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Hey Bob. I didn't know you had a distal done. What revision did you have?

The Ds has been around for quite some time, but it is not the standard. The DS is a much harder surgery to perform, so less surgeons learn it. Many RNY patients have revision to the DS after regain, or to correct complications like I'm having.

Don't wory about the cards. This happened to me last year. Pissed the hell out of me, but it's an easy fix.

Yehuda

Wow sorry to hear about your Credit card,

Yes the DS is/was available then. It's been aviailable for about 20 years, although it existed in other forms for a lot longer then that. At one time it was considered the surgery of last resorts, but now it's become the surgery of choice for many surgeons who at one time performed all 3 (band, RNY, DS) surgeries because of it's long term success for those who have it. The surgery can be tailored for people with less weight to lose, or for those who have to lose more weight. For instance, I had to lose 300 lbs, my surgeon gave me a very short common channel to make sure I accomplished it.

Scott

 I had a revision RNY on 01-21-05 because I had a staple line disruption in my original RNY.  When 18 months had passed after my original RNY, I had complained to my surgeon that I seemed to be gaining weight.  He said that was the normal bounce-back of 20% of the lost weight--Yeah, that's what he told me.  He also said I didn't need to see him anymore and he considered me to be a success.  I think my lowest post-op weight had been 337 and I was around 350 when I last saw him.  Since he didn't check me at that time, I don't know if the disruption had already occured.  I became aware of the staple line disruption in the summer of 2004.  My primary had concerns about me and had some sort of scope done.  The doctor who did it noted that I had a staple line disruption in the RNY;  he said it was as if I had never had the surgery.  It took me the rest of the Summer to find a surgeon who would do the revision.  Generally, they don't mind doing the revision if they did the original surgery.  My problem was that my surgeon no longer accepted my health ins.  I eventually found 2 hospitals in Philly that would do it and went with the U of Penn.

I just have a brief note about my credit card.  I called the fraud dept at Chase and they listed a one dollar charge on my card from Fri.  I knew I hadn't made that charge and found that my wife ( who is listed as a secondary holder ) didn't either.  We contacted Chase and they had us destroy the card and will get us a new card with new numbers by Tues.  I have to notify the companies that bill us directly on that card.  My wife will do that and she said that only applies to 2 companies.  Everyone else bills on her American Express card.  Chase gave us further instructions regarding the fraud.  It could have been a lot worse.  They said this is rather common and involves people submitting a low charge just to see if it goes through.  If it does, then they make the big charge.  I'm a bit annoyed since that's been my only Visa number for about 20 years and I know it as well as I know my SSN.  That's a minor complaint.