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 I'm curious myself....thanks for posting this question.

Im sorry to hear (sorry I couldn't recall name) you are in the hospital. Did you have health issues before the DS that may have contributed to the problems? Are you on a regular protein/vitamin diet, with regular dr and surgeon follow-up? Just trying to see if there is anything we can do to protect ourselves from medical harm IF we get the DS...

The NUT said the RNY changes, slows down your metabolism. My pouch is still tiny, but I was eating frequently, badly.

Doc came back nothing wrong but not enough b12 or vit D. It is my diet and lack of exercise. I slipped into this comfortable wine drinking after work and ordering pizza  for dinner and now I am paying for it BIG time. So my surgeons book says 800 calorie diet and exercise,,,,,I am doing that now and logging my food. But I just wanted to let you know it was all me I was in denial. Now I have to fight to get back down to a resonanable size and I am miserable and completely depressed! But only eating 800 calories a day is miserable I am starving and feel like throwing up all day because I am so hungry.....the rny messed with my metabolsim doc said and this is the price I pay.

I sprouted numerous neurological problems even tho I only lost 40lbs. I was unable to eat meat, veggies , fruit and basically anything UNprocessed.
without the takedown my family and my long time physician beleive I would not be here today to type this . If I had been told or had found thru my 6 months of research BEFORE I had my rny that it would have a chance to lead to ANY of these nuero and other issues not just in the short term but in the long term as well, I would have to not have any type of wls.
a quick snyopsis of my story

For 3.5 years and I had
1. An inability to eat ANY veggies and fruits (maybe applesauce)
2. An inability to eat any meat aside from sandwich meat
3. Vomiting daily at the least (yes despite chewing my food well and taking small bites)
4. Injecting myself twice a week with vitamin b12 and it having NO EFFECT on how I felt
5. 2 strictures, four endoscopies and no effect on my healthy (all the docs said everything looked good and I SHOULD be able to eat what I knew I could not)
6. Joint pain (nope, never really had joint pain pre rny)
7. The beginnings of what *I know* would eventually be reactive hypoglycemia
8. Inability to do either job because of memory problems. My mental processing speed tested in the 14th percentile. Both jobs required good memory and one required quick processing speed
9. The worst depression despite a slew of anti depressant drugs I tried
10. A loss of only 40 frickin pounds, thus now I was still morbidly obese AND sicker than I had ever been in my entire life
11. Dizziness for almost 4 years consistently. It finally started going away a few months after my takedown.
12. Rotting teeth that would take upwards of about $8000.00 to repair and that was quoted when I HAD dental insurance. I used to get compliments on my teeth all the time but the vomiting and dry mouth the 8 or so additional medications I was on left me with ugly, painful and rotting teeth.
13. Seizure activity that I NEVER had pre RNY
14. Unrelenting fatigue. To give you an idea, my daily choice of activity was EITHER taking a shower OR making a simple dinner for my family. If I made the mistake of doing both or anything extra, my body would make me pay dearly and for days upon days
15. Almost 80k of medical debt and no way to pay it
16. ICE cold feet and burning sensations in my palms aka peripheral neuropathy
17. Vision problems
18. Finally pain but mainly just in my upper right back which seems to have also been a form of peripheral neuropathy

Why did you have your surgery taken down?

  You bet ..    But, what WLS alternative is there that gives (supposedly) as great % of EWL and maintenance of loss?   Until something better comes along, I guess we can't complain much .. 

I didn't realize how few coping skills I had outside of pigging out on food.  Handling my emotions has been really hard.  I don't regret the surgery, I just didn't realize how difficult the emotional stuff would be.  I read all the books and did therapy pre-op, but you don't really know how it feels until you are experiencing it.

I had my rny takendown 3.5 years after the surgery and it saved my life and restored many of my health issues caused by rny
grace

This is to the nurse that posted.  These are the kind of comments that are so annoying.  I had 1 cavity my whole life until a couple years after my surgery, then I got 2 more then a few more until now I had 13.  Same with the muscle pain.  Nothing like this has ever run on either side of my family.  If you read these posts you will see that these things are prominent in people that have had the surgery.  I don't think we were all prone to get the same things.
 

Did you ever make a decision? If so, what was it and why? I'm in the decision making stages myself so any input you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!