Question:
I have a friend who is having an open rny and the incision is like an upside down V.

Has anyone heard of this? Mine starts up at my breast bone and goes down around my belly button but is a straight line. I have never heard of starting up at the breast bone and cutting down like an upside down V.??    — Anita I. (posted on June 8, 2001)

June 8, 2001
There is a hospital here in Cleveland that does the upside-down V (Metro Health Center). I know of 2 people in my support group that have had it. One has successfully lost 125lbs. The other just had her surgery on May 30th, I visited her, saw the scar. It looked fine. More like a wide upside-down U than an upside down V.
   — Kimberly L.

June 8, 2001
My incision goes horizontal, about 5 inches across my waist. The surgeon told me he did it that way because of the way my stomach was. He said it was a little harder to do the surgery that way, I guess to get to my gallbladder. But I haven't had any problems wearing clothes on my waist now that it is healed.
   — JazzBear111

June 8, 2001
I had an open RNY on 4/19 and also have an upside down U or V (kinda in between both those letters LOL. My doctor explained he does it that way so there is less of a chance for hernias, and he does remove the gallbladder.
   — Andrea M.