STAPLE LINE DISSRRUPTION

HI IT ME AGAIN.  WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF A STAPLE LINE DISSRRUPTION?  HAS ANYONE HAD ONE.   THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND CONCERN.   KAREN

if you were done lap, it cannot happen.

if you were done open, you can get your op report and see if you were transected or not. If you were NOT, the symptoms might include:
wt gain for no reason (no change in eating)
being able to eat suddenly OR gradually more
acid reflux

not usually pain, nausea, vomiting, any of those.

my WLS 10/94, revision due to SLD 1/2000

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REPLY.  I HAVE GAINED WEIGHT, BUT I AM OVEREATING THE WRONG THINGS.  I'M SO HUNGRY, WHICH I HAVE NEVER BEEN AFTER ALMOST 4 YRS. AND I CAN EAT MORE THAN I EVER COULD.  I AM GOING TO MY SURGEON SOON FOR A CHECK UP SO I WILL HAVE HIM EXAMIN ME.  THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP.  KAREN

Why can't it happen if done Lap? I really have no idea.  I am three years out and have been able to eat more too. I knew this would happen. The time for accountability is upon me! It was so easy in the beginning and now I find that i must actually do the work in order for the surgery to continue working for me........Alas, the complications of life.......................................

The stapler for lap is about as big around as a fat pen, so it can fit thru little holes. It clamps, staples and cuts with one piece of equipment, 3 separate "motions".

The non-transecting device is HUGE, a two handed thingy, So, if you were done lap, ONLY the smaller device will fit. If you were done open, it could be either way, depending on the doc's preference.

The surgeries I've seen were all revisions, done open, but the doc used the lap instruments for that part.

Of course you can eat more! You're sposta be able to at some point. I see most of you have programs that increase your eating immediately. Our program is 4-6 meals of 1-2 oz each UNTIL GOAL WT. We can eventually eat more, but they're in no hurry to start. So, we eat less food for the first year or so, b ut we take more vites and proteins than other programs. But, OTOH, most of us from that era got 100% wt loss.

But if you're 2 yrs out, for example, how you started out is kinda moot. Some programs plant the thought that you're trying to obtain a "normal" plate of foods, stressing that you'll some day be normal. We wont'. Our program takes us from "ridiculously small" to small normal. Different mind set.

Thank you for answering my post. I really had no idea things could be so different for WLS patience. I think we are normal.................normal people watch their weight by watching what and how much they eat.  Normal for me as an obese person was whatever, whenever, how much I wanted ever. That gal and I fight constantly........... Especially during those days in the month of PMS and or menopausal symptoms. But at least I still fight!!!!!!!!!!!!

Figure they've been doing them, in one version or another, since 1955! My doc since 1963. Lots been learned, just not much about the nutrition end.

I'm not normal. I have a fatal disease that is in remission. I live on abnormally small meal portions, avoid milk & sugar. But it works.

All the calorie counting and exercise I did for most of my life never worked. For long. It wasn't the solution. And I certainly could never eat what my thin friends ate! Not even close.

With the surgery, I have basically, abnormal portion control and I control what goes in. If I eat sugar, I gain wt. So simple. And of what I get, the majority is malabsorbed, which is a sobering thought.

When ppl insist obesity is a mental disorder, I have to remind them that I'm a distal (most radical) of the gastric bypass family and that if I was mentally ill or character flawed, I would have A.) been able to out eat the surgery with no problem by grazing OR B.) lost wt until I vanished, because this surgery is too radical to sustain life in a normal person.