Belated 21 year post rny/12 year post rny reversal update

Dec 14, 2022

Hi! 
My rny anniversary was 12-5. 

Unlike most of my wls peers, while I still remain on here to support patients from ideal to catastrophic outcomes, I don't celebrate either my gastric bypass or my reversal of it. 

As I've said before, I don't regret that I had bariatric surgery, like I did for quite a few years before and the year of my reversal in 2010. 

But in my case I wouldn't have it again, either. 

My weight fluctuates a lot, without being thin, like I was over over 7 years post rny, I was the heaviest I had ever been in my entire life by Summer of 2021, I went to lose like 20 lbs from then to April 2022 and then another 40. 

So I'm 60 lbs from my all time heaviest (43 from heaviest prior to rny) and 65 lbs from lightest. 

I'd like to lose 20-30 more lbs and while I can't be all obsessive about weight, I'm at least happy to be in onederland again and to try and stay at my weight now if Ican't lose anymore (I have severe hypothyroidism, allergic to synthroid) it's not like I can eat a ton of food being reversed, and it's harder in the last 3 years, as from 2010 to 2019 I had gastroparesis from reversal and then I got cellulitis in my face and the antibiotics left me with c-diff for the last 3 years which I'm on and off asytomatic but terrified of needing another antibiotic again. 

Again, all of journies vary. I'm biologically related to one of the healthiest, kept 95 percent of weight off, exercises athletically (like I used to in da olden days 16 years ago and went to school to be a cpt but was too sick by the time I got certification)  who can eat anything 20 year post op who only had to pick up intense exercise a little over 10 years ago and never has to think about having bariatric surgery which would be my sister who had rny 10 months after I did.

My father had rny in 1981 when I was 12, was revised by my surgeon the day befor my sister's rny and his revision cleared up a lot of adhesions and it actually made it easier for him to eat so he never lost weight and he at almost 77 is SMO but he can do a lot of things including eat way more than I can but having bariatric surgery definitely saved and prolonged his life and slowed down the morbidities due to his SMO status that he didn't get hit with morbidities that he didn't have a family history of until just a few years ago. 

My mom has always been a healthy weight, my other sister (there's 3 girls in our family and we are 18 months or so apart) has never been more than overweight but has to monitor closely what she eats and exercise a ton to be super thin and fit, way more careful than my rny sister has to be. 

Point in all of this, is we all vary, 3 out of 5 of us in my family had drastically different long term outcomes post bariatric surgery all of the quite atypical and my non bariatric surgery sister has to work harder than my bariatric sister to stay thin and fit and in my case and it's not about not taking responsibility but again a lot of my weight fluctuations are NOT within the realm of my control and again not looking for dieting advice. 

Just trying to give an update, as I've been a part of this community for so long (over 21 years) and I do try when I can to provide support whenever I can, but it's not in my best interest to remain superglued to all the bariatric surgery communities even though it's not like my reversal "jumped me out" so to speak out of being a wls peep. 

Peace... 

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