Question:
stomach streching back out after vsg surgery

i was wondering if anyone's stomach streched back out after vsg surgery, and gained all the weight back?    — mocoso65 (posted on June 27, 2010)

June 27, 2010
It is certainly possible. You have to work at it... if you graze or eat progressively larger meals so that the stomach stretches then you will find yourself back where you started. The best bet, in my opinion, if one feels like their stomach is stretching or they are able to eat more than they should be able to, is to go back to pure protein shakes for a week. Is it pleasant... nope. Follow it with mush for a week... and you will find your stomach back nice and tight. This isn't an easy fix... it is a lifetime of work and learning. When I went to get my surgery - which was an rny not a vsg - they sold the positives and the successes... BUT I worked in the claims department for Blue Shield at the time and you would not believe the number of calls I received from people trying to push through claims for revisions and second gastric bypass surgeries after completely blowing the first ones. Sometimes people are their own worst enemy. All of the different wls are only as good as the work people put into them.
   — Jeanette Hagar

June 28, 2010
I am a nurse and have seen failed weight loss surgery from RNY and lapband. Its hard for me to believe people are able to eat around the RNY but they do. I'm sure the same will be said for VSG but its not as common in the area that I live so as of yet I havent even taken care of a pt that had one. But again all of these are tools not quick fixes, dont assume that whatever surgery you get its a for sure thing unless you put the effort into making it work.
   — kb64

June 28, 2010
This topic came up at one of the support groups at my surgeon's office. The NUT agreed with the first post - he recommended going back to a full liquid diet for one or two weeks, then going back through the progression that you did after you got off of the liquids after surgery. His main advice was to make sure it was full meal replacement liquids, not just protein shakes or something. Make sure you get a rounded (or as rounded as liquid allows) diet.
   — HLB