Trash Talk At Sleep Study

So I go for my sleep study and the tech asks " Why are you having a sleep study today" I tell him I need it for my RNY . WELL he had a lot to say !!! I was told that 90% of the ppl they do sleep studies on who are having the bypass come back in a year or two later bigger than ever. ( post op) WTH???? Can this be true??

No, it is not true.  Although SOME people do regain a relatively significant amount of weight, very few regain all of it, let alone gaining all of it PLUS more, and they certainly don't do it in just a year or two! Think about it logically... The first year is all spent LOSING the weight in the first place.  Ignore the  tech.  He is talking out of his rear end.

Lora

I doubt that his 90% statistic is fact based (it's rubbish actually), but I think it's entirely possible that some of his former RNY "patients" come back after a *few* years not having achieved or maintained a good weight loss.

This surgery is just a tool and the average excess weight loss (EWL) for RNY, maintained at 5 years, is 50%. The few long term vets (5 years +) that hang out here are exceptions rather than the rule - most of us have maintained near 100% EWL and I don't believe that is a coincidence ...

No WLS has 100% (or anywhere near) success rate ... It is very much down to the individual to achieve a good EWL and even more so to maintain it!

There may be a modicum of truth to his statement but it really probably is just a modicum!

I think the tech may have a vendetta against surgery and has probably made that statistic up

I think it would be biologically, physiologically impossible to have RNY and one or two years later be even bigger than before surgery.  I'm not sure even one patient could do that, but certainly not 90% of all the pre-op RNY patients they do sleep studies on.

I would complain to his supervisor.  He has no business commenting on your surgery at all, and certainly should not be lying to patients about the success rate of any surgery - and that is absolutely a lie.

Thank You!! WOW that scared me . I understand this is only going to be a tool and not a cure all.

Nope. Perhaps those *****turn are the ones *****fuse to follow the rules, but that's hardly a random sample.

When I woke up the morning after my RNY, the roommate I had the first night in the hospital was getting ready to leave (she'd been there months with difficulties with her revision WLS). Just after she left, the cleaning lady came in, and she was this size 0-is-too-large type of person, and she sat there and bad-mouthed WLS patients for a good twenty minutes. "There always back here within a few months with awful complications, big fat stupid lazy cows...." and on and on and on.

NOT nice to hear when you're not even 24 hours out of surgery.

It's part of the whole "information and ignorance curve" when it comes to Weight Loss Surgery. Naturally thin people (some of them) seem to have this idea that fat people have their mouths permanently attached to some food trough, and aare disgusting people who are lazy as hell. They just don't understand how it can be.

Today I think this was brought home to me pretty sharply. One of my former students -- involved in sports each semester -- and when I saw her today (she graduated 2 years ago, so this is four years after she was my student) and she looked like she was pushing 220 lbs. And where did I see her? Still helping out with the swim team that she was a member of all four years of her high school. I know she was diagnosed with PCOS during her sophomore year of high school.

Is this super-athlete deserving of the kind of scorn that these skinny-minnies like to dish out? NOPE! I hate stereotypes.

 When I went for my sleep study the tech trashed talked alot.  I went because I truly have sleep apnea have had it for years.  I didn't do it as part of WLS work upI did it because my doctor said go have it done...stop putting it off!!  I was a walking zombie.  Sorry got of subject.  The tech trashed talked basically telling me that if people meaning me would just loose weight people meaning me would not have sleep apnea.  I will say losing weight has helped I still have sleep apnea but not as bad.  I think they think they get paid to talk out their....  

They don't get paid to talk like that.  I imagine their supervisors would be unhappy if they knew they were talking like that.  That's why I wish patients would report them.

 I filed a complaint against them with my insurance...I file a quality of care complaint.  Their quality of care was lacking and therefore I said something.  I had to re-do my sleep study I requested to have my repeat sleep study done with a different tech.  I asked the 2nd tech about the first tech...if he was always rude like he was rude to me.  The 2nd tech said that the first tech had to go on a personal leave of absence telling me that he had some issues and was tired from working different departments in the hospital...my second study went well.  My doctor gave me a sleep aid and the tech said lets get this mask on and the rest was a wonderful dream.  LOL!!