Please help this Greenbaum patient: RNY to ERNY
I am still around. Roslin wont touch me, greenbaum wont do the ds ( kind of happy cuz i am starting to feel like he lost his confidence after what happened to Maddie. I admire him for how much he cares for his patience. He has been doing the revision to erny on many old rny that he feels the revision to ds would be much to dangerous, in his opinion. They are doing really well but i guess time will tell.
I did go to cali this summer. I am Still undecided.
I think about u alot. I pray that you get the ds soon. I know how you have been worki g for it.
I going to continue to lurk cuz i really dont have much to say. I want to shake those on the revision board that are getting the rny or the newbies that r doing the rny on a virgin stomach. I want to tell them what will happen to them if they fast forward 10 years. But they wont listen anyway so why bother. I am going to leave it up to diana ( cox) She is much better at it then i am.
Hi
My name is Gina also from Brooklyn, also had my sugrgery in 06. I had a micropouch wth Dr Sapala. I saw Roslin last week, he said he dont know if it can be done, Just went for UGI yesterday, I cant wait ti hear from him. I was wondering why Roslin wont touch you? Also at everyones suggestion on the DS forum, I spoke to Dr K in Cali and he said he does not see why Roslin said he may not be able to do it. If you can travel, call him, its worth a shot.
RNY 1/26/06
SW 345
Revised to DS 4/23/12
SW 268
Randy,
Good to see you are still around!!!!
-Jamie
RNY 2/26/2002 DS 12/29/2011
HW 317 SW 263 BMI 45.1
SW 298 CW 192 BMI 32.9~60% EWL
LW 151 in 2003
TT 4/9/2003
Normal BMI 24.8 is my GOAL!!!
GBP (RNY) 2/26/02 298 lbs, TT 4/9/03 151 lbs, DS 12/29/11
HW 317 SW 263 BMI 45.1/CW 192 BMI 32.9/GW 145 ~ Normal BMI 24.8
**Revision Journey started 3/2009 Approved 12/12/11**
But what I can't understand is, why oh why, would ANYONE want a pouch if they've been approved for a DS? Of course, you have to understand I'm speaking from personal experience here. I don't want to offend anyone.
Lynda
A 37-year-old female enrollee has requested bariatric revision surgery (duodenal switch) for treatment of her obesity. Findings: The physician reviewer found that the medical literature supports the opinion that the performance of a revisional procedure similar to the initial operation will fail in many instances, because the basic problem is metabolic and not mechanical. Rapid gastric emptying, as seen in this patient's case, leads to an enhanced insulin response resulting in either hypoglycemia or hyperglycemic episodes, and the most dramatic rises and falls have been associated with small pouches and wide anastomoses. Duodenal switch is a medically appropriate solution to the problem. If this procedure is not performed, the patient's comorbididites will likely worsen. Thus, bariatric revision surgery (duodenal switch) is medically indicated for this patient.
As I said before I really do hope it works for you, but if studies show differently I would want to know that. I've done pretty good with my revision to ds after my revision to distal that I only lost 36 pounds from. I can't help but wonder if he stopped doing them after the last death that he had revising from rny to ds. It seems like shortly after the death he stopped doing them.