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Topic: RE: 7 months out frome RNY reversal
it can, but you have to find a doctor willing to do it. They will also only do it, if it appears the complications are serious.
Topic: RE: 7 months out frome RNY reversal
Thank you I am currently at 144 lbs now and feeling very good.
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on 6/28/10 12:01 pm
on 6/28/10 12:01 pm
Topic: RE: 7 months out frome RNY reversal
I think you have no idea how your body works, or what the doctors have done to you. Between the original surgery and when you had the "emergency reversal" you went from 237 to 173. That is that is 63 pounds in 5 months. Not that dramatic. What did you think was going to happen? Quit trying to scare people. Also, there is more to the RNY than stomach restriction. You have had your intestines rearranged. Are you saying they changed all that back? You have not stated you problem clearly, and you don't make sense in what they did to make you right.
Topic: RE: Crossing Over to Transfer Addictions
I have recently confronted my new addiction and am taking things very slowly, but progressing. I am on a moderation program to slowly wean me from the alcohol. I am keeping a diary of sorts of my thoughts and feelings, whether good or bad. I needed to find this group though, because I'll be honest, I tried AA and it wasn't for me. I have been raised in a traditional Southern home as a child and to me AA felt more like a dictatorship and I was not in near the condition some of these people had been. It really scared me.
Hope to hear from someone soon. Have a blessed day.
Hope to hear from someone soon. Have a blessed day.
Topic: RE: 7 months out frome RNY reversal
Would you say that you got in a good habit in that time you had your RNY?? Would you you say that you lost the extra pounds and now exercising is easier? IS that why you still lose and maintain your new weight??
Topic: Dr. Mario Alberto Almanza-Reyes
I was just posting this because I've had more people than I thought, write me and let me know how much their sorry and how they are praying. My momma is one of the nicest people out there, I wish that we can individually meet each and every person on this website that are planning on going to Dr. Almanza. I wish I could take you guys through a normal day in my life now that everything has messed up in my life. Going through my last summer as a high school student. I can't have fun... I won't have fun. I want justice to be served!!! I want to save someone's life. Please this is NO JOKE!! I wake up everyday and I think and pray about anybody who's in or going into surgery with Dr. Almanza... I pray for you guys. I don't even know you guys. My mom has been in ICU on a ventilator for 7 days now... my best friend... I can't go see her whenever I want to anymore... visiting hours are precise. My mom won't be able to see the 17th Anniversary of me arriving in this world, because she's too busy going through something that shouldn't have ever happened!!! DOCTORS MAKE MISTAKES... BUT WHAT KIND OF DOCTOR MAKES MISTAKES OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.. Yes, you might have had a WONDERFUL experience... but listen to the stories people.. just because you were lucky DOES NOT mean that everybody else was. There are many people around the United States and Canada that are dealing with their friends and/or family members DYING with deadly infections, holes in stomachs, esophagus, etc. You guys keep telling your friends to go.... and eventually, you are going to go through what me and my family and plenty other families are going through right now. I'm not trying to harsh Dr. Almanza's "mellow".... I am truly, honestly, and dedicative to preventing as many people from going to this doctor as possible. Please spend the extra money and getting done by someone who is, not only cheap and kind, but dedicated to helping you. Not a doctor who is just going to WHAM BAM over and never see you post-op (to many people). Please PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE..... I am not doing this to get back at Dr. Almanza or anybody that is working over there just because they've done this to my momma. I am doing this to prevent YOU from ever going through something like this. It IS NOT FUN.
Love always and forever,
Miranda
Love always and forever,
Miranda
Topic: RE: Anybody Out There In The Same Boat??? Help!
I had my surgery reversed 10/09. It was also an emergency surgery. I had JUST found my wonderful new WLS, and he was having me try some things to gain weight and stop throwing up, when I went from bad to worse. I was so weak that I couldn't hold my head up.
I went through A LOT of what you did. I almost lost my job, if the reversal hadn't have fixed it, I was going to be gone... I had no FMLA left when I went out on disability, so I was just lucky my job was there when I returned to work. I still worry when I ask off for anything because of the vibe I get. My health took a toll on my marriage, and I am not getting a divorce. I was so depressed that I ended up wanting to commit suicide. I went from 119lbs to 158 lbs in five months.
I can tell you from experience that the weight gain is from 1. Depression. 2. The freedom to be able to eat anything that you want again. I was always an emotional eater, but have you ever watched a person dying from starvation eat when they get the chance... I ate all the time... and ANYTHING that I could get my hands on.
People started telling me that I was getting fat. Man... I did not want to hear those dreaded words again.
I am still struggling with the issue... What you have is an addiction. I was addicted to food before my WLS. After I had that done, I just got depressed and didn't handle it at all. As soon as I had my WLS reversed, I was back to the food addiction. I realized that I had to stop that, so it went to a sex addiction. I realized that, so it went to a spending money addiction. I realized that, so NOW I AM GETTING THERAPY.
I wish that I had a quick fix for you, but unfortunately, I don't. I am here if you ever need to talk. You can always PM me, but when you gain that much weight, that fast, you need professional help. You have to find a way to deal with your stress/depression. I don't know anything about what you are going through, but I do know this from experience.
I hope that helped some.
-Kim T
I went through A LOT of what you did. I almost lost my job, if the reversal hadn't have fixed it, I was going to be gone... I had no FMLA left when I went out on disability, so I was just lucky my job was there when I returned to work. I still worry when I ask off for anything because of the vibe I get. My health took a toll on my marriage, and I am not getting a divorce. I was so depressed that I ended up wanting to commit suicide. I went from 119lbs to 158 lbs in five months.
I can tell you from experience that the weight gain is from 1. Depression. 2. The freedom to be able to eat anything that you want again. I was always an emotional eater, but have you ever watched a person dying from starvation eat when they get the chance... I ate all the time... and ANYTHING that I could get my hands on.
People started telling me that I was getting fat. Man... I did not want to hear those dreaded words again.
I am still struggling with the issue... What you have is an addiction. I was addicted to food before my WLS. After I had that done, I just got depressed and didn't handle it at all. As soon as I had my WLS reversed, I was back to the food addiction. I realized that I had to stop that, so it went to a sex addiction. I realized that, so it went to a spending money addiction. I realized that, so NOW I AM GETTING THERAPY.
I wish that I had a quick fix for you, but unfortunately, I don't. I am here if you ever need to talk. You can always PM me, but when you gain that much weight, that fast, you need professional help. You have to find a way to deal with your stress/depression. I don't know anything about what you are going through, but I do know this from experience.
I hope that helped some.
-Kim T
Topic: RE: Has Anyone Had There Surgery Reversed?
Hi,
You have made an extremely excellent point! You said, "people sometimes lose their minds over good marketing", and you couldn't be more right. As having been heavy, thin, now heavy again, I know exactly what you mean in this specific incidence. People like me have tried so many times with so many methods to lose weight and we fail so many times. It's not just the methods. There's so, so much more than that. But, when you see a doctor standing there with the "answer" to all our problems with one surgery that will work, we see the solution, but are so desperate at this point, we are willing to skim over the fine print & complications including the ones that say 'possible death". We don't think it can possibly happen to us or any of the complications. I certainly didn't. And wow, did I get hit hard with reality. Everything you've written in your message is true down to the "T". I wish you and your girlfriend the best in whatever decision you both come to. Either way, keep on with the support.
Melinda
You have made an extremely excellent point! You said, "people sometimes lose their minds over good marketing", and you couldn't be more right. As having been heavy, thin, now heavy again, I know exactly what you mean in this specific incidence. People like me have tried so many times with so many methods to lose weight and we fail so many times. It's not just the methods. There's so, so much more than that. But, when you see a doctor standing there with the "answer" to all our problems with one surgery that will work, we see the solution, but are so desperate at this point, we are willing to skim over the fine print & complications including the ones that say 'possible death". We don't think it can possibly happen to us or any of the complications. I certainly didn't. And wow, did I get hit hard with reality. Everything you've written in your message is true down to the "T". I wish you and your girlfriend the best in whatever decision you both come to. Either way, keep on with the support.
Melinda
Topic: RE: Has Anyone Had There Surgery Reversed?
I had to have an emergency bypass reversal to save my life. After ten complication surgeries and three years of daily nausea, abdominal pain, and the psychological pain, what began as a last resort decision and the best decision at the time, has turned out to be one of the worst decisions of my life. The consequences have been tremendous. Before anyone makes this decision, they really need to think loooonnnnnggggg and hard about the potential outcomes.
Topic: RE: 7 months out frome RNY reversal
I am so sorry you suffered through all of that! I can honestly empathize with you. When I had my bypass, I lived with nausea everyday and some pain thrown in here and there, not to mention the many complication surgeries until it nearly cost me my life. I was so out of it at the time, I was taken into the OR and they performed the emergency reversal. Since then, things have only gotten worse and the weight has come back. It has been a complete spiral downward. I, like your doctor, am shocked that your weight has continued to go down, but I'm elated for you too. I was exactly at your weight and am again at that weight. It took only 12 months to get back to 237. I am broken. The docs that told you that it was "all in your head"... I can't believe that. My father is a physician and he was so frustrated with my original surgeon that he couldn't believe the lack of compassion or caring.
I'm just so glad that you are ok and that you are recovering and so thankful that your weight has continued to go down and not back up.
Best wishes to you,
Melinda
I'm just so glad that you are ok and that you are recovering and so thankful that your weight has continued to go down and not back up.
Best wishes to you,
Melinda
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