babybee3184
Here we go again :)
Sep 18, 2013
Been a long time...Experieced regain. I maintained my RNY weight loss for several years. Has surgery March of 2008 and kept all of my weight off (except 10 lbs.) until November 2012. Never made it to my personal goal weight but I meant the satistical weight loss percentage. My lowest was 172.4 My maintenance was 180-184.
I don't know exactly what happened to be 100% honest. I need to forgive myself though b/c I feel angry that this happened. In less than a year I went from 183 to 216.4. Everytime I went on vacation I gained 6 or 7 lbs. Usually when I would return home, the weight would come off from diet and exercise alone and just by following "the rules." It wasn't happening! I felt at a total loss. I felt hungry all the time. I felt satisfied with my meals for about 2 hours or so at the longest and then BAM, hunger, like I never even ate anything.
Had an EGD done and it was found my pouch was relatively small. "borderline dilated" but nothing significant. However, my stoma had stretched to 18 mm. Weight loss is best at 10 mm or smaller.
Through several months of research I decided to do what Carnie Wilson did... The BOB or band over bypass on 9/13/13. It's scary as I never thought I would be in a place to have a second WLS but here I am. I started at 216.4 and 4 days post op I am approximately 207.4 lbs. This is also after being on a 2 week liquid diet.
I'm still scared as the band seems so controversial but it was the best decision I could handle at this time. DS has the best outcomes but much more serious, esp. for a revision from Roux-en-Y. If I could do it all over again...I would 100% have done the DS. BUT...this is what I have to work with and its what I am doing. I am experiencing gas pain and left shoulder pain. I am terrified of the shoulder pain right now and praying its just gas pain. There are a small group of banders that have left shoulder pain referred from the vagus nerve...Which is different that Gas pain. And i just cant live with nerve pain everyday.
Praying for healing and more a good chance at life and health again.
