Laporscopic Explatory Surgery

I am two years out still with feeding tube.  My Bariatirc surgeon wants to do explatory laporscopic surgery on me because I do not want a reversal.   Has anybody had the explatory laporacopic surgery and what came out of it?

I have not had it, but some have. And the reason would be? Pain? Nausea? Vomiting?

I know he's seen an eroded ring, but ask if he has seen a "flipping ring".

"What the heck is she talking about?"

A surgeon drew a pic for me. One of my friends had vomiting for 7 yrs after her Fobi type RNY. But her ring had not eroded. WHAT?

Apparently, the ring can sit in the correct position for all UGI, scopes, any other tests, but when eating, it flips from horizontal to nearly vertical, thereby closing off the stoma. But then it flops back down into position, invisible to diagnosis.

In her case, she revised to DS, stopped vomiting, got down to ideal wt and is happy as can be.

BTW, her original surgeon would not see any of his surgical "problems", even tho the fix would've been fairly easy if tackled early on.

They took the fobi ring off of me November 2007 from the first onset of eating issues. I felt good one day and then down hill since then. But I would like to know if anybody else has had explatory surgery and what the outcome was.

I must know 100 of them, but they're not here. The problem was SBO, or small bowel obstruction. There are now a lot of studies out there showing the 3 or 4 main types we can get. In other words, test toward "these".

Go here and ask the question. Most of us are many years out.

Many have had SBO, so have had exploratory surgeries. That was before the cause of SBO was so widely reported.

Hopefully, they are still tuned in.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG

i've had the scope done for exploratory surgery. They way my surgeon ordered it, it wasn't to bad!! I was put under a light anesthetic, and took me 24hrs to get back up to my regular routines!!! 

I had my RNY in Oct 2008 and in Jan 2009 started having pain.  I felt like my insides were being eaten away - swore I had an ulcer but after 2 EGD's, CT scan, ultrasound, Upper GI, colonoscopy, MRI, reflux testing - they found absolutely nothing.  The pain radiated throughout my entire abdomen and at times was so severe I couldn't stand it.  I couldn't sleep and made eating really tough.  After 5 months, I finally had exploratory surgery in May of 2009.  Well, I had severe adhesions in 4 areas of my stomach - new pouch, blind pouch, 2 areas of intestines.  The adhessions were so bad that they caused my bowels to kink up and there was a 1 inch hole in my intestine. Luckily they caught the hole in time - if left longer would have become a full fledged hernia.  Afterwards, the pain was completely gone and I am still pain free.

  I was having little aches on my lower left side for months but it just felt more like a kidney infection type feeling and it didn't HURT, and it would just come and go randomly for a second or two each time.
I also started having a 'lump in the throat' feeling that kept getting worse, even though I could still breathe and swallow fine, it just always felt like I had a golf ball in there that I needed to swallow to clear my throat.
I finally went to my surgeon and they did a CAT scan and he figured I had an internal hernia so we scheduled outpatient surgery to take care of it.
I ended up spending 4 days in the hospital because it turned out that I had scar tissue AGAIN on the exit hole of my stomach, AND my small intestine below my stomach exit was swollen to the size of an apple, blocked with food!
So they had to take care of both of those issues at once.
Now I'm having the same symptoms 2 weeks later and I think it's doing it again!
I'm constipated (going on 5-6 days now), smelly gas, the small aches in my stomach pouch area are back again (lower left side), and the lump in my throat feeling is back.
I do NOT want to have surgery AGAIN, but I'm guessing I probably will.

My advice is to see your surgeon ASAP and insist on at least a CAT scan or ultrasound and they can do 'exploratory' surgery like my surgeon did (and look what he found!).  Because there is SOMETHING wrong and they need to look in there and fix it before it's too late!