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Topic: RE: Lap RNY Reversal?
Chris:
I live in Santa Cruz and attend Stanford. Dr. John Morton is a premier expert in bariatrics and is Blue Shield's advisor. Make an appointment and talk with him. He has an expert staff.
I had my surgery done in San Bernardino, Dr. Douglas Krahn. While in his waiting room, I met several reversals and repair patients who were crazy about him and he saved their lives. You can boot up his in of on my profile.
Below is Stanfords webpage. Or email Dr. Morton [email protected]
He is very gracious and will email back. Give him a few days. Tell him Barb sent you.
http://www.stanfordhospital.com/clinicsmedServices/COE/surgical/bariatricSurgery/bariatricSurgeryIndex.html
Topic: RE: Hiatial Hernia & Two Ulcers - Pre-Op Question?
No one said it is REQUIRED - a surgeon decides what they're capable of handling or not.
It depends on a person's anatomy and location of the hernia, which is different for different people.
TYPICALLY it is an impediment to laproscopy. Again, it depends on what the surgeon is comfortable with.
Topic: RE: Hiatial Hernia & Two Ulcers - Pre-Op Question?
It is simply not true that a Hiatial Hernia will require an open surgery to get repaired. I had an undiagnoised hiatial hernia that was discovered during my lap RNY. They repaired that hernia and went on with the RNY. Zero complications from that surgery and I was home in 18 hours.
Topic: RE: everyone is not a lapaband success story!!!!
I know how you feel! I was banded on Oct 17 05. I got the hunger back and fell back into the wrong eating behaviors and gained some of the pre op diet weight back. I was ready to chalk it up to failure and give up but then 2 weeks ago I got a proper fill. If I read right you have had 2 fills with a total of 1 cc? I have 3 cc's in now and I have gained until I got filled properly. I told my surgon that I felt like I never had surgery too! I was at the point where I envy those who had PB and vomit problem. I just wanted to feel SOMETHING! I had 2cc's and felt no restriction at all and was very discouraged so he then pushed in another 2cc's and that closed my stoma shut and couldn't even keep down my saliva! So then he took out 1 cc so I am just now getting the proper restriction. Now it is working. Try and get a real aggressive fill to see how that works for you. Don't give up just yet....
YOU are not failing your surgery -IT just isn't working for YOU yet. By the way I am not excersizing all that much either. If I was good at that maybe I wouldn't have needed the band. We are not perfect and shouldn't kill ourselves trying to be.
BTW -YOU are not bringing your doc's sucess rate down HE is by not getting you restricted properly. If he is making you feel embarassed don't be afraid to stick up for yourself and let him know if he was doing HIS part it wouldn't be nearly so hard for you. Tell him exactly what you want. You want to be properly filled so you can go on that vacation and feel awsome. You are not just padding his wallet to have HIM dissapointed it YOU. He works for you sister!
I hope you get some restriction soon. Then you can determine whether or not band is working for you. Like I said I just got restriction 2 weeks ago and am loosing weight post op for the first time. (15lbs by the way!)
It gets better ~HUGS~
-Angie
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