Why DS over RNY?

I am two years out and have never had diarrhea (except for the first couple days after surgery, when my body was "waking up") and I do NOT have smelly farts. Well, okay, they smell, but not like before my DS and they are waay less frequent than before my DS. I now fart 1-2 times a day, and it's usually late at night, after I have carbed it up quite a bit.

Gas and diarhhea happen with any surgery and every non-surgery person, if you eat the wrong food. It is controllable by making good choices.

Nicolle

Let me get this right, with DS you can take an ALEVE pain reliever? 

And with the stats you have, with the DS, you will AT LEAST lose 60% of your body weight?

But how many times a year you have to go to the doctors office to check your blood work????

That is correct. With the DS, you can take Aleve, Ibuprofen, Aspirin, etc.

The average weight loss from the DS (according to that chart) is 60-80% and that holds steady for 10+ years. Of course, being an average, there are some people who fall below and some who exceed it. But those numbers are far better than any other WLS procedure out there.

ETA: I have to check my bloodwork at 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months and then once a year unless there is some reason to do it more frequently.

Okay, now that make sense. I was alittle concern with always checking your blood work for the rest of your life.  Now I get mine check of course at least once a year with my annual, but I can understand getting it checked more often right after the procedure.

You are suppossed to check your blood work for the rest of your life if you have the RNY.

"You will at least lose 60% of your body weight?"

No. First off all WLS is measured in terms of excess body weight lost (EWL). So in my case, I was 400 lbs, which put me just over 200lbs overweight. EWL of 60% means I would lose 120 lbs (not 60% of my total body weight).

Second, there is no guarantee that any specific person will lose any amount. Statistically, EWL is best with the DS--but there are always outliers, people who do everything right and still don't lose as much as everyone else.

Chad to get the over 200lbs did you come up with that number.  Or are you saying if you weight 400 pounds X 60% will give you 240 pounds.  How did you get the 200 pounds?  I see how you came up with 120, 200 X 60% = 120 pounds weight loss.

He weighed 400 pounds.  He should weigh 200 pounds.  Therefore, he has 200 pounds of Excess Weight.  If he were to lose 60% of his Excess Weight, then he'd lose 120 pounds.  If he were to lose 100% of his Excess Weight, he'd lose 200 pounds.  (100% EWL)

I weighed 290 pounds.  I should weight 155 pounds.  I have 135 pounds EW.  If I lose 60% (which I'm almost there at just shy of 4 months), then I'll lose 81 pounds.  I plan on losing 100% EWL, though!  ;+)

I'm not Chad, but here's how you can calculate this for yourself. You take your current weight and subtract your goal weight (usually whatever weight would give you a normal BMI). That number = your excess body weight. You can expect to lose an average of 60-80% of that number.

For example, I started off weighing 320 lbs. My goal weight is 150, as that would give me a BMI under 25. That means I had 170 lbs excess body weight. Losing 60% of that would mean losing 102 lbs. Losing 80% of that would mean losing 136 lbs. I'm only 4.5 months out and I've already lost 93 lbs, so I'm very hopeful I might get to 100% EWL.

Oh Wow, totally excellent and hopeful.  Did you lose any weight just before the surgery, and how much if so?