Has anyone got any experience with Sclerotherapy injections?

I'm exploring revision options right now to try to restore some semblance of the tool I once had.. I'm almost 18 years post op.. I've regained about 65# from my longest maintained lowest weight (about two years).

I've tried the pouch re-sets, and tried them again. And again. Each time I fail because my hunger is pretty profound and I feel like it's pretty obvious my stoma has stretched to a point where it's not limiting my intake or helping me feel sated.

Anyway, I've read some pretty interesting research results in medical journals but I'm short on "real-life" experience.

Anyone?

Thanks,

Stephanie

I am sorry, I thought that was only to treat hemorrhoids, or to shut down spider and varicose veins. I think this is a learning opportunity for all. Can you reference the medical journals that you were reading to better understand how injecting a sclerosant or irritant helps?

Thankyou

I had RNY in 2007 and today I am my goal weight of 136 pounds. I have had regains and lost it again several times.

Revisions do not help anyone to lose their excess weight. The normal experience is to go on a pre-op liquid diet, then a liquid diet after the revision. That results in about a 20 pound loss. Once people go back to solid food, the weight loss stops.

There is a way to lose the excess weight and to keep it off. It is eating less calories than you burn. My personal way is with Weigh****chers. It takes time and work, but it can be done.

Is it the procedure that's endoscopic where they burn your stoma that results in scar tissue to reduce the size?

If so, I had it yesterday. My original rny was may 5, 2009. Highest weight 268 lowest weight was 135. I'm at 216 this morning. I pray this helps. I feel like crap. Depressed, sad and fat. I'll have 2 more procedures each 6 weeks apart followed by a full liquid diet.

The only way to lose weight and keep it off is to eat less than you burn. The procedure will not help much because, when you had your first surgery your stomach was about the size of two litter bottle of soda. It was reduced down to the size of an egg or even smaller. So you had little hunger and it took a tiny amount to fill you up.

Now you are starting with a stomach the size of an egg and it is being reduced by a tiny amount. It will not make much difference in how you eat after you heal up from all of the trauma of what they are doing to you.

But you learned how to put enough food into that tiny stomach to get up to 216 pounds. That is easy to do. Just eat smaller amounts more often. The difference between 136 and 216 is 810 calories a day. A stop at McDonald's or a nice dessert. Most women eat close to 2000 calories a day and weigh close to 200.

I found the greatest help and support with Weigh****chers and it took years. The best thing you can do for yourself is learn how to eat less and love and enjoy what you do eat. It is a journey will so many rewards once you decide to go for it.