Alimentary Limb - Please Answer!

July 17, 2001

Ok, I'm very upset right now. Mainly at the situation that put

me here with the Surgeon scandal that happened the day of my surgery,

but also because it seems people on here can't stop fighting long

enough to answer my question.

Some of you answered with " you've lost 105 pounds and that is great;

just remember to get your protein first, vegetables second and

avoid carbs " . Now, I know your hearts were definitely in the

right place, but that is seriously not what I asked and I REALLY

need to know.

PLEASE, how long is your alimentary limb?? I would especially

like to know this from Dr. Welker's patients. Also, how long

is it before they shorten it in surgery, if anyone knows??

I'm so upset because when I eat a piece of bread and you eat

a piece of bread, *I* absorb more calories from it than you

do because my alimentary limb is longer because of my surgeon

being snatched out from under me (without my knowledge) on the

day of surgery!

If I could eat all protein & vegetables and avoid carbs, I

wouldn't have needed this surgery in the first place. Carbs

are absorbed in the alimentary limb and to find out that mine

is longer than it should be is upsetting.

I need to know how long most of them are made these days. It

would be comforting to hear of someone who started at my

weight (420) who made it down to goal with a 250cm alimentary

limb. But I don't think that's gonna happen. I think I

need a revision and that's INFURIATING. And I don't use that

word lightly.

Please don't take offense to anything in this post. It's not

meant to inflame. I'm just trying to express how angry and

upset I am and that I *need* answers, please!!

-Sherry (Lake Marcel, WA)

BPD/DS Feb. 2, 2001

self-pay

5'5 " / 315 pounds / 33 years old

Lost 9 pounds in pre-op weight loss efforts

Have lost 96 pounds since surgery!

Total of 105 pounds gone forEVER!

http://www.fluffynet.com/wls/

July 17, 2001