Revision from Proximal RNY to Distal RNY

Long story short, my surgeon never informed me that he only bypassed 2 feet instead of 5-6. So i ended up getting Proximal when i wanted and NEEDED Distal!!!!!!!
I have over 200 pounds to lose, and a BMI over 56. 2 feet just isn't cutting it!

I'm already hitting plateaus, and I'm only a month out. Plus I'm able to eat large amounts of food without pain, and when i stick to the 1 ounce mark I'm starving! So i don't think my surgeon made my pouch small enough either!

How do I go about applying for a revision??? How do i contact my insurance, what paper work do i need?! I have no idea what to do, and I'm so distraught over this!!!!!

Please help me! It took me over 3 years to get this surgery, and i didn't even get what i wanted/needed. I don't want to wait another 3 years to get it fixed/ done right!

When did you have this done? I also have a lot to lose. My insurance will not pay for the switch so, RNY is what I will have Monday. It helped me to look at so many RNY folks who have lost 200 pounds. If you had this done recently why give up? It does work, people do lose big. Look at some major success stories, be encouraged :)

Okay, first of all: breathe. You are just a month out, so you have no idea how your body is really going to handle all of this. What is happening right now is NOT a "plateau," not by any definition. You are still in the healing-from-surgery phase. The signals your gut is sending your brain are still scrambled. What you can eat will very likely change quite a bit as the nerves get all healed and communicate more accurately with your brain.

You are not going to feel satisfied on an ounce of food. It is not normal for a human being to feel satisfied on a mouse sized portion of food. Your body is in total uproar over being deprived of almost all nutrition, and so you are feeling a ton of things right now. You need to give this some more time and see how things settle in as you heal more fully.

What you need right now more than anything else is WATER. Focus on excellent hydration. Your body can go a long time with next to no food, but even mild dehydration is very, very bad for you. So concentrate on one thing at a time, starting with getting in 64 oz. of water a day. When you eat, eat protein.

This will pass. In a few more months, life will look quite different. Then you can assess whether you're getting good mileage out of the procedure.

listen to Elizabeth. Plus, your nerves are still healing. you are able to eat more at a time right now because of that. Don't. Measure your food portions and stop

I guarantee in a few weeks your nerves will heal and you will feel more restriction.j

your body has been through a lot. you need to give what you have a try and heal from your surgery.

revisions are more difficult and harder on the body. give it a year and see where you are.

hang in there

judi

Whoa!  Stop and smell the roses already!  EVERYONE hits a stall around the first month out from surgery.  Stalls happen periodically.  There's nothing you can do about that.  Your body just needs resting places on its way down.  Most of us ate a lot more than 1 ounce at a time after surgery.  Usually a couple of ounces.  I could eat at least 8 ounces of soup at a time at about a month out.  Give your surgery a chance to work.  If you haven't lost enough in the first year or so, then contact your doctor about a revision.  They don't bypass a lot so that you don't end up with vitamin deficiencies and malnutrition.  Relax and enjoy the ride.  It will have a few bumps in the road.

Linda