Re: portion of stomach removal

October 13, 2001

In a message dated 10/13/01 8:02:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

<< 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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