Look Phil...

[Guest guest]

Look Phil,

I know for a fact that I have written to you several

times. Unwilling to openly discuss the issue??? I am

personally offended! While nearly everyone on this

list loves Dr. R for " giving them their life back " , no

one is willing to back up false claims! Dr. R has

asked volunteers to get an endoscopy and several folks

have responded, and so far, I have not seen any posts

that state that anyone is having any serious bile

reflux problems. But even if they were, it's a small

price to pay for the benefits of living in a normal

size body.

I just get the nagging sense that you are digging for

something to talk yourself out of having the MGB or

WLS altogether. God bless you, I hope you come to the

answer that's right for you.

As for this becoming the " gold standard " ... who

cares? As far as I'm concerned, it's the PLATINUM

STANDARD! When people look at me and see the weight

loss that has already happened, and they can see with

their own eyes that I am eating normally, not

vomiting, sick or disabled in any way; with or without

words, I've become a proud walking billboard for Dr.

Rutledge, the MGB and WLS in general.

Read those Christmas Party posts... do you think the

sick people stayed home??? NO! The reason all of us

weren't there was because we traveled from GREAT

distances just to have the opportunity to meet Dr. R

and have this life saving surgery. Oh how I wish I

could have been there, but I would have had to travel

700 miles!

Nevertheless, I want you to arrive at your answers,

but somehow, the answer to the question of bile reflux

is not what you really want is it? It's like you are

standing on a cliff and you are asking someone to tell

you if you should jump or not. Well I jumped! I had

the MGB! I feel terrific! And thank God for Dr. R.

Message: 14

Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 12:18:58 +1100

Subject: RE: Update/EGD/etc...

Thank you for this information. People I have

talked to have been unwilling

to openly discuss this issue. They just rely on

Dr R's statement that there

is no extra risk of bile reflux compared to the

average person. Other

people, including leading medical experts

strongly disagree with him. We

need to rely on him because to date he has not

initiated a study of people

who have had the operation over the last three

years to gain actual medical

proof from EGD's that there is no extra risk of

bile reflux. I do not

understand this as it is the only thing stopping

his new method from

becoming the new gold standard of WLS. So

everyone who has had a EGD,

please post the results, positive and negative.

If you have not had one

please do so, you will know whether you are at

risk of life threatening

effects of bile reflux and future MGB's (like me)

will have the comfort of

knowing that there is no extra risk from

complications of bile reflux.

thanks

phil

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