Excessive weight loss--Cyndie

[Guest guest]

Cyndie--

I just happen to be going through the online

transcript (thanks Marti) from Dr. Welker's last support group meeting

where this subject was discussed. Here's what was reported:

"Dr. Welker says approx. 4% of DS patients

have to be revised to keep them from losing too much, including those who

had the (now virtually never done) distal operations which left only a

50 cm common channel, so that number is expected to drop quite a bit when

there aren't those patients in the mix. He also said this operation

isn't only for weight loss, it's also for people who have a high lipid

condition for which there is no other known cure, and that those people

(who weren't obese pre-op) tended to average a weight GAIN of 3#, so it

seems the gut tends to adapt to absorb the amount of energy your particular

body needs to absorb."

How's that for an immediate, succinct answer?!

Jill

Welker's first lap DS 9/27/00

down 30 pounds in three weeks