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Yikes! So sorry...yes, that has to be miserable! I get it...I'm scared too....I guess I was nervous before my 1st sleeve and all the surgeries I've had but this (revision to bypass) just seems massive. Glad we have the support of others on here to go through it together :)
I see dr dyslin in arlington. He said more meds or revision to rny were my options. He insisted that the decision was solely up to me. Surgery had risks but meds might not help since i was so young being on so many meds for the reat of my life would impact my quality if life. I am apprihensive about sugery of course but i have to think of long terms effects of my decisions right now. I am afraid of waiting any longer and increasing damage to my esophagus. I have regurgited twice today before noon. It's not fun. Both options are scary. But it's the price i am paying for not taking better care of my body.
That's great...right around the corner! I can't imagine the reflux being that bad. Thankfully w/medication, mine is ok. But I know you can't take medication for life. Which doctor do you see?
I'm in arlington. My revision is on oct 11. I am still 40lbs from goal but am worried about complication from an rny. But there is no way im backing out bc this gerd is driving me insane. I mean everything gives me reflux it got to the point where i thought there was no way it was real. I convinced myself it had to be all in my head. Water shouldnt give you reflux. An empty stomach shouldnt give you reflux.
on 9/22/18 3:18 pm
Hi,
I would like to learn from your experiences on your revision from vsg to mgb.
I am considering to have a revision as yours, but like to know from persons that has already done.
I have almost regain all the lost weight in my vsg after 10 years.
HOpe you can share with me.
Awaiting your soonest comments
Just in case, my email is: [email protected]
Regards
Pedruel
My doc said he gets them approved by putting it as reflux surgery and not weight loss since it is to cure the gerd and primarily not for weight loss
on 9/22/18 11:19 am - Nanuet, NY
I am so sorry to hear all the pain you are in. My surgeon wants to do the revision to solve my Hernia. I have finally resigned myself to that fact. Now I am praying the insurance approves it.
I'm worried about vitamin absorbsion after my sleeve to rny revision. I am 2years out n complained to doc about really bad reflux and that i couldnt stand it. He was so sure that it would be no big deal. But of course sent me to an upper gi to make sure since the meds he put me on were not helping. Before i could even set the appointment he called me back saying that my iron levels and other vitamin levels were way too low and that i had to switch to vitamin patches. What worried me is that i was religious about taking my daily vitamins n they weren't working.
Well turns out that i have a hiatal hernia and my pouch healed small so the pressure created repairing the hernia will not resolve my issues do he gave me the options of more meds or revision. He kept repeating he wasnot pushing surgery but that being do young my quality of life would suffer with life long meds that might not help. Im 35.
Im scheduled for revision in oct. i did not want a rny bc it just sounded too scary. Im two years out from vsg n about 40lbs from goal but yeah not losing any more would be a ok if this reflux would stop im going insane. Im on two omeprezoles a day and an ulcer slurry twice a day too. Right now im hungry but afraid to eat it hurts so bad.
I have UHC and getting revision in oct. but they put it in to the insurance as stomach surgery not weight loss. They are doing it for reflux and a hernia im pretty nervous about it. I was not expecting or wanting another surgery.
