VGB - REVERSED/REVISION?
Post Date: 8/22/09 5:40 pm
I had the VGB done in 1988 and reversed i***** I threw up all 8 years - every day - and was miserable. I remember that I lost around 90 lbs. At first, I did not have any problems and then without warning everything I ate made me sick as a dog. I finally got so frustrated that I had the band removed but the G.I. surgeon left the rest the way of the VGB. I am now looking to get a revision? I am not sure what revision I will be getting. I had a EGD and my G.I. doctor said that I had like two openings going into my stomach now. The original opening and the VGB opening. I hope this time out things will be different. I am seeking a Bariatric Surgeon - last time it was just a general surgeon with what I thought to have had a lot of experience with WLS.
I am waiting on a hospital in Kentucky and the Dr. John Husted to be certified a Center of Excellence because, I have primary Medicare and then Medicaid (Spend Down Card). Medicare will only pay if it is a Center of Excellence. From what I have researched Dr. Husted has a lot of Bariatric experience and that is what I want. I hope how soon it happens - I am really pumped up. I have been reading Dr. Garth Davis book regarding WLS. I wish I lived in Houston, TX - I would have my surgery done with the Davis doctors in a heart beat.
I am very excited to have found this website (suggested by Dr. Garth Davis) and hope to hear from you guys soon.
Gia
I had the VGB done in 1988 and reversed i***** I threw up all 8 years - every day - and was miserable. I remember that I lost around 90 lbs. At first, I did not have any problems and then without warning everything I ate made me sick as a dog. I finally got so frustrated that I had the band removed but the G.I. surgeon left the rest the way of the VGB. I am now looking to get a revision? I am not sure what revision I will be getting. I had a EGD and my G.I. doctor said that I had like two openings going into my stomach now. The original opening and the VGB opening. I hope this time out things will be different. I am seeking a Bariatric Surgeon - last time it was just a general surgeon with what I thought to have had a lot of experience with WLS.
I am waiting on a hospital in Kentucky and the Dr. John Husted to be certified a Center of Excellence because, I have primary Medicare and then Medicaid (Spend Down Card). Medicare will only pay if it is a Center of Excellence. From what I have researched Dr. Husted has a lot of Bariatric experience and that is what I want. I hope how soon it happens - I am really pumped up. I have been reading Dr. Garth Davis book regarding WLS. I wish I lived in Houston, TX - I would have my surgery done with the Davis doctors in a heart beat.
I am very excited to have found this website (suggested by Dr. Garth Davis) and hope to hear from you guys soon.
Gia
Hi Gia,
I had a vertical band put on with the RNY, and I am looking to have it reversed. I barf all the time. I hate it! I am looking into a revision to a DS here in NJ. Of course I have to jump through the same hoops I had to do the first time - 6 months of diet, nutritionist visit, psych consult, sleep study, etc. Ugh.
Hope all goes well on your revision journey.
Adele
I had a vertical band put on with the RNY, and I am looking to have it reversed. I barf all the time. I hate it! I am looking into a revision to a DS here in NJ. Of course I have to jump through the same hoops I had to do the first time - 6 months of diet, nutritionist visit, psych consult, sleep study, etc. Ugh.
Hope all goes well on your revision journey.
Adele
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