Re: Re: portion of stomach removal

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i had the ds in two part so far i have only had the

first part the resizing of the stomach i have lost 70

pounds and over 80 inches in 5 months the decision is

yours to make so make it

--- MsMystic1@... wrote:

> In a message dated 10/13/01 8:02:54 PM Eastern

> Daylight Time,

> duodenalswitch writes:

>

> << Has anyone had, or know of any studies/statistics

> regarding, the DS

> surgery omitting the stomach-resizing process (the

> " vertical subtotal

> gastrectomy " )?

> >

> > I'm not sure if this is even an option, but I

> might be willing to accept a

> slower weight-loss rate in exchange for having a

> less " invasive " procedure.

>

> >>

> All I can tell you is when I met with Dr. Oakley, he

> said both of the

> procedures performed work together because neither

> of them is drastic and

> neither of them would work on its own. I know I

> can't say this the way he

> did, but it made sense. In other words, they could

> make the stomach smaller

> (like the pouch) but they don't or they could do

> something more drastic with

> the DS portion, but they don't and its the 2

> together that result in weight

> loss.

> Also - he explained pretty fully to me what the RNY

> was - I guess because he

> thought I might not know and he wanted me to be sure

> I understood that

> surgery, too. (He didn't know if I might be

> considering that in my quest -

> but I am not!) He said the small opening (stomah)

> in the RNY had to be

> " exact " in measurement for it to work, and since

> nothing remains exact, it

> could either get bigger (which cut down on weight

> loss) or smaller (which

> required having it re-opened) unless a round device

> was used to keep it the

> same size (and he said it had to be really really

> really small to work) but

> then you have to worry about that device breaking

> down in the system and

> problems with that, possibly back into surgery.

> Carole

>

>

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