Recent Posts
I had the lap band in Mexico in 2004 this started the whole mess, Revised to RNY 2006. Due to vomiting for 2 years, could not find a doc in the states to take care of me. I am having so many issues only can eat slider foods, wt gain 35 lbs, now even those are hard to get down. (I also have RA, which my meds cause weigth gain). Vomiting a lot, pain. Went to a new doc, really like him. I am now being worked up for gastric outlet obstruction. 4 tests being done in the next two weeks. Pending the outcome I am looking at a another surgery. I have adhesion at my old lap band port site. Not sure what he thinking. Anybody else have this kind of issues?
Hi Michelle,
How did your appollo stitch surgery go and has it been successful? I would like to try it but worried if it will work.
Thanks
How did the overstitich work for you? I would like to do it but I have had a revision and that didn't work.
Hi Eve,
I had the RNY in 2002 and a revision in 2012. I don't think they really did anything in the revision I felt no restriction at all I could gulp water.
I am now wanting the appollo stitch but I hear it is pretty new and was curious of the outcome. Looks like you had yours a little over 2 years ago what were the results if you don't mind sharing.
Thanks
I was offered the Linx also, but there just isnt enough info for me. I wanted lap band when I first started this process and my doc told me there are complications with erosion and slippage but those are just coming to light after 10 years on the market The linx isnt that old yet, so i opted for the bypass revision from VSG...im only 15 months out from VSG and already scheduled for bypass on 4/22. Gerd is horrible, and im on meds 3 times a day at double recommended dosage. I havent slept lying down for over a year because if i do, i vomit up some God awful stuff in my sleep, IF i get to sleep that is.
I had RNY in 2010 and have not had any heartburn since then. Since you don't have a valve at the bottom of your stomach, acid should not be able to go up to your esophagus. I have recently been diagnosed with a sliding hiatal hernia and did not even know I had it.
Excellent idea! Thank you so much!
Michele
Dr. Greenbaum is a very good surgeon. I've heard many positive things about his work.
I would post on the DS board for sure; they might have more help for you, and they also might have advice for insurance issues. Good luck!
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
I would recommend that you stop wine and any other alcohol before you get really addicted. I know a few people who couldn't stop when should, believing that they can control the drinking. By the end, they couldn't. They became skinny alcoholics. Destroyed what they work for, family, work, etc.
The last time I used alcohol so I could eat more. And that vworked too well. I gained 25 -30 lbs over my goal. I gave up alcohol and without a huge effort I lost 35 lbs. I am now 5 lbs below my goal.
Giving up alcohol was not that difficult but it wasn't really very easy. I sometimes miss a glass of wine, or cold beer. But I honestly feel better not drinking. I miss the taste of it, but not feeling drunk, or the next day sweating a lot, or the burning of my esophagus.
I sleep better.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
Late reply here but thanks for this post. I had vsg Xmas week '16, was doing great but fell off track the end of '18. Part of my issue now is alcohol too. I didn't drink at all when I was losing. Somehow wine crept back into my diet and now I don't lose at all if I includethat, even if everything else is in line. Frustrating! I was thinking of revision. This was a goid teminder that the tool still works if I'm doing the right plan, which originally did not include wine.
