Question:
Has anyone had a revision??

I am three years post op this weekend. I am gaining weight and scared. I was the one who helped several people get the courage to have the bypass and now I am the one who has failed. Although I am not the weight I was pre surgury. I am creeping up that hill. Any help or suggestions on revisions??    — MELANIE T. (posted on March 14, 2005)

March 14, 2005
Hi, I have not had a revision and was not aware that I could even have that done. I had my surgery 5/6/03 and I know that for me it is all wrong food choices. I need to look at why I overeat before I go on to look at revisions. Maybe you need to look at your intake and think about input.
   — Fatmamma

March 14, 2005
You can find lots of discussion of regain issues, including whether you need a revision, in these Yahoo groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/WLSrevisionsupport
   — Kay B.

March 14, 2005
I agree with the first suggestion. First take a look at your program. Are you compliant? Are you focusing on protein, water and excercise? Is there room for improvement in that area? Then, take a look at your capacity. Has it dramatically increased? Do you still get full on small amounts? Finally, if you are convinced that it is a mechanical failure then you need to be scoped. When my vbg failed I found that although I still couldn't eat much at one time without throwing up, in just a few minutes I was hungry again. I started regaining and felt like the biggest failure. I struggled with it for about a year before someone convinced me to look into checking out my surgery and a possible revision. I did a variation on the upper GI where I ate food with barium mixed in it and watched its progress on the monitor. The food literally fell from the pouch to the stomach right before our eyes. The tech had never seen anything like it. My surgeon then scoped me and determined that my ring was gone and that the only way I could hope to lose weight was to revise the surgery. He refused to revise the VBG due to high failure rates and would only revise to a proximal RNY. That was fine with me as it has been a better tool for me. That was almost 5 years ago. I hope some of this has helped and best of luck to you!
   — Kellye C.

March 14, 2005
I was revised due to staple line disruption. I had distal RNY, still do. Right at this moment, I have 2 guests. One is 3 yrs post-proximal RNY, and revised to distal last week. The other had her proximal done in 2000 and her distal revision a year ago. It's actually more common than you think. When we choose our surgery, we often don't know which questions to ask, and sometimes don't get the real answers. Part of it can be your mechanics, part of it can be strict adherence to a bad program, and part of it can be the surgery you had not being matched to your needs. But it bears looking into
   — vitalady

March 14, 2005
I wish i had a way to do some thing for me to i only lost 65 pd in 8 months i know its just that i am ment to be FAT so what can i do hope you all the luck you can stand .
   — mildred P.

March 15, 2005
First of all, I really want to thank you all for your courage and honesty. I had RNY on 4/11/03, lost 80 lbs. in six months, and stopped dead in my tracks because I went back to old behavior. I'm ashamed to tell you this, but I ate an entire quarter pounder last week without even thinking about it! Since I'm coming up on my 2-year anniversary, I really am trying to get back in the groove: Protein shakes for breakfast, vigilant about my vitamins, and at least 30 mins of cardio a day. The lowest I got was 204 (down from 296). My goal is to break that 100-mark by summer and reach goal by the end of the year. I just really wanted to say thanks to everybody who posted. You all really made a difference in this post-ops recovery!
   — momstah