Good morning everyone….I am new to the list so forgive me if I babble on. My name is Jenn and I live and work in Central MA. I had gastric bypass surgery 9 years ago (in 9/99) with Dr. Bruce Thayer at Newton Wellesley Hospital (now retired). I recently learned through a visit with Dr. Sheila Partridge that I have a “mechanical failure”: a gasogastric fistula. I had been neglectful about going to the program for yearly follow ups. In fact, I hadn’t been there for 6 years. I had a weight gain of around 50 lbs. within the past couple of years so I decided, on a whim really, to see if it could be attributed to the bypass or was it just that I liked ice cream and hated exercise J. I’m scheduled for a gastric bypass revision on 10/30 and I’m a wreck. There is a higher complication rate, it is a more difficult surgery, I don’t know this surgeon from Adam and I’m afraid that it is going to fail again. At my initial surgery, I weighed 260, I went as low as 134 but pretty much stayed around 150, and now I’m back to 190.
I’d really love to hear from anyone else who has had this complication or for people with experience with Dr. Partridge. I can’t believe I have to go through all of this again. I feel like a failure though they can’t exactly pinpoint why I have this fistula.
Thanks for listening,
Jenn
