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Wanted to let everyone know that has had the DS like me. As you know I have had a lot of problems..

Well they have found out that I have Barretts Esophagus which is sort of a pre Cancer in the esophagus where it meet the remainder of the stomac

Is this possible? I am very seriously considering revision because of years of malabsoption. To the point of malnutrition. Lost my legs because of poor supervision. A doctor who saved my life at that point thinks I need a revision after 17 years. He sa

I watched a YT video and it explained the difference in the newer DS and the one I had. It showed how my older one the digestive enzymes enter the intestine at 75cm the new one they enter at approx 3M right next to where I used to have a stomach that h

Looking at having a revision in my BPD-DS because after 17 years I am not absorbing enough. He said what the revision surgery does is introduce the digestive enzymes further up the intestine so that my food will be better broken down so I will absorb m

Found out you can click on my name and see the photo..

Some of you may remember me since I am probably the most severe problem case of the BPD-DS around. I am at 134 now. Can't gain but very slowly keep losing more. The doctor I spoke of before is going to do a revision. He said it is not a really difficul

Well just to let you all know we are both still alive. We are both still anemic, I am still 140 my wife has gained a little to 143 from 130. She has had iron infusions I haven't she has developed osteoporosis, we both of course have low HGB, my legs ha

Well we got my wifes op rept from 2001 2 months after mine. It is completely different. He told us he always removed the gall bladder. Mine he did hers there is no mention. My common limb is 75cm hers is 100. My ecentric limb is 325 hers is 200. She ha

Her hemoglobin was low hematocrit was low

Both of us are anemic and are starting on some iron. Her Iron Binding was down to 2% but another number was high. Our PCP wants her on 2 iron tabs a day but didn't specify. We were going to get the Tender Iron from Vita Lady but now we are wondering wh

I am not trying to scare anyone if we had this done by a good surgeon with knowledge they have today things probably would have been different but in 2001 this was really new and our surgeon did not explain what we needed to do to keep ourselves health

Well we haven't been here lately and don't know if any of you know our story. This has been the worst thing we have ever done in our lives. Both of us are getting older now and have severe health problems. I have had to have my legs amputated what got