Stomach shape

[dawn4511]

I finally got my appointment with the surgeon to go over my swallow xray test. I go for balloon scope dilation on Mon.

However I'm shocked at the mess of what my stomach looks like.Instead of looking like a banana sleeve shape it's more like a scoop of ice cream on a cone. Instead of taking down the RNY pouch he took the pouch stitched it to a sleeve bottom. So where the sleeve and pouch meet it where the leak was and now the stricture.

Will it look better once the stricture is gone? Won't know until it's done. I asked him what happened to our agreement that the rny would be completely taken down he said it was better for me like this cause there was less cutting and rearranging to recover from.

[lisa813]

I am so sorry to hear all the trouble you are having. My heart goes out to you. I hope everything can be corrected and you never have problems again. What an awful thing to be happening.

[goodkel]

Sounds to me like he was just lazy. I would insist that he fix my sleeve to the normal banana shape when he goes in to fix the stricture. That pouch seems like reflux/esophageal cancer just waiting to happen.

I have only started noticing this happening recently, but more and more it seems that surgeons are going behind their patients' backs and giving them surgeries that they did not request.

Please everyone, in your own handwriting, write on any authorization for surgery EXACTLY what you want and that you are ONLY authorizing that. It is a shame that we must now take these measures to make sure that our wishes are followed when we are under anesthesia.

I am so sorry that this has happened to you Dawn. I hope he fixes this without requiring too much argument from you. You shouldn't have to pay a dime, either. This complication is entirely his fault.

[OnMyWay2Thin]

So sorry to hear this. I hope you feel much better after the stricture is fixed and that you hit no more bumps on your road to complete health!

Hang in there,
Kelly

[bboop]

I'm so sorry this happened to you. I agree with Kelly, you shouldn't have to pay a dime and it is the doc's fault.

I too, am angry at surgeons who are either lazy, incompetent or just plain stupid. For many of us we pay out of our own pockets for this surgery and we have such great expectations only to be saddled with complication after complication.

Put you big girl pants on and go in there and demand he do your stomach right. I too have a weird stomach and it's there because of the gastric stapling I had in the 80s. It doesn't cause me problems and to remove it I think it would cause more harm than good. I did have a weird stomach before I was resleeved and I'm so glad I had the resleeve done...I finally have a normal looking, banana shaped stomach.

Demand the best...it's for you after all.

[DSwitcher]

My Sleeve was a mess and the surgeon, MINIMALLY, adjusted it. I handwrote on the contract and he signed it. "Resleeve" can be as simple as a trim, and you can't really dictate specifics. They want to avoid any chance of bad stitches over old....Screwed my initial wt loss....Shaped like a hanging water balloon!

[goodkel]

Oct 4, 2014 12:12:30 GMT -5 DSwitcher said:

My Sleeve was a mess and the surgeon, MINIMALLY, adjusted it. I handwrote on the contract and he signed it. "Resleeve" can be as simple as a trim, and you can't really dictate specifics. They want to avoid any chance of bad stitches over old....Screwed my initial wt loss....Shaped like a hanging water balloon!

Your initial weight loss is just fine. It has barely been a month and you are in the process now of replenishing your glycogen stores. Twenty pounds in one month is GREAT!

Have you been measuring yourself? Inches are more accurate than the scale. The scale can lie.

[DSwitcher]

Yeah only one inch in the waist. Things are sliding from the chest downwards...lol