10/31/2014 Update:

Oct 31, 2014

So here it is 3 years later than my last post. Not sure if too many read this but here is my latest update....

Two years ago I was still maintaining my goal weight of 175, by then Im 8 yrs out from my RNY. Then out of the blue I decided to stop smoking. Long story short over time I started gaining weight. I started watching my carbs and eating better because we all start going back to our old ways. Nothing was helping with slowing the weight gain so I bought an eliptical. By now I have a nice treadmill, bike and eliptical. I worked out dilligently putting over 130 miles on the bike and 25 miles on the treadmill in one month, but to no avail I gained weight. On my 10th anniversary of my original RNY I went back to my surgeon for a check up. Naturally his concerns were stated and he asked me to go have a EGD done, After having it done I found out the port going out of my pouch had not only lost its elasticity but there were 2 ulcers found. It was explained to me that this port enlargement was not allowing food to stay in my pouch and thus going straight into my lower intestine creating major abdominal fat to build. It was also explained that this (loosing elasticity at the exit port) is showing up more and more to those who are 8 to 10 years out from surgery.

The recomendation was to either leave it be and treat the ulcers or have a revision of which would do away with the ulcers and reinstate the original RNY. So we started with the whole insurance process and I went back into a refresher course for nutrition. I have since been approved out of Medical Necessity due to the ulcers and my BMI being already up to 38. I was contacted today by my Bariatric Center and have scheduled a RNY Revision on December 29th, 2014.

The prep has changed some since my first surgery and I had to give the whole thing a very deep thought. I am resolved that I had gained so much of my health in doing the first RNY and put my life so much on a healthy course that these last couple of years were very obvious how off course it went. I am resolved to continue to fight for my health and continue my Journey that I started 10 years ago.

For those of you that are struggling with weight gain after years of being healthy I totally recommend you going back to your Bariatric Doctor and state your concerns. Now not everyone I understand has this issue with the stretching of the exit port and in the EGD it was also noted that my pouch had only changed size from an egg to an orage so this furthermore strengthened my resolve that I had not sabbotaged my tool (RNY). I was totally beginning to think I had faild my Surgery and was beginning to feel down about being a failure. Please dont let yourself get to this point without consulting your Doctor.

I will continue to add more as time goes by on this blog and if anyone would like to contact me please feel free to do so at [email protected].  

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