I have been on this forum since 2003. I can recall one person *****vised to RNY and is at about normal BMI. She works very hard at diet and exercise. The weight loss is not from the revision, although that did help her GERD.

The usual 20 pound of revision weight loss is from the pre-op liquid diet and is typical of any revision. Most regain that once they heal from the surgery and go back to their normal eating. After weight loss surgery there is bounceback regain in year three of approximately 20 pounds. By year five about 50% of people have regained about 40 to 50 pounds. By year ten, regain is even higher. After the effect of surgery wears off, the only way to maintain weight loss is fewer calories in and more calories burned.

The 100 pound or more weight loss that follows the initial surgery is a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. It does not happen with revisions.

I am a 51 year old professional. I had wls August 2014 (sleeve). My lowest wieght was 180. My highest wieght was 291. (Dang I was definitely a Big girl).Currently , I am 235 with a BMI 40.30.

I am moving forward towards revision sugery. However, I confused about only lossing 20 pounds postoperative. Is there any female on this form who had achieved a nomal BMI after revision?

Hi I'm in the process of trying to do a revision and did the dye test and I think he said my pouch wasn't stretched. But I have gained all my weight back ams plus. Was your pouch stretched and what option did you go with!

I've heard horror stories about some of the Facebook bariatric groups, so I've never joined them. I've heard there's a lot of bad advice posted on some of them that never gets corrected, and there are a lot of people who seem to like to push the envelope and get cheered on from some of the others. No thanks. I've always found Obesity Help to be full of helpful info, and there are a lot of vets on here who are good about correcting misinformation. I wi**** was more active than it was a few years ago (I think a lot of people are doing the FB groups now instead of traditional internet forums), but I still find it really helpful.

nausea and vomiting aren't that common after the first few weeks when you're healing and just figuring out your food intolerances. You learn pretty quickly what sets it off. I don't think I vomit any more now than I did before I had surgery. I will if I eat too much or too quickly - but then again, you learn your limits pretty quickly after going through that a couple of times!

dumping happens to about 30% of us. I've never dumped and many of us on here never have, either. If you're one of the unfortunate ones who dumps (although some people would consider that "fortunate", since it keeps them from binging on sweets), you can avoid it by limiting your sugar intake (which we all should be doing regardless)

Low vitamin levels aren't very common if you keep on top of your supplements (and you HAVE to keep on top of your supplements if you have RNY). The one exception to that is iron. Some people (a minority, but still) don't absorb iron well from oral supplements, so they have to get occasional infusions. Most of us can absorb it from tablets just fine, though.

diarrhea isn't common with RNY - but constipation is. It's very common with sleeve, too. It's due to the high protein diet plus the iron and calcium supplements. Many of us take a capful of Miralax every day to stay on top of it.

I only hear about dehydration issues from people who are recently out of surgery. That's why they really stress meeting your fluids requirement - even moreso than meeting your protein requirement - during those first few weeks post-op. Dehydration can land you back in the hospital. From people further out, though - I don't remember seeing any posts on that. It seems to be an issue for people who are very recently out of surgery (not all people - but whenever I've seen posts on that issue, it's always from people who are very recently out of surgery).