pass and I am curious if anyone has had this done and what is the benefits of the switch? Never thought I would have to fight to actually gain weight. 

White Dove
on 9/23/15 4:29 am - Warren, OH

That is the craziest thing I have ever heard.  A bypass would cause more weight loss.  Please get to a therapist.  You need a lot of help and do not need surgery.

Real life begins where your comfort zone ends

rocky513
on 9/23/15 4:47 am - WI

So your doctor wants to add malabsorption to your list of problems?  This makes NO sense.  

People with the sleeve don't usually "dump" because you still have a pyloric valve.  What happens to you when you "dump'?

HW 270 SW 236 GW 160 CW 145 (15 pounds below goal!)

VBG Aug. 7, 1986, Revised to RNY Nov. 18, 2010

Grim_Traveller
on 9/23/15 4:59 am
RNY on 08/21/12

Things have been slow around here lately. I didn't think they were this slow.

6'3" tall, male.

Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.

M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.

Valerie G.
on 9/23/15 5:14 am - Northwest Mountains, GA

You're kidding, right?

You need to stop seeing this doc right away and see another doc to determine what in the hell he did to you.

Valerie
DS 2005

There is room on this earth for all of God's creatures..
next to the mashed potatoes

Maria27
on 9/23/15 6:32 am - Chicago, IL
RNY on 03/17/15

What everyone else said. Get a second opinion from a different doctor. Bypass will make you lose more weight! 

Height: 5'5" HW: 290 Consultation Weight: 276 SW: 257 CW: 132

Tracy D.
on 9/23/15 8:14 am - Papillion, NE
VSG on 05/24/13

Second opinion....stat! There is no benefit to this switch unless there are a lot more medical complications/info that you're not sharing with us. 

Good luck - this doesn't sound fun. 

 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

   

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

Zee Starrlite
on 9/23/15 9:20 am

At 5'11 you'd have to weigh 115lbs to have a BMI of 16.  If you weigh 125lbs and are 5'11, your BMI is 17.4.  This means a huge difference when you are an anorexic or suffering from such.

Your stomach instantly dumps or you throw up?  If you are throwing up then yes, your body can't absorb food it never had.

Who did your surgery - SERIOUSLY  Edward Scissor Hands?  Are you sure you did not get a distal bypass already?  Maybe a stricture or a super teensy sleeve or an over cut and tightened sleeve? 2 years post-op, I am surprised you lived to type a gosh darn letter on your keyboard or have a breath to even speak type.

You may want to "dump" your surgeon.  Malabsorption will may you skinnier and from the likes of things you are skin and bones.

 


3/30/2005 Lap Band installed  12/20/2010  Lap Band REMOVED  
6/6/2011 Vertical SLEEVE Gastrectomy

ladygodiva1228
on 9/23/15 11:25 am - Putnam, CT
Revision on 02/04/15

Sounds to me that you have an underlying medical condition that has nothing to due with the sleeve. 

The bypass is a bad decision and honestly your doctor is a nutcase to even suggest it.  You don't want to lose more weight which will happen.

SandieMc49
on 9/23/15 12:27 pm

There's a lot of very VERY important information missing in your post as this makes no sense whatsoever.  I haven't read anything on this site that has freaked me out as much as this!  Please clarify somebody!

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