Question:
Anyone else a RYN failure?

I'm 6 months post-op and have only lost 43 pounds. I need to lose at least 90 pounds more. I would feel like I never had the surgery if it wasn't for a 10 inch scar running down my mid section. I have never dumped or vomited. I am suppose to have a 5cc stomach but can eat at pretty normal amount of food. I'm really back to where I started having to diet and exercise the traditional way. As far as a tool I guess it malabsorbs some food but that's about it anyone else experience the same depressing thing?    — Candace F. (posted on July 18, 2002)

July 18, 2002
It may not seem like much, but 40 lbs is 40 lbs! I have been to several support group meeting where people have lost 40-50 lbs in 5 months. Think of it this way, the slower you lose, the better shape your skin will be in ie not so much droopy, saggy skin!
   — jenn2002

July 18, 2002
Hi Candace: Have you had your dr check for a leak of any kind...maybe your food is dumping into your "old" stomach, making you gain or maybe just not lose...check with him
   — Joi G.

July 18, 2002
A leak would be life threatening, I don't think that is a possibility. Maybe you were referring to a staple line disruption. If you were not transected, then it is likely the cause. If you are not sure, contact your surgeon. Some docs still perform this type of bypass.
   — Cheri M.

July 18, 2002
Sounds like something may have went wrong with the surgery. I'd have your surgeon check it out.
   — Danmark

July 18, 2002
I'm transected so it's not a disruption. I told him I could eat to much at the 3 month checkup and admitted I wasn't exercising 1 hour everyday and was told that was the reason I'm not losing. I told them I didn't exercise a lot with WW but ate more and lost more pounds. I have a feeling the opening is to big and it goes into my intestines but since they don't fix that anyways what's the point?
   — Candace F.

July 23, 2002
I have two suggestions for you... 1st... use www.fitday.com.... it's a totally free site that you can use to track your food intake each day. 2nd... investigate the "pouch rules for dummies" you can take the yogert test to see how big your stomach actually is... if it's grown to large you can go back to the "liquid stage" of your initial post-op time and actually SHRINK your stomach back to the size it was right after surgery. The only hold back on that is that you have to stay at that stage for a longer time than what was the original state... I only had to stay on the liquid state for 2 weeks. Good Luck
   — lindajenkins

July 23, 2002
If you do any pouch capacity testing be sure to use something bulky like cottage cheese or stiff oatmeal. Yogurt is liquidy and will go right through. You could eat enough of that to really scare yourself! LOL When I was a new postop I panicked cuz I could eat 8 oz of yogurt but it was just sliding on thru.
   — ctyst