Pondering why the RNY is considered the "Gold Standard"?

girlygirl1313
on 10/11/10 7:03 am - Davidson, NC
 I'm posting this here cause I don't want to start a MB flame war, but seriously, as I experience this awesome DS life, I wonder ... what or whom proclaimed the RNY to be the 'gold standard' of WLS?  Seriously, it's like a joke.  DS and even VSG are better surgeries than the RNY.  Why are insurance companies so RNY happy?

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on 10/11/10 7:31 am
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bookfaerie
on 10/11/10 7:35 am
 ROTFLMAO Yep. "Gold Standard" is accounting terminology, not medical terminology. 

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Larissa P.
on 10/11/10 7:33 am - Denton, TX
My doctor thinks people aren't compliant enough with the post-DS nutrition requirements and that dumping is good incentive to eat right.
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_Leslie_
on 10/11/10 7:39 am - Franklin, WI
i agree with the fact that some ppl aren't compliant enough and/or have the mental abilities to advocate for their own health.

but dumping is a positive reinforcement??  if you're a masochist!
                           
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Renfairewench
on 10/11/10 9:26 am
I used to dump when I had my RNY and to be honest it wasn't much of a deterrent for me to stop eating whatever made me dump. There are two exceptions to that though. Dumping on ice cream was 50/50. Sometimes I did and sometimes I didn't, that is until I had a particularly bad dumping episode. After that I just decided that ice cream wasn't;t worth it.   The second thing I dumped and had a really horrible experience with was malt. Anything malted. Malted drinks, malted milk, malted milk balls, that sort of thing. I would get these stomach gas pains that were so bad I swear one time I almost went to the hospital. Outside of those items dumping was more like 45 minutes of inconvenience and then it was over, I'd get diarrhea and I'd go on eating whatever. 

For me, the worst part about my RNY was having reactive hypoglycemia. I had passed out several times.

 

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"Just Elizabeth "
on 10/11/10 7:04 pm - Houston, TX

But the numbers don't make that a logical conclussion. Only about 30% of RNYers dump.


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yes4Jess
on 10/11/10 7:49 am - somewhere, MI
right before getting wheeled out for surgery my surgeon asked me if we'd talked abou the bypass... talk about freaking me out!  I was like oh **** Id better wake up with a DS! LOL  He said because I have such bad reflux....  IM sure there are some reasons rny could be better for some people.
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Mommy2006
on 10/11/10 12:03 pm
 My Dr wanted me to consider RNY for stomach issues/reflux/etc, too! Go figure.
But admitted DS was better considering my weight.
 
MollyBH
on 10/11/10 8:13 am - Appomattox, VA

If the RNY is the gold standard, then the DS is the platinum standard.

Molly

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