am i a candidate for ds?

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i am researching for revision surgery from a prior horizontal stomach

stapling back in 1984. from everything i've read, i'm wondering if i

am a candidate for ds surgert? i am 100 lbs overweight max. i was

268 before i had surgery in 1984, i lost down to 180, and now i have

slowly gained back up to yo yoing between 235-250 / with a lot of

dieting. it is getting harder to keep my weight down to even that.

but it seems that most people with the ds have a lot more to lose,

but they also seem to have the best success in keeping weight off. i

don't want to make the same mistake twice. is there a surgery that

is somewhat of a compromise between the ds and the rny? thanks for

any input. patti meadows e-mail: philpatti@...