Re: One persons experience with WLS

[Guest guest]

Who is this person's surgeon! They should have done more about her

nutritional problems long ago! Secondly she should demand that they lengthen

her common channel. If she is in no shape for surgery, they should give her

a feeding tube in her bilio limb, to bolster her nutrition until she is in

good enough shape for surgery. She needs to make a huge demand here to her

surgeon!!

Dawn--far south Chicago suburban area

Dr. Hess, Bowling Green, OH

BPD/DS

4/27/00

www.duodenalswitch.com

267 to 165 5' 4 "

size 22 to size 10

have made size goal

no more high blood pressure, sore feet, or dieting!

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 01/01/2002 10:23:06 AM Central Standard Time,

vt_rita@... writes:

> I have been taking iron injections

> for 6 months now, and they are still not up to normal.

> I will have to have those injections for the rest of

> my life and they are NOT like the B12.

She also needs to move on to iron infusions! I don't understand why they

would keep messing around with just injections!

Dawn--far south Chicago suburban area

Dr. Hess, Bowling Green, OH

BPD/DS

4/27/00

www.duodenalswitch.com

267 to 165 5' 4 "

size 22 to size 10

have made size goal

no more high blood pressure, sore feet, or dieting!

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 01/01/2002 10:23:06 AM Central Standard Time,

vt_rita@... writes:

> I have been taking iron injections

> for 6 months now, and they are still not up to normal.

> I will have to have those injections for the rest of

> my life and they are NOT like the B12.

She also needs to move on to iron infusions! I don't understand why they

would keep messing around with just injections!

Dawn--far south Chicago suburban area

Dr. Hess, Bowling Green, OH

BPD/DS

4/27/00

www.duodenalswitch.com

267 to 165 5' 4 "

size 22 to size 10

have made size goal

no more high blood pressure, sore feet, or dieting!

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 01/01/2002 10:23:06 AM Central Standard Time,

vt_rita@... writes:

> I have been taking iron injections

> for 6 months now, and they are still not up to normal.

> I will have to have those injections for the rest of

> my life and they are NOT like the B12.

She also needs to move on to iron infusions! I don't understand why they

would keep messing around with just injections!

Dawn--far south Chicago suburban area

Dr. Hess, Bowling Green, OH

BPD/DS

4/27/00

www.duodenalswitch.com

267 to 165 5' 4 "

size 22 to size 10

have made size goal

no more high blood pressure, sore feet, or dieting!

[Guest guest]

There is a revision surgery to correct this condition. Dr. Anthone at USC in

L.A. does it. Basically, it is a lengthening of the common channel so that more

absorption may occur.

Not all WLS surgeons are able to do this and apparently, hers is not. Hopefully,

someone will inform her that a life sentence of this misery is avoidable.

Sharon Lee -- San Diego

DGB w/DS - Dr. Anthone - USC - June 1999

One persons experience with WLS

got this from one of the BPD/DS folks and wanted to

share this with you. Rita in Vermont

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Her experience only......

Had BPD/DS surgery on June 1, 1999. I went from 280 to

114 in a year. Size 26 to a size 4. I then gained back

about 15 pounds of that after 18 months which is fine

because the doctors thought that I was too small. It

took me about 8 months to gain it back. My size is

great but I have more medical problems now than I ever

did before surgery mostly due to malabsorption.