fail fail...

I came across this board and all im seeing is "i failed" "am i failing" "im a failure" Although the pain of having to through wls a second time would be awful! No one here is a failure, all of our bodies are different. I dont want to see anyone saying they are failing wls is not an exam at the end of the school year it is not a pass or fail thing.

You are SO wrong!!! Some of us do fail because our surgeries fail. I lost a great deal of weight with my initial RNY but then started regaining weight. My surgeon said I was considered a success because of the percentage of my regained weight. I thought something was wrong. I was right and he was wrong but I didn't find that out until I went in for an endoscopy a couple years later and found that I had a staple line disruption. I'll never know how long I had it, but it was like never having had the WLS. I was able to have a revision on 01-21-05 but had trouble finding a different surgeon to do it. I would have had no problem having the original surgeon do it but he no longer accepted my ins. And, I found that most surgeons do not want to do revisions if they did not do the original. I was lucky to find Dr. Rapier in Philly to do my 2nd RNY.

After writing my first response to your post, I realized that you were protesting people who claimed that THEY were failures as opposed to WLS FAILURES. I do agree with you on that. And, knowing when to question whether your surgery has been a success can be difficult. When I first had an RNY, one of the men I looked to for support told me that he lost very little weight during his 1st 6 mos following his surgery and then lost almost 200 lbs in the next 12 mos. But, if you find you are gaining weight after a year and you are doing everything right, then I suggest you get an endoscope to make sure that there is nothing wrong with your surgery.