Hi, I'm Cindy and have been blessed with this surgery almost 13 yrs ago. It's been a relatively good recovery and I've lost the weight I wanted to and maintained these years until a year ago. My esophageal sphincter started closing off. Drs do not know why. I've had two endoscopies to open it up but they did not work. Unless I eat my food now almost in pablum form and super slowly I will throw it up. This happens on an average of 3-4 times a week. Some days it's good if I stick to really slow eating and semi-liquid form, other days no matter what I do, it comes up every meal. Luckily my dentist says it has not harmed my teeth because the food gets stuck before it enters my stomach and therefore the gastric juices have not gotten to the food yet. I am always in pain after eating and it's getting really old, but I don't have the "good insurance" anymore that I had years ago. It would be considered "elective" and not covered. I am now working on getting approval for a 'necessary' reversal, but 1)am scared to death that if I do get this I will gain the weight back, 2)if I don't have this done, how long can I go on living this way. I'm not a young woman anymore (62) and this is quite taxing on my body and quite frankly I'm so tired of throwing up all day.

Sorry for venting but I cannot talk to anyone about this that doesn't understand bariatric surgery. I panic if I leave my house without my Mylanta or Tums/Rolaids. I am just wondering if anyone has heard of this happening so far out of surgery and if so/what their story is.

Thanks!

Cindy

So what happened?  Are you ok now? 

So what happened? Was it a stricture and he fixed it? That's happened to me a couple of times. How are you doing?

Hi, I was hoping someone here would have an idea of what may be happening or any testing I could have done. I am 20 years old and last year I had roux-n-y and hiatal hernia fix with my highest weight at 299. I had intense pain in my epigastreum especially when I ate for an entire month right after the surgery and lost 40lbs till my doctor did a upper GI swallow study which showed a Mesocolic stricture. He fixed the stricture and did a cholecystectomy which was full of small stones then nearly everything was perfect. I have had increasing pelvic pain every month and the occasional painful stomach again when I eat. I also have developed orthostatic hypotension which I practically had to beg to be put on something and am now on fludrocortisone and have nearly no symptoms of I take it every day. The most current problem and the one worrying me is that a month ago I had some awful bronchitis with hypoxia then put on steroids for a week which cleared it all up but since then I have been having again the intense epigastric pain that waxes and wanes but especially bad whenever I try to eat. I have had two ct chest/abd which only showed an ovarian cyst then the rupture of the ovarian cyst, a normal endoscopy of my pouch, another upper GI which was normal, a UA which showed that I was dehydrated and had ketones, and my blood work showed elevated chlorine, high absolute lymphocytes, high absolute monocytes, low total protein and low albumin. My surgeon admitted me to the hospital for four days and they were only able to finally document the postparandial hypoglycemia that I had been telling him about. Neither of us want to do surgery again but he says that if I continue to lose so much weight so quickly (I lost 7% of my body right in three weeks) then he will go in and put in a g tube. I am barely a year out and I would very much like to avoid a g tube so if anyone has any ideas about what this may be I would really appreciate it!

Your story mirrors mine....I am sitting here now in my bariatric dr's office with another hernia. I've had two hernias rupture and emergency surgery in 2007 and 2009. Now with mesh holding stomach/intestines together, I sit here back to original weight(which is humiliating)wondering what now? I am worried about my mortality and I have 2 kids who need me. My surgery was 2001 and thru 2 pregnancies and 6 years all was great. I was slim and even lost quickly after pregnancies.  Life was great!!!! Then all hell broke loose on my health. Ruptures, surgeries and gaining all weight back at rapid pace. I avoid people at all costs cause I'm so humiliated by way I look. This is the most terrible depressing thing to live with.... I try to think positively cause I am thankful I'm still alive but it gets hard to fight. I know what you r going thru!