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To my supporters after my reverval...I can eat!!! - These past few days under my surgeons advice, I was told to add more solids each day to see if I could handle the transition. I was a nervous wreck when I made my first sandwich, I...

Home from having the roux n y reversed. -  I'm home and healing from my roux n y reversed on Tuesday. My new journey begins without having the staples sucking the life out of me. The ulcers, malnutrition, vitamin defiencie...

Updating my journey....reversal is scheduled! -  To make a long story shorter is harder than one can imagine, but here I am doing the best that I can to be informative and honest with my journey. More than two years I had the ro...

Keeping it real!!! -  Ya know i have been on this site since my surgery almost 2 yrs ago and I feel like a veteran when it comes to the board. I have asked questions, submitted my thoughts etc. I know ...

Revision due to ulcer????? -  I just had my 3rd dilation and surgeon said marginal ulcer woresened and I needed a revision....my weight is 113 lbs as of now and because I could barely keep foods down....damn u...

Marginal ulcer not healing!! Surgery in January... -  Well I had my 3rd EGD done today with news whether this good or bad news? Surgeon says has to do surgery in January since i was getting worse and the ulcer was not healing at all,...

Back to hospital on Friday!!! -  Here i go again!!!! Another EGD and now with Colonscopy...sounds like fun. When my surgeon finally told me that i had a marginal ulcer....failed to mention that! And now there has...

I love your honesty and purity. Thank you for putting the correct spin...

My ulcer is bringing me down!!!! -  As I stated before I was dilated last Thursday, damn ulcer is relentless. I'm on Nexium and carafate, I just added Pepto Bismol to the mix. I find the carafate gives me more diarr...

Two EGD's in 4 months? Sick of this. -  I'll just cut to the chase! 22 months post op-113lbs. I'm sick of being sick....I do good for a while and then between my ulcer and narrowing I have to be dialated to keep food do...

Anyone request a takedown? -  I am 2 yrs post op and wish that I could say without compications....but as it goes, I am nearing 100 lbs and can't seem to gain. The surgeon found a narrowing a couple months ago...

Gotta be honest...tired of all the complications! -  My friends, I don't want to be the downer here especially for those considering the surgery or setting up to have surgery. As it goes for me today, it seems there is always a ano...

Passage to my pouch was so narrow!! Got ballooned. -  Hey everyone,  I was scoped this morning and surgeon found out why couldn't stop throwing up...the passage to my pouch as I call it was so narrow and he also found an ulcer too. ...

Okay what's the issue with crushing my vitamins? -  Hello,  I've got a few questions for those that have been post-op longer than me...I'm post op 17 months. I went to my surgeon and he expressed to me that i wasn't getting the f...

Anyone have hyperthyrodism? -  I got my labs back yesterday was told I had an overactive thyroid and was recommended that I see the specialist to see  if medication is needed. My main complaint is fatigue, weig...

Reversal surgeons in MIchigan? Know of any? -  Well here's the latest saga in my journey since my bypass last Januuary, down to 104 lbs, very weak, barely eating, and when I do it's either comes out the bottom half or my upper...

One week after surgery. - Hi everyone,  I had my bypass 10/20/10 and just need some support these past days. Yesterday I started crying when my husband handed me my shake, I was overcome with depression, j...