3+ years of the sleeve???
I am about 3 years out now, and have had zero complications...
I am still loving life with my sleeve! Been maintaining at or below goal for over 4 years!
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson
There are quite a few of us here who are three years or more out as I am. I have not had a single complication! I wouldn't trade my sleeve for anything. The only lab work thing that has popped up is that in the past few months I have become anemic, but I am taking iron supplements for it, and the numbers are improving.
As someone above said, I can now eat a little more -- maybe a third of a normal serving rather than a fourth, HA! And I have to be careful not to go with junk carbs and sugar, because it is easy to eat a lot of them, and they set me up for cravings for more of the same. That is how I regained my 25ish pounds.
Even though the sleeve is relatively new as a weight loss surgery, partial gastrectomies have been done for perhaps as much as a hundred years or more as a treatment for stomach cancer and severe ulcers. People do very well with a fully functioning tiny stomach! And, in my opinion, it is the weight loss surgery with the least risk of problems.
Best wishes on your journey :-)
--Dorothy
As someone above said, I can now eat a little more -- maybe a third of a normal serving rather than a fourth, HA! And I have to be careful not to go with junk carbs and sugar, because it is easy to eat a lot of them, and they set me up for cravings for more of the same. That is how I regained my 25ish pounds.
Even though the sleeve is relatively new as a weight loss surgery, partial gastrectomies have been done for perhaps as much as a hundred years or more as a treatment for stomach cancer and severe ulcers. People do very well with a fully functioning tiny stomach! And, in my opinion, it is the weight loss surgery with the least risk of problems.
Best wishes on your journey :-)
--Dorothy
Highest weight: 292 Pre-op weight: 265 Goal met: 150 Six years out: 185 and trying to lose again!
oh yeah there's a bunch of oldtimers ...6-10 years out RARELY come back here...we send em to the new VSG Maintenance Group
http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/VSGM/discussion/ they usually don't stay there either! lmao
No long term or short term complications w/ VSG...so far Ive read of...that's why I LIKE IT!!
Worst Ive seen with old-timers is WEIGHT REGAIN....egads..NO!! lmao!!
But a DO IT YERSELF FIX....not like in the pre-VSG days that's for sure!
Myself..regain..all but gone AGAIN, GALLBLADDER went kablooie at 2 yrs out. Very common startin at 6 months post op during the rapid weight loss phase, I had many risk factors not only WLS.
If yer looking at LONG TERM COMPLICATIONS in VSG...ya gotta research LONG TERM COMPLICATIONS in PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY...very similar surg. first one done in 1880 sumthin.
ALL long term complications in PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY that Ive read doin my pre-VSG research
are RELATED TO CHRONIC ...vitamin, mineral deficiencies AND bacterial overgrowth due to MALDIGESTIVE aspects of havin a smaller stomach...so that's why we gotta supplement FOR LIFE..we can't get in large quantities of vital nutrients from food anymore.
Calcium and D3--osteomalacia (bone softening)
B12, IRON....pernicious anemia, anemias ...ya gotta have a stomach to process both...we have less, intrinsic factor..so supplementin is important!
Bacterial overgrowth...we have less HCL..so have a rougher time killin them bad bugs we eat from meats (inc. fish), produce, contaminants in water....compounded by our ^^^ acidic (protein) diets, artificial sugar...we gotta pump up the probiotics periodically to prevent achlorhydia, and a whole lotta other digestive problems.
Also read of a few w/ Folate deficiencies but I usually don't think of it as a top one.
Also SMOKING with a smaller stomach...BAD NEWS...way higher incidence of stomach cancer..in partial gastrectomy
As with MAJORITY of diseases/disorders....it takes quite a while to MANIFEST! ...yer pluggin along losing substantial weight livin la vida loca not payin attention to chronic.....10 20 30 years out...BAM!
I dunno...VSG ain't really all that new...yeah just became officially recognized Jan 1, 2010 w/ its own CPT code 43775.....but first WLS - VSG done sum 11-12 years ago.
Bougie in VSG
http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/carmelita/blog/tag/bougie+ in+vsg/
May wanna read some ASMBS reports on VSG or PubMed..see what they're findin...seems to still be vitamin/min deficiencies...last I looked. I read sumthin about Hypervitamintosis A..which I have been tryin to tweak...because I get so much from my diet n I feel it! so cut back on my multi to a few times a week vs. everyday now.
Im doing my Annual Labs this afternoon....hopefully I haven't jacked myself up too bad!
Much luck in your research Lev!
http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/VSGM/discussion/ they usually don't stay there either! lmao
No long term or short term complications w/ VSG...so far Ive read of...that's why I LIKE IT!!
Worst Ive seen with old-timers is WEIGHT REGAIN....egads..NO!! lmao!!
But a DO IT YERSELF FIX....not like in the pre-VSG days that's for sure!
Myself..regain..all but gone AGAIN, GALLBLADDER went kablooie at 2 yrs out. Very common startin at 6 months post op during the rapid weight loss phase, I had many risk factors not only WLS.
If yer looking at LONG TERM COMPLICATIONS in VSG...ya gotta research LONG TERM COMPLICATIONS in PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY...very similar surg. first one done in 1880 sumthin.
ALL long term complications in PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY that Ive read doin my pre-VSG research
are RELATED TO CHRONIC ...vitamin, mineral deficiencies AND bacterial overgrowth due to MALDIGESTIVE aspects of havin a smaller stomach...so that's why we gotta supplement FOR LIFE..we can't get in large quantities of vital nutrients from food anymore.
Calcium and D3--osteomalacia (bone softening)
B12, IRON....pernicious anemia, anemias ...ya gotta have a stomach to process both...we have less, intrinsic factor..so supplementin is important!
Bacterial overgrowth...we have less HCL..so have a rougher time killin them bad bugs we eat from meats (inc. fish), produce, contaminants in water....compounded by our ^^^ acidic (protein) diets, artificial sugar...we gotta pump up the probiotics periodically to prevent achlorhydia, and a whole lotta other digestive problems.
Also read of a few w/ Folate deficiencies but I usually don't think of it as a top one.
Also SMOKING with a smaller stomach...BAD NEWS...way higher incidence of stomach cancer..in partial gastrectomy
As with MAJORITY of diseases/disorders....it takes quite a while to MANIFEST! ...yer pluggin along losing substantial weight livin la vida loca not payin attention to chronic.....10 20 30 years out...BAM!
I dunno...VSG ain't really all that new...yeah just became officially recognized Jan 1, 2010 w/ its own CPT code 43775.....but first WLS - VSG done sum 11-12 years ago.
Bougie in VSG
http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/carmelita/blog/tag/bougie+ in+vsg/
May wanna read some ASMBS reports on VSG or PubMed..see what they're findin...seems to still be vitamin/min deficiencies...last I looked. I read sumthin about Hypervitamintosis A..which I have been tryin to tweak...because I get so much from my diet n I feel it! so cut back on my multi to a few times a week vs. everyday now.
Im doing my Annual Labs this afternoon....hopefully I haven't jacked myself up too bad!
Much luck in your research Lev!
I'm very happy I revised, after 2 slips and a screwed up esophagus from the band, I can finally eat like a normal person (relatively speaking). No more pain and vomiting. The sleeve lets me eat all healthy foods in small portions and keeps me satisfied. It also got me to goal in less than 6 months!
Band to Sleeve Revision 3/1/11
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