New Procedure for Those That MESSED UP FIRST TIME OUT

I'll have been 2 years post op this Nov 2007.  I didn't do what I was supposed to do.   I watched friends of mine who had the procedure, didn't exercise and eat right and just assumed that it would work out for me.  Well, what's good for the goose isn't always good for the gander, it would seem. However, after going back to my surgeon and being brutally honest and admitting what I did (and DIDN'T do), he told me there was a second, second chance to get it right. He was performing a new procedure called an EGD with sclerotherapy on patients.  I had it done this past Friday and am doing EVERYTHING he told me to do.  I'm down 11 pounds since Friday (today is Wednesday) and I KNOW that this is how it was supposed to be the first time! I'm astonished by the complete and total LACK of hunger I feel.  And I'm using this time to jus****ch myself and see all of the mindless eating I would have done or have been doing had I not had this procedure done last week. For those of you who may have screwed up like I did, there is hope.  Talk to your doctors.  PRAY.  BE BLESSED

Did you doctor inform you that you will probably need more then one sclerotherapy?  I have a friend is has been having this done for at least a year, I believe she's on number 9, she really hasn't lose much weight with this.

no he didn't.  How is she doing on it?  Did she have the same kinds of results as I did initially?  Would she be willing to discuss it?

Anybody heard of Stomaphyx?  Doctor in Ocala Fl is doing it. 

Good for you to take advantage of this!  Keep in mind, everyone is different. You're an individual - that may not need what someone else requires. Your ATTITUDE is GREAT!!!  You're working this "tool" and I'm proud of you.   Keep focused - stay the course and you'll do GREAT!

There is a doctor in Ocala Fl, Dr. W. Todd Overcash, MD, who does something called a Stomaphyyx.  He is was at the OH conference in Atlanta recently.  I was impressed with him and may look into the revision in the future.  He operates at the Munroe Regional Medical Center, a Center of Excellence, in bariatraic surgery.

I do not know anymore about it than what they told us at the conference.  This doctor has done about 30, so I would like to see him do more before I go that route.  The company that makes the device that is used says other hospitals will be doing it in the future.  You might have your husband to check it out.  I think I remember that he is a pharmaist.  Good luck to you, too.  I am driving myself crazy trying to keep my weight down. Patricia