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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.
Hello,
I forgot to answer the big questions. RNY July 1999 start weight 330 down to 185 now 275 3-31-2019.
Yes very happy until the weight started around 2010.
I really think my RNY was a success 20 years is a long time weight gain did not start until 11 years in and I did not gain all the weight. Beyond happy about revision when is yours done ?
Michelle
Hello from Pittsburgh PA,
Well my prayers are answered I found a DR that does RNY revisions.
Sadly about 10 would not do a revision and 5 of that 10 only do revisions,
if there are leaks etc.
So we all know the next steps diet,see wls trained therapist, and pray my insurance pays
for it. ( Get letter of recommendation from all DR) etc.
I see a lot sleeves revised to RNY I think the reason why if they do a sleeve then
if you do not get the weight off. You have the rny, if you get the rny to start the only option is rny to rny revision or the switch.
michelle
Hi Michelle
I being revised too. Mine is due to my sleeve, GERD and a hernia. I had my sleeve done in 2014. I had some regain. However, this surgery is due to the reflex and it's damage.
Why are you seeking revision? How did the first procedure go? Are you happy about doing this again.
Had RNY 1999 now need a revision to ? After 20 years no wonder.
The only thing I think that will hold me back, is my ins.
My ins says rev cannot be patients fault from stretching.
I got upper GI it says only a small amount stretched.
Here we go gotta diet until 15 May and get weighed and start the fight to get it oh boy.
Michelle.
Perhaps you should get a second opinion from another bariatric surgeon.
Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."
