Re: Re: Ren Cop Out/nick

[Guest guest]

Hi Sue -

I still have a remaining question. Just who, among the morbidly obese,

would receive a greater benefit from the RNY than the DS?

Best-

Nick in Sage

Re: Ren Cop Out/nick

> Hi Nick,

> While I think most of us agree that your comments are valid and very

> strong selling points... I still maintain my earlier post that

> different procedures are better for different patients. I know that

> we all see DS as the best, I do too.. but if there were no DS , I

> would have done the RNY.. and I would have done it on hopes that I

> didnt have any of the complications you mentioned.. that I would be

> one of the lucky ones (like a co-worker of mine who is doing well) and

> be able to become healthy that way. There are so many variables which

> could validate one type of procedure over the next.. you and I are

> just lucky.. )..

> Love, Sue

> post op 9/11/01

> Dr. Warden

> Ocean sps, MS

>

>

> > Hi Marcia -

> >

> > I don't want to start a war, either, but your statements are just a

> bit

> > unclear.

> >

> > You said that the DS isn't the right surgery for everyone. Is there

> anyone

> > who doesn't want to eat normally? Is there anyone who wants more

> weight to

> > come back post op? Is there anyone who prefers to have marginal

> ulcers?

> > Is there anyone who never wants to eat meat (or anything with fiber)

> that

> > hasn't been run through a food processor - maybe they'd actually

> prefer

> > Gerber's baby foods? Is there someone out there who really wants

> to clog

> > up their stoma and run on down for a bit of endoscopic maintenance?

> >

> > Is there anyone without psychological pathology who actually wants

> to dump?

> >

> > Does somebody out there actually want to have band slippage or

> erosion?

> >

> > Please let me know just who these people are because I can't picture

> anyone

> > who is well informed picking the RNY or Gastric Band . . . or any

> other

> > weight loss surgery.

> >

> > I, for one, will not be quite as wishy-washy. Let me go out on a

> limb here.

> > Anybody who gets the RNY (or other WLS) is a victim of

> misinformation or a

> > lack of information. Anyone who hopes to lose significant weight

> and keep

> > it off with the AGB is in fantasyland - unless they haven't bothered

> to read

> > the results of the FDA trials.

> >

> > Best,

> >

> > Nick in Sage

> >

>

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