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Hi Dr.

Hope you are doing good. I will let you know how I am doing after tuesday.

Thanks for being you

Connie from Alabama

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> Here are a few excerpts from just the last couple of days.

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> Yikes.

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> <dragonfl...ao (DOT) ..

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> ...I had an open roux-en-y on 6/27/02.

> I lost about 30 lbs. stopped and started gaining.

> I have struggled with and gained and lost the same ten lbs. for the las 4

> months.

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> Robin,

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> Hi! My name is ...

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> I am having a revision from a failed RNY...

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> My RNY worked for 18 months - I lost 125 pounds and

> now I'm up 50 pounds so that's scary. My RNY was

> 7-99 so in the last 2 years that's where the 50 pounds

> has come back on...

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> Good luck on your consult!!

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> Hi Marnie~

> I'm Gia from land.

>

> I had open rny in December of 1999 and after an initial phase of losing

> quickly and then slowing down and gaining, I decided it would be better

for

> me to try and get the Duodenal Switch if at all possible.

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> I know how you feel. I had the open rny in '99 and after wonderful initial

> results I'm gaining my weight back. That is a lot to go through just to

have

>

> to do it again.

> I'm looking seriously at the DS instead of some of the other

> options. The rny works great for some folks and not so well for others.

> Every

> surgeon seems to do it differently as far as distal vs proximal, pouch

size,

>

> etc.

> It's a crapshoot.

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> Good Luck,

> Hutch

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> Hmmm, ...

> I went to www.duodenalswitch.com <http://www.duodenalswitch.com> and

found

> a list of surgeons who perform the surgery, but there aren't any in Texas.

>

> I need a revision, but I'd hate to get an RNY knowing there is something

> better and more effective I could have had, ya know??

> I already chose the wrong procedure the first go around when I got a

VBG....

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> hello everyone

> I'm Rosie in New Jersey.

> I had stapling in 1986 at 290 pounds. It was not a success.....only lost

50

> pounds....staples never made me feel full...and recent scope showed all

> staples are gone...something I feel happened soon after the surgery...the

> band is on place.....and has caused some vomiting ...

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> I started out at 266 - " only " went down to 205 and never lost another

pound

> - I'm now back up to 266 and am trying for a revision by this summer (I'm

> 5'8 " )

>

> Robin

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> Lindi R. wrote:

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> I had a VBG in September of 2000. I had a revision to an RNY in October

> 2003 by Dr. Warnock in Wichita Falls. He only does open RNY revisions,

> though.

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> Hi all,

> I am mary from St. Louis and had gastric stapling in 1986 and lots of

> problems and vomiting. Was 300 lbs and lost to 180 and then regained

> to 250 then exercized to 220.

> 3 years ago had revision to rny.

> Hubby of 23 years moved out to find a new life.

> Didn't eat much for 2 years and went down to 135 and looked like a

> ghost and fainted alot.

> had tummy tuck a year and half ago with staff infection and homebound

> for 3 months.

> Then decided I needed to live and get better so started eating better

> and more.

> Now 180.

> yuk

> I don't want to regain more and more.

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> Hello everybody! Actually I have joined this group to help a friend

> that doesn`t own a computer(can you imagine that!).

> had an RNY 2 years ago and lost great the first year,but since

> has gained 40# back:

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> Hi,

>

> Hi everyone,

>

> I haven't been at the computer for a while. I had my revision to a

> roux-en-y on Dec. 23rd. At three weeks post-op I had lost 40lbs.

> I've developed severe nausea and dry heaves. No vomiting. I seem to

> do ok if I don't move and stay in bed. Not really eating.

>

> I had my surgery at Mayo clinic due to complications from an attempt

> to do the surgery in July 2002 in Grand Rapids. My surgery took

> between 9 and 10 hrs and involved a massive abdominal hernia and

> massive seroma (fluid pocket of several liters) surrounding the

> hernia. I was in the hospital at Mayo for 10 days. I am following

> the protocol from their dietician. 2 flinstones, 2 tums ultra's

> daily, monthly B-12 shot etc...

>

> Thanks,

>

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> I had an open roux-en-y on 6/27/02. I lost about 30 lbs. stopped and

> started gaining. I have struggled with and gained and lost the same

> ten lbs. for the las 4 months.

>

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> Hi,

>

> My name is Batrina I too had a Gastric Bypass in 2001 I went

> from 364lbs to 220lbs however I've gained 20 pounds and an upper GI

revealed

>

> my staples moved and pouch enlargement. Now I am scheduled for a revision

on

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> 3/13/02.

>

> B.

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> Hi Everyone!!

>

> Since I'm waiting for insurance approval for my revision of my transected

> proximal RNY to a distal RNY, I'm wondering what to expect or how to

prepare

> for life as a distal RNY. I know that my malabsorbtion of nutrients will

> increase so protein and vitamin intake with be super critical.

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> I desperately want a revision from my VGB (for which I paid $15,000

> cash for in 1997) to a RNY. I have had enough of this throwing

> up/gastric reflux business. The VGB was the biggest waste of money I

> have ever spent. I feel like I actually paid someone to make me eat

> soup and mashed potatoes for the rest of my life.

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> Hi Everyone!!

>

> I'm in the process of seeking insurance approval for a revision of my

> proximal RNY to a distal RNY. I had first considered going back to my

> original surgeon for a revision, but since he wasn't concerned by my

failure

> to reach goal or lack of weight loss, I felt I needed to go to a different

> surgeon.

>

> I did consult via email with Dr. Ara Keshishian in Delano, CA who performs

> RNY to DS revisions. He said he would need to see my surgical report, but

he

> thought he could possibly help me. However he warned me that a RNY to DS

> revision would be a very complicated surgery plus he estimated I would

only

> lose an additional 60 pounds (getting me down to 230 pounds).

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> Hi Everyone!!

>

> I've been lurking for past weeks, but now I've decided to poke my head out

> to seek advice.

>

> My name is CB and I had WLS in December 2000. At the time I weighed 405

> pounds and my BMI was 69. I now weigh 292 pounds and my BMI is 50.

>

> The first six months after surgery I lost weight easily. I lost weight

every

> week and hit the magic 300 pounds by May 2001. Then my weight loss stalled

> and I hit the world's longest plateau. My weight loss went from 10 pounds

> per month down to 3 pounds per month to *horrors* gaining weight. From a

> pre-op weight of 405 pounds, I had managed to get down to 279 pounds then

my

> weight crept back up to 300 pounds. Feeling out of control, I joined

Weight

> Watchers in November 2001 and managed to lose 13 pounds, but I've been

stuck

> around 285-290 ever since.

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> I have had to have 2 endoscopies. I got my surgical report and this is

what

> it said, this should help you.

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> RECOMMENDATIONS:

> We will place the pt on a proton pump inhibitor for at least a month to

help

> heal up the gastritis that she has in her gastric pouch. I do not think

> that the vomiting problem will be easily solved. The pouch outlet has to

be

> kept at about 10mm (1 cm) in order for her to keep her weight off. If the

> pouch outlet were enlarged much, then she would probably start gaining

> weight again. The only other solution would be to convert her to a

> Roux-en-Y gastric bypass which would allow for a larger pouch outlet and

yet

> allow her to keep her weight off. She will follow up with her surgeon.

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> Hi, I wrote last week thinking I might have a problem with my proximal

> rny(done in June 2000.)..after an upper GI and small bowel study and an

> endoscopy this week, it was determined that the connection from my pouch

to

> intestine has opened up, and the radiologist says that it " empties rapidly

> from the pouch to the intestine, which has a significant bulging, quite

> larger than the pouch " . I was shown the pictures from the endoscopy, and

it

> is wide open going into the intestine. I am DEPRESSED about the news, but

I

>

> knew deep inside that something had gone wrong as I saw my weight going

up,

> and some discomfort... I saw Dr. Oliphant in Urbana, Illinois, liked him

a

> lot, but he says this is a very dangerous and complicated prospect with a

> big

> chance of leaking post op, and that he has not done this before.

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