Re: [MGB-TRUTH] MGB Stories

[Guest guest]

:

If you did all of this research prior to your surgery and helped out so many

with their insurance problems, why did you have the surgery in the first

place?

Curious????

[Guest guest]

Even though the studies say this and I have posted it at least 100 times

this week, some people just seem to miss this so I am going to put it on

top: The complications this particular procedure causes do not develop

until several years from now, so no post-op is likely in a position to

have them.

If you read the medical research, you'll see that the procedure Rutledge

does is a procedure that HE knows was abandoned 25 years ago as a weight

loss surgery because of these complications.

http://www.fourlane.com/mgb/cancer.htm

http://www.fourlane.com/mgb/problems.htm

http://www.fourlane.com/mgb/1983.htm

http://www.fourlane.com/mgb

I find it particularly deceitful that when he is asked about whether or

not the Billroth II was abandoned as a weight loss surgery 25 years ago

because it is known to be so dangerous, he answers with this vague

implication that is intended to lead you to a false conclusion: " It's

done all over the country everyday and it's used for cancer treatment. "

He also has a citation to that effect on his website.

Now, this is very deceitful because you aren't a medical person and

neither am I but the logical conclusion is that, " Yeah, hey, must be

okay! They do it everywhere! "

What he doesn't tell you, but what he knows, is this:

The Billroth II is the way the intestine is connected to the stomach,

using a loop. It is this loop that causes serious complications because

bile and pancreatic acid get into the stomach. This causes problems

that are specific ONLY to the Billroth II, not any other procedure.

Studies have shown the Billroth II has a much higher incidence of

gastritis (http://www.fourlane.com/mgb/1983.htm), esophagitis

(http://www.fourlane.com/mgb/problems.htm), ulcers and cancer

(http://www.fourlane.com/mgb/cancer.htm). It causes irritation and

inflammation at the point where the loop is attached to the stomach,

including ulcers, as well as inflammation that damages the esophagus and

causes cell changes that are pre-cancerous. You have as much as a 30

times greater risk of getting cancer after the Billroth II than another

procedure.

Another problem is that the particular problems are NOT something you

will even know you have until it has already caused serious damage and

changes to the cells in the stomach -- another problem, because it means

that once you have had this surgery, you better be getting regular exams

of the lining of your throat and stomach and test for acids.

If you want to go by " looks fine to me, " from recent post-ops, then

that's your business, but you will have to completely ignore compelling

medical evidence about the dangers of the Billroth II, and you can see

for yourself that every other reputable bariatric surgeon in the country

refuses to to the procedure because it has long-term dangerous

complications, and do just a little digging and you will find that the

RNY was developed specifically to avoid these complications.

Seems like a lot to ignore to me to go on the word of a handful of folks

who haven't had the procedure long enough to experience the

complications.

Besides, you could be lucky. Maybe you won't be one of the 20% who gets

the serious complications, or one of the 1.5% who die within 15 years

after the surgery from the Billroth II, or one of the people who gets

cancer from the 30 times greater risk.

There are post-ops who do have other problems that develop in the

short-term and some of them have posted here and in the newsgroup. We

had two today.

Most of the post-ops do not give out their names publicly because they

are still under the false impression that Rutledge will " save " them and

he is the only one who " understands " what he did, which is very wrong

and as more of them find out they are being yanked around, and they

begin to really need treatment, let us hope they will find good doctors

to treat them. They also don't want to be jumped on, which happens

regularly over on the MGB post-op list, particularly, to anyone who

mentions they have a problem. It's a moonie mentality. Hard to

explain, but I had it, too.

Best wishes, whatever you decide.

dskulman@... wrote:

>

> After hearing so many scary things, I contacted several post-op patients to

> find out what they have to say about the MGB and Dr. R.

>

> is the only one who seems to be dissatisfied with the MGB. I

> wanted to hear pros and cons from EVERYONE who had had the surgery, not get

> shouted at for still being interested in this procedure.

>

> Attached are the unedited responses I got back. If this operation was so bad

> and Dr. Rutledge was such a jerk, wouldn't some of these people say that?

>

> Obviously the procedure DOES work, patient satisfaction is HIGH, and

> complications have been LOW.

>

> I simply cannot believe a physician would be so openly deceitful and open

> himself up for lawsuits, etc. like this man has done.

>

> I for one am waiting to get my turn and I am satisfied with that conclusion

> after reading all the responses from this forum.

>

> Donna Skulman

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