Re: Hole in stomach - Hope

January 12, 2003

In a message dated 1/12/2003 7:40:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,

> the scope and found a hole in my pouch going into my old stomach,

> and my surgeon wants to fix it so I have an appt. with him this

> coming wed. however something new is going on which started this

> past week, I am able to eat normal just like I did before the

> surgery, and I always feel like I'm starving, I can eat a full

> sandwich, or a full plate of whatever I'm having, which

> before this

> past week if I even tried to do that I would get sick.

Hope,

I am 7 years out and had the exact symptoms you have right now when I had a

staple line disruption. I could eat more, had reflux, gained 50 lbs. I did

this about 20 months out. I had a revision and they transsected and REMOVED my

lower stomach (a subtotal gastrectomy) leaving only my little stomach wtih the

pouch. I'm not sure who your surgeon is, but Dr. Ki Oh and Dr. Ross Fox did my

revision in March 99 and I quickly lost the weight that I had regained and have

maintained every since. I am a 50 inch distal common channel (originally too),

with a transsected stomach and a 29 cc pouch.

B

Distal RNY 12/27/95

275/152

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