Question:
Did anyone find out during their WL testing that they had Gastric Polyps?

Can the surgery still be done with gastric ployps?    — jeannieb (posted on June 20, 2005)

June 20, 2005
Absolutely the surgery can still be done. I had a history of gastric polyps also. When I had my consult for WLS I mentioned this to the surgeon and he said no problem. He would put a set of clips in my residual stomach, that can be found with a fluoroscope and then dilated open should it become necessary to get to my old stomach. This will be a simple outpatient procedure. He also scoped my stomach 2 weeks before WLS. He found 15 small polyps that he removed. I have not had my old stomach scoped since that time, which is 2-1/1 yrs ago. We plan to scope it at about 5 years PO and I am hopeful it will come up clean at that point. I am hoping that all of my polyps were the result of living on prescription stomach meds for the previous 8 years. I was on Prilosec which shuts the scid pump down in the stomach. While it solved the problems the anti-imflammatories were creating, it may well have created the polyp situation. If I do have more polyps at 5 yrs, then we will have to periodically check my old stomach. A slight inconvenience in the scheme of things. Assuming you have no other serious stomach condition, benign gastric polyps should not stop your WLS. Good Luck!
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