Giving up on my Revision

Latinasol,

YOU are NOT a failure!!  The revision surgery failed you!  With the exception of one certain doctor's patients who use these boards as free advertising for their doctor, everyone else who has had their RNY revised to make their common channel shorter has not found great success with it.   

I have been reading these boards for over two years now and have not seen the RNY to distal or ERNY revision work for anyone who has more than 50 lbs to lose.   And, even that degree of weight loss was for people who had their common channels made 75 cm or shorter!  

One woman with the 50 cm common channel lost more weight than she wanted, is fighting to keep her weight ON and has been sick for over a year.  

Another woman with a 75 cm common channel says she has lost 120 lbs (but it might be questionable since she is confused much of the time and she is part of a doctor's advertising posse on here that lies and exaggerates to procure more business for said doctor).  She also mentioned in previous postings shortly after her ERNY revision, that the doctor told her she was never bypassed much during her original RNY, so her revision was more like a VIRGIN surgery, which explains why she has lost more than the others.  She was still SMO even after her original RNY.

It would be advisable for anyone considering a revision from an RNY to something else to read back on these forums and see what the threads say, note the details and not just base such an important decision on what someone is telling them "right now" on any given forum.   Investigate what that same person said several months ago, find out how reliable they are, read their profile, etc.  

Don't even listen to what your surgeon says, unless your surgeon REALLY, TRULY does do ALL of the available surgeries (and even then, get a second opinion).   Don't let the doctor do the "bait & switch" on you, where they get you into the office by telling you that they do "all surgeries" and then convince you that only the revision which they actually do is the "best" choice for you.  

And, don't let the insurance company dictate what is best for you.  The insurance company won't want to pay again when whatever surgery they paid for stops working for you at 4 years out.  Nor will it be their stomach which needs to get cut open again!

Think twice (or three times) and cut ONCE!   Why let everyone else make your decision for you?  It's your body.    Instead of thinking about the "best case scenario" - think about the worst!  What are your options if the surgery fails you?   What will you do then?  What's  plan "B"?   It may sound pessimistic, but everyone thinks  "best case scenario" whenever they start a new diet and NONE of those ever worked!!   That's not a paradigm that works.