Question:
Fusion: is it common or what?

I've been told that my 'pouch' and my old stomach have 'fused' back together and it is as if the surgery had never been done. I"m only 7 months post-op. what gives?    — slkacred (posted on December 19, 2006)

December 19, 2006
Where is your food going to? What part of your tummu? What happen to the staples?
   — Diane C.

December 19, 2006
Could you give a little more information? Did you have your pouch scoped so this fusion was seen? Were you stapled, or transected (thinking staple line failure or fistula)? Anybody else want to chime in?
   — LisaHillsinger

December 19, 2006
I was told that the food was going from my pouch into my old stomach and "it is like the surgery had never been done". I don't know what happened to the staples. The surgeon called on me on my cell to give me the results of the test. He was brisk, abrupt, and seemed in a hurry to get rid of me. He wasn't giving me time to think of questions. I was so overwhelmed with what I had just been told that I couldn't think of questions fast enough and he wasn't volunteering anything. All information given was strictly in answer to my direct question. He won't do a revision. He said he could, but he won't. He referred me to two other surgeons. What could have happened? He said that sometimes as the pouch and the stomach lie so close together that they 'fuse' back together. whaddaya think?
   — slkacred

December 19, 2006
Were you originally transected? That is were both parts stapled, stitched, and cut apart completely? Staple line failure is very common for those not transected but stomachs growing back together... I was told by the head of the ASBS its possible but one in a million or some such.
   — bob-haller

December 20, 2006
Your doctor sounds like a jerk!
   — StarWish624

December 22, 2006
Sounds to me like he's trying to avoid a lawsuit.
   — KristineMarie

December 22, 2006
Sounds like a SLD staple line disruption, very common when not transected. Michelle Curran has been thru this, its a VERY common problem! Call your surgeons offie back and ask if you were transected!
   — bob-haller