Need to see surgeon soon.

Hi All, I had an EGD done on Thursday with a Gastroenterologist here in Tucson. He has alot of experience with bypass patients. He told me that the opening from the esophagus to my pouch is too big. Does anyone have and reasons why this happens? Was this a failure of the surgeon or in how my body stretched? I have always been able to eat more than anyone that I know that has had this surgery. I am just about 2 years out. I did lose 100 lbs, but am starting to gain again. I can eat mostly like a normal person now. I know it is more than 1-1/2 cups of food. I can recall eating an 8 oz steak, potaoto and vegetable and a slice of bread and just getting the full signal then. I have never really had the full signal very early on when eating. Does anyone have any idea what I can expect to hear from my surgeon's office? They basicially have disowned me and my problems, so I went to the gastro doc without their knowledge with the blessing of my PCP. I am just afraid that they will blow me off again.

From what I have read here on the boards, and the fact that you have never really had the full signal early when eating, I would say your stoma was too big from the beginning. After all, this just didn't happen within the last couple months after sufficient time to stretch the pouch, you noticed it from the beginning. I have read from others here of similar problems of not having adequate satiety early after surgery...I know Sara Margaret from Florida has said similar things of her surgery, expressing doubt that her stoma was made small enough at surgery time. I have read that some doctors place a lapband over the RNY in some revisions, to help with the problem of a pouch that is too large. (Yes, I am a lapband patient, but I was going to go with the RNY initially, so I read up on alot of what other RNY patients were going through) I wish you the best!!! Theresa R