Revision from RNY to DS

Hey Robin😃 

So tell me more.... Your revising from RNY to DS? You live in New York? How much weight did you lose and gain back? Yes I have heard of dr. Rosalin I had a seminar set up but I didn't follow through. Plus I had a baby 15 months after the bypass and then I went on birth control wish is making me gain weight even faster.

RNY 1999 SW 403. Lowest 163 at 2 yrs. After panniectomy. Regained starting 7 yrs out now 303, lots of reasons and disappointed but it is what it is. Definitely go to a seminar really helpful and informative. I was 35 done having babies. Had hysterectomy, early menopause depression, injuries from over exercising and poor choices all combined. Now I have huge hernia and weight is killing my feet. My plan is to live to be 100 so this is going to help me.

Hey Robin 

I also suffer from depression, I'm an emotional eater. I'm very lonely at times and I'm a single mom raising a child by myself. Sometimes I wonder if a revision would help me. It's just so hard at times. I wish you all the best with ur revision💃👍😀

 

 

I am doing research on RNY TO DS revision. I noticed that you are from Leominster, ma. I also live in MA. Did you end up going to Dr. Roslin? Would you be willing to share your experiences?

I had a revision from RNY (traditional staple line across the stomach/no transection) to DS. My RNY intially was in 1999, my revision was in 2009. I went from 430 to 210 with my RNY and from 302 to 156 with my revision. My surgeon was Dr. David Greenbaum. I had a LOT of post operative complications. Here is a rundown.

1. Spent 15 days in CCU. I think. It might have been less, but I don't remember for certain

2. Diagnosed with swelling in part of the reconstruction area of my stomach that caused me not to be able to keep anything, even saliva, down. Two days after my first operation I had to go back into the O.R. for a second operation to repair the area.

3. Moved to a regular room and supposed to leave a couple days later only to have a build up of serosanquenous fluid in my incision which necessitated opening of my incision in two places. 

4. Sent home about 3 weeks later on IV antibiotics and home heath care for the open wound.

5. 3 days later picc line gets infected and I develop a blood clot in my arm from the picc line. Back to the hospital.

6. In hospital for another week. Picc line pulled, blood thinners for clot given. Jugular cath installed.

7 Home for another week, when gastric ick started pouring out of my open incision. I had a fistula form apparently. Back to the hospital. 

8. Returned from the hospital with a wound vacuum pump and home health nursing care. 

9. I develop a large abcess where there had been a Jackson pratt drain. Go to local hospital for incising and draining. Get a couple more of them after the initial one. Learn that I now have two fistulas draining gastric ick, but the JP drain one often gets infected because it doesn't always stay open. 

10. Unable to keep anything other than yogurt or pudding down. Anything solid I throw up. Back to the hospital. I have a pyloric stricture.

11. I'm put on TPN. 

12. Month later I develop sepsis from the jugular cath  and TPN. 

13. Juglar cath removed and a groshong cath is put into my subclavian vein. I am on TPN for a total of a year. 3 months the first time then 9 months the second time.

14. Still draining from the opening in my stomach after a year. I meet with a specialist who says I might lose my whole stomach. I'm tired of fighting so agree to the surgery. 

15. What was found inside was not found on any scans. I have many internal fistulas that have caused liver issues and internal abcess. I had a lot of other fistulas internally as well. 

16. It took another large operation to make everything right. I lost most of my stomach and my pyloric valve. Thankfully my intestinal part is fine. It took about two years of recovery to get to the point of feeling normal. 

Revisions must be done by vetted reveision sugeons and even when things seem perfect throubles can happen. 

 

 

Hey Renfairewench😒

All of this information is making me scared. I have a 17 month old baby and I don't want anything to happen to me with this revision that's why I'm gonna take year and get a lot of information and research. Bcuz this my life and I'm only 29 yrs old. I don't wanna mess up my young life but I don't wanna be over weight either. Oh man this is tough😞

I'm glad your doing better.....god is good you have been through a lot.

Even under the best of cir****tances and with one of the best surgeons I know bad things can happen. I'm an anomoly. Trust me. I know several who have gone through revisions from vetted surgeons who have never had any issues at all. Don't take what I said to be gospel. It happened to me. Does not mean it will happen to you and likely it won't. FOr whatever reason my body just didn't like the revision. DOn't know why, it just didn't. Ask any of the old timers here. I worked very hard to keep a positive life view that things would resolve on their own. It took me a year and a half to finally say enough. I didn't want to have another operation, but I had to because it never looked like the issues I was having were going to resolve on their own. Alos, you have age on your side too. I was 49 when I had my revision. Things happen, but they don't happen to everyone. You just have to know that even in the best cir****tances **** can happen and when it does it's really all how you look at it. It was pot hole after pot hole for me, but I tried hard to keep a good view and to stay positive. More than likely what happened, even ONE thing happeneing to you probably won't. Like I said, my body just didn't like it. As for the operation to fix everything? I had no issues at all save for a small gastric leak that healed itself after 2 weeks.  Just make certain you use a surgeon who is vetted and is one who does revisions. That's what's important.

 

I'm gonna take my time and do a lot of research so far Dr. Rosalin is number one on my list a lot of ppl had revisions done with him he specializes in revision surgery.

Sorry for all your problems. I am usually a great healer after surgery but I do expect a higher risk. Plan for 10 days in hospital I hope you are healthy now and you don't regret the switch, just the sucky complications