Soo outdone with my results and depressed

I had an endoscopy and the doctor states that I had no staple line and my pouch and stomach are as one again. I had gastric bypass surgery 9/27/2007. Lost 140 pounds and all of a sudden 3 years ago I began to gain...I have gained 40 pounds back.  I still don't eat more than 3 meals a day an occasional snack but I don know what has happened.  I still dump if I et the wrong things. For a bacterial infection I had to take doxycliclinine for months. I wonder if that did something to my staple line.  I think I will have to have a revision surgery....will someone that has had revision surgery talk to me

What does your bariatric surgeon say?

The rerouting of your intestines is what causes the dumping. It is not affected by the size of your pouch.

hi and thanks!!! I have only had endoscopy...the doctor told me that my staple line is gone and secreting lots of acid.  I will see the surgeon soon

I believe this is called a gastrogastric fistula and is resolved with surgery.

Hi Coogar1, I had my RNY in December 2004. 

I have also had a few endoscopies and they revealed similar results.  However, the bypass doesn't seem to be a permanent revision of the stomach, from what I can tell.  I am not a doctor and I'm certainly no expert.  It scared me, because I thought I'd gain all my weight back, would have to depend entirely on my own willpower, etc.  Well, it's not true.  First of all, your stomach/pouch is forever changed by the surgery, even though it sorta seems to heals up from the surgery.  There is much less stomach acid, which reduces digestion in the stomach.  Again, I AM NOT AN EXPERT and THIS IS JUST MY PERSONAL THEORY COMBINED WITH INFORMATION FROM MY DOCTORS. 

If you go back to what you learned when you had your surgery, it WILL STILL WORK!  Go back to drinking tons of water every day, eating numerous small meals per day, protein forward, and all the things you did following your surgery, and you will be pleased.  Make sure you're taking your vitamins and seek supervision of your physician.  And if you're like me, you're going to dump forever unless you stop eating the wrong stuff!  That's the great/terrible thing about gastric bypass.  It forces you to eat healthy!  Or at least to NOT eat unhealthy.

I had two pretty serious lung diseases and was treated with a lot of Prednisone (UGH) whi*****reases your appetite beyond belief.  I ate like food was going out of style.  And I gained about 60 pounds the first time, then another 25 the second time - talk about depressing!  But now I have been gradually losing weight and it hasn't really been that hard, and I have never successfully dieted in my entire life (duh - the reason I had to have RNY).  You can do it!  Do it gradually, do what you know, and your body will help you!