need help reading my final surgery report

Hi,

Jus has the DS on 1.31.13...I go home tomorrow. I was given a report, but do not understand it all. I was thinking maybe some of you would know what the following means:

Alemntary Limb 280 cm with

120 cm of Common Channel

Biliopancreatic Limb 400 cm

Thank for your help.

The part of the intestine that carries the food from the stomach is the alemntary limb.

The biliopancreatic limb is the part that carries pancreatic juices and bile.

From the point where the two of those meet to the large intestine is the common channel.

The numbers are the new lengths.  It used to be one long piece.

http://www.dsfacts.com/duodenal-switch-procedure.html

do you know if those numbers are conducive to losing weight?

It is all relative.  My alemntary is 150 cm and the CC is 100.  But I may not have started out with a small intestine as long as yours, either.  Plus, no one's stomach is the same length, either.  There are too many variables and not one correct answer.

Also, we must remember that the goal here is not to induce the greatest weight loss in the quickest amount of time.  You will lose, but then you need to live the remainder of your life with much shorter intestine with which to receive nutrition than God intended.  

I'm sure there are been studies, but I can't imagine that there's much difference in weight loss maintained between a 100 cm CC and a 150 cm CC.

Looks pretty average to me for a DS.

Alimentary Limb is where the food comes down from your stomach. 

Biliopancreatic Limb is where the bile come down,

the Common Channel is where the 2 (alimentary and biliopancreatic) come together. 

The common channel is where bile and food come together and where fat, and other stuff then gets absorbed.

This is kind of simplistic but basically how it works.

So consider yourself average DS.

Congratulations!