Question:
diverticulum in pouch (revision?)

I will be four years out from RNY july 28th. The past 1 1/2 months I have been having severe abdominal pain with I eat, constant nausea (eating or not). I had an upper GI which showed a diverticulum outpouch in my pouch. Doc called me yesterday and said the we are looking as surgery. He has only seen this happen twice, (once so happened to be a close friend of mine but her's was a bit worse that mine is so far.) They considered her's as a revision, something to do with either the duodenal or jujunum (sp?). What they found is a portion of my pouch "hanging". They are doing an endoscopy tomorrow to check for uclers (which he would treat first before surgery, though none showed up on the Upper GI) and then we would talk about surgery which would consist of going in lap and "trimming" the pouch as he put it. My question is has anyone heard of this? and what is the outcome? Thanks Keri 7/28/04 RNY 5/1/05 Emergency surgery for internal henia and obstruction at 5 weeks preggo with twins 10/30/05 c-section for twins 7/25/07 gallbladder removal Awaiting surgery to fix pouch    — kerihough (posted on June 30, 2008)

June 30, 2008
Sorry no anwser but will keep u in my prayers Tammi
   — Tammi Sandoval

June 30, 2008
Never heard of it....You sure have had some troubles...It makes one wonder if they are somehow connected to each other, you know? (except the pregnancy stuff, of course) Hopefully this is the last of your trouble and you can finally relax and be healthy...Good luck and a speedy recovery!
   — .Anita R.

June 30, 2008
thinking about it, i actually find it interesting that though my doctor has only seen this twice before me, my friend is one of those two. We both had the same doctor (not the current doctor). I wonder if he created our pouch differently than others that would cause the hanging outpouch. hopefully i don't follow anymore in her footsteps cause that would mean another (third) revision for line distruption and feeding tube.
   — kerihough

July 1, 2008
Hello Keri! I to have the "jejunal diverticulum" or second stomach as some call it. The hanging pouch from where the small intestine was disconnected. I will be having a revision on 7-23-08 and will also have the distal stomach removed as well. I had an open rny w/ gall bladder removal in 2002. I cannot find anything on this topic. I have tried to google this and it really doesnt tell me anything. Please let me know if you have any more info on this and I will share with you what i find.
   — cowgrlnfw