Guest guest Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 , I had lapband surgery May 2004. I am very happy and though the weight loss has been slow. I am half way to my goal I would not change a thing. I have not had any of the nutritional or malnutrition problems of gastric bypass patients. I would seriously check out ossg-weightloss-surgery-gone-wrong group on . It will give you the low down and ALL the negatives of RNY, VGB and many more different surgeries. I am getting over cytokine storm which attacked my lungs. My GP says its just one of those things people get and mine was worst due to my auto-immune disease. My rheummy however says this is a side effect of gastric bypass( which I did not have and my stupid rheummy lumps all weightloss surgery procedures into one). He also says there are many documented cases of those after gastric bypass surgery develop auto-immune diseases. I was doing some reading and apparently is the bypassed portion of the the bowel and the change in digestion and how the body handles the bacteria that cause problems. Anyway...if I had it all over to do again I would definitely chose lap-band. I have no problems with mal-nutrition, neuropathy, osteoporosis, loss or teeth, vomiting, bowel obstructions, stoma strictures or diarrhea. Or the constant need to B-12 shots and tons of lab work. Please do your homework. Many of my friends chose RNY and are dying slowly...I won't go into gory details but check out that group. Those are real people. Also do some research on the bariatric programs in Europe. They do gastric bypass procedures but after the patient is complete with weight loss they reverse them...because they know people can not live a long time like that. Good luck on your decision. Toni In a message dated 4/19/2006 9:03:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time, writes: From: " Faith " fmt2002@... Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:29pm(PDT) Subject: Re: Roux-en-Y .. I have.. Had RNY in sept 2004 and came down with RA/ SLE? in Decemeber 2004. I have compared notes with a few other with automimmune problems.. both pre and post RNY. A few people have gotten worse post RNY..some have remained the same... others like myself developed autoimmune issues after. I don't think Weightloss surgery is as helpful with autoimmune diseases as it is with High blood pressure, diabetes, osteoarthritis etc... just my opinion. I wish there would be some studies concerning this. Faith > > Hello to all: > Has anyone with arthritis had roux-en-y gastric > bypass for obesity? If so, what were your results and > would you do it again? > Blessings, > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Thank you so much for your honesty. I will research what you have said. Hugs, --- aclavern33@... wrote: > > , > I had lapband surgery May 2004. I am very happy and > though the weight loss > has been slow. I am half way to my goal I would not > change a thing. I have > not had any of the nutritional or malnutrition > problems of gastric bypass > patients. I would seriously check out > ossg-weightloss-surgery-gone-wrong group > on . It will give you the low down and ALL > the negatives of RNY, VGB > and many more different surgeries. > > I am getting over cytokine storm which attacked my > lungs. My GP says its > just one of those things people get and mine was > worst due to my auto-immune > disease. My rheummy however says this is a side > effect of gastric bypass( > which I did not have and my stupid rheummy lumps all > weightloss surgery > procedures into one). He also says there are many > documented cases of those after > gastric bypass surgery develop auto-immune diseases. > I was doing some reading > and apparently is the bypassed portion of the the > bowel and the change in > digestion and how the body handles the bacteria that > cause problems. > > Anyway...if I had it all over to do again I would > definitely chose lap-band. > I have no problems with mal-nutrition, neuropathy, > osteoporosis, loss or > teeth, vomiting, bowel obstructions, stoma > strictures or diarrhea. Or the > constant need to B-12 shots and tons of lab work. > Please do your homework. Many > of my friends chose RNY and are dying slowly...I > won't go into gory details > but check out that group. Those are real people. > Also do some research on > the bariatric programs in Europe. They do gastric > bypass procedures but after > the patient is complete with weight loss they > reverse them...because they > know people can not live a long time like that. > > Good luck on your decision. > > Toni > > > In a message dated 4/19/2006 9:03:40 P.M. Central > Daylight Time, > writes: > > From: " Faith " fmt2002@... > Date: Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:29pm(PDT) > Subject: Re: Roux-en-Y > > .. I have.. Had RNY in sept 2004 and came down > with RA/ SLE? in > Decemeber 2004. I have compared notes with a few > other with automimmune > problems.. both pre and post RNY. A few people have > gotten worse post > RNY..some have remained the same... others like > myself developed > autoimmune issues after. I don't think Weightloss > surgery is as helpful > with autoimmune diseases as it is with High blood > pressure, diabetes, > osteoarthritis etc... just my opinion. I wish there > would be some > studies concerning this. > > Faith > > > > > > Hello to all: > > Has anyone with arthritis had roux-en-y gastric > > bypass for obesity? If so, what were your > results and > > would you do it again? > > Blessings, > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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