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Thank you :) My ENT Is the one who diagnosed my apnea because I was having daytime choking episodes! I have had 3 doctors recommend WLS to me.
Osteo seems to be pretty common. That's not something I ever worried about, but I'm learning I will have a different set of worries after DS. I just pray I don't have to take my current worries with me and then add the new ones. There are no guarantees, right?
Jen - I can't talk to your diabetes (fortunately I never became diabetic), but I can talk to the sleep apnea. I had life threatened sleep apnea that was diagnosed several years before I even thought about WLS. It was actually the pulmonologist who first suggested WLS. I also had a co-worker who had just had the RNY and was doing great. I was going to go that route, but her doctor wouldn't take my insurance at the time (thank goodness). My co-worker started gaining about a year after her surgery (she lost about 100 pounds). I did my research and discovered the DS - I knew immediately it was the right surgery for me. Within 6 months of the DS, I was completely off my c-pap and two years out, I had the pacemaker they put in removed.
I don't have chronic diarrhea. You learn how your body reacts to food and you plan accordingly. I have battled some deficiencies - I take lots of D3 but my numbers are good. I have battled iron deficiency anemia, but infusions take care of that. I won't lie - I have osteoperosis. I blame 50% on the DS and 50% on genetics. I also don't take any prescription meds (I do take OTC prilosec once a day but never had a real issue with GERD).
I was 46 when I had the DS (first WLS) -- I'm 62 now. My starting weight was 320 (but I had probably been as high as 340) and this morning I weighed 153.
I wouldn't change anything about the last 16 years.
Janet in Leesburg
DS 2/25/03
Hazem Elariny
-175
Neither do it. I haven't "dieted" in 17 years. I eat the way I eat for the DS, and if I need to make adjustments periodically, so be it. It's usually cutting back on carbs (or making better carb choices - complex vs simple) for a while until things get back to normal.
Janet in Leesburg
DS 2/25/03
Hazem Elariny
-175
I tried that and got nowhere. The person who answered had no idea, so I asked her if there was anyone else who might be able to help. She put me on hold and came back and said that they do SIPS but that's all they know.
on 7/12/19 11:19 pm
I'm in the NY area and went to Dr. Mitch Roslin at Lennox Hill Hospital. He has done a thousand plus DS and SIPs procedures, and recommends the SIPs in most cases due to the lower risks. Many of the original DS posters on this site are also former patients.
Even if you are not in the NY area, you can call his office and ask for a recommendation for a qualified surgeon closer to you.
Have you been tested for H-pyloric?
'Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid insideways ... half a bottle of vodka in one hand ... a fat cigar in the other... a body thoroughly used up and totally worn out ... and screaming;'whooooohooooo what a ride'!' HW/251 SW/242 CW/134 GW/140
WOW!! 117# Gone
Lost it and then gained it back. Most of the regain people start gaining back around the 2 year mark. One of them started out fat, lost it with surgery, gained it all back, lost it AGAIN, and than gained it all back again.
My theory is that so little is bypassed in a standard proximal RNY that by the second year the body has adapted to the bypass and the regain begins. At least that has been my observation.
Patty L
I'm curious to know of the people in your office who had bypass, did they lose their weight and gain it back? If so, were they able to keep it off for any length of time? Or did they not lose much to begin with? Obviously it's up to the person to keep it off but I've seen SO MANY conflicting statistics on long term weight loss for bypass so I'm just curious.
