RNY to DS???
Me me me!!! I did it!
How many reasons do you want? I hated the RNY, I hated the dumping, I hated the food sticking in my stoma, I hated having to chew everything to much, I hated not being able to drink with my meals, I hated not being able to drink milk, I hated not being able to ever have a piece of cake & ice cream, I hated feeling deprived all the time because I was always on a diet trying to keep the weight off.
I HATED THE DAMN POUCH!!!!!!!!
I love, love, love my DS. I can eat anything I want to without dumping, food never gets stuck and I don't have to diet to lose or keep the weight off.
If you want to read all about my 28 years of living with the RNY pouch and my revision to DS send me a PM and I'll make you a friend and you can check out my profile.
Here's a link to my 1 year out of surgery post:
www.obesityhelp.com/forums/DS/4024505/One-year-ago-today-who -could-have-known/action,replies/topic_id,4024505/page,1/
How many reasons do you want? I hated the RNY, I hated the dumping, I hated the food sticking in my stoma, I hated having to chew everything to much, I hated not being able to drink with my meals, I hated not being able to drink milk, I hated not being able to ever have a piece of cake & ice cream, I hated feeling deprived all the time because I was always on a diet trying to keep the weight off.
I HATED THE DAMN POUCH!!!!!!!!
I love, love, love my DS. I can eat anything I want to without dumping, food never gets stuck and I don't have to diet to lose or keep the weight off.
If you want to read all about my 28 years of living with the RNY pouch and my revision to DS send me a PM and I'll make you a friend and you can check out my profile.
Here's a link to my 1 year out of surgery post:
www.obesityhelp.com/forums/DS/4024505/One-year-ago-today-who -could-have-known/action,replies/topic_id,4024505/page,1/
(LOL....I swear, it must be something in the water regarding this question!) Not directed at you Creole. There have been a lot of them this week.
I had an RNY to DS revision in August. In 1999 I weighed in at 430 pounds and had a distal RNY. During this time I learned that I could not eat countless foods because they made me dump **** cream, anything malted, high fat items, high sugar items). After one year I started having terrible stomach aches eventually leading to me throwing up blood. I had a marginal ulcer (common with RNY). I was put on Nexium in 2000 and have been on it since. I tried several times during my RNY years to get off of the Nexium, but the pains in my stomach always came back. I ended up becoming very anemic because I didn't absorb iron. I had to get monthly b-12 shots too because I no longer absorbed b-12. In 2003 my mom passed away and I fell into a deep grief stricken depression. I basically gave up eating the RNY way or caring about what I ate. I used food for comfort. After a year I had gained 25 pounds and decided that I needed to get back to basics and start eating right. I gained another 10 pounds in a short period of time. No matter what diet I did or changed how or what I ate I continued to gain weight and over the next 5 years gained 92 pounds. My weight was 302. A number I thought I would never see again, yet I feared if I didn't do something that my weight would climb even further. Even though I lost 220 pounds I never got my weight below 200. My maintenance weight with my RNY was 210.
This past August I revised to a DS. I've lost just about 90 pounds or just about all the weight that I had gained post RNY. I will be six months DS post op on Feb. 10 and will be more than 50% of my excess weight loss (currently I am 59% ewl). I actually am beginning to believe that I might get to a normal BMI or at least to my goal. This is something I never saw with my RNY.
If I had known what I now know about DS I can say with confidence that I would likely not have had an RNY. Little do doctors tell you, but after about 4 to 5 years malabsorptions is regained in the bypassed intestines, resulting in weight gain. It's a struggle to keep it under control if you can. They tell you that you will or can gain 10%-20% of your lost weight, but what most doctors don't tell you is that if you start out as a super mobidly obese person the potential for weight gain is close to 20% - 50% of your lost weight. I was up near the 50% mark.
As far as how I feel about it, it's like having to relearn how and what you can eat when you revise. I was 10 years older and had complications and even six months out still have eating problems. I'm not saying I LOVE my DS like many do, I'm saying that we are learning to live with one another. None the less I have lost 88 pounds and puts me just 2 pounds from losing all the weight that I gained. The only place for me to go at this point is down the scale!
Maddie
I had an RNY to DS revision in August. In 1999 I weighed in at 430 pounds and had a distal RNY. During this time I learned that I could not eat countless foods because they made me dump **** cream, anything malted, high fat items, high sugar items). After one year I started having terrible stomach aches eventually leading to me throwing up blood. I had a marginal ulcer (common with RNY). I was put on Nexium in 2000 and have been on it since. I tried several times during my RNY years to get off of the Nexium, but the pains in my stomach always came back. I ended up becoming very anemic because I didn't absorb iron. I had to get monthly b-12 shots too because I no longer absorbed b-12. In 2003 my mom passed away and I fell into a deep grief stricken depression. I basically gave up eating the RNY way or caring about what I ate. I used food for comfort. After a year I had gained 25 pounds and decided that I needed to get back to basics and start eating right. I gained another 10 pounds in a short period of time. No matter what diet I did or changed how or what I ate I continued to gain weight and over the next 5 years gained 92 pounds. My weight was 302. A number I thought I would never see again, yet I feared if I didn't do something that my weight would climb even further. Even though I lost 220 pounds I never got my weight below 200. My maintenance weight with my RNY was 210.
This past August I revised to a DS. I've lost just about 90 pounds or just about all the weight that I had gained post RNY. I will be six months DS post op on Feb. 10 and will be more than 50% of my excess weight loss (currently I am 59% ewl). I actually am beginning to believe that I might get to a normal BMI or at least to my goal. This is something I never saw with my RNY.
If I had known what I now know about DS I can say with confidence that I would likely not have had an RNY. Little do doctors tell you, but after about 4 to 5 years malabsorptions is regained in the bypassed intestines, resulting in weight gain. It's a struggle to keep it under control if you can. They tell you that you will or can gain 10%-20% of your lost weight, but what most doctors don't tell you is that if you start out as a super mobidly obese person the potential for weight gain is close to 20% - 50% of your lost weight. I was up near the 50% mark.
As far as how I feel about it, it's like having to relearn how and what you can eat when you revise. I was 10 years older and had complications and even six months out still have eating problems. I'm not saying I LOVE my DS like many do, I'm saying that we are learning to live with one another. None the less I have lost 88 pounds and puts me just 2 pounds from losing all the weight that I gained. The only place for me to go at this point is down the scale!
Maddie
HW (pre RNY) 430 / HW (pre DS) 302 / SW 288 /
Lowest weight 157 / CW 161 / GW 150
"I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight"
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