Re: how do you know if you need your surgery redone?

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, normally either an upper GI series or an endoscopy is done to

see if there is a staple line disruption, leak, stretched stoma or

fistula. I really don't know if a CT scan would show it...anyone

else?

in NJ

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> I had a CT scan of the ab and pelvis. This should show if there is

a

> leak or something in wrong inside due to the surgery I had in 97',

> is this correct? Any help from those of you who have had a revision

> would be helpful to me, then I would know what to look for if in

> fact this is what needs to be done. Thanks in advance for any help

I

> can get.

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> gastric bypass 1997

> 260/160

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Who/where was your surgery? Proximal?

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how do you know if you need your surgery redone?

> I had a gastric bypass in 97'. The last 2 years I have gained about

> 30 pounds. Mind you I have not exactly watched what I ate, but have

> not been overdoing it either. Recently I have been having problems

> with pains in my ab and pelvis, that I have posted questions about

> also, but now I am thinking it maybe that I might need a redo. How

> would you know if it is you or a failure with the surgery? Yesterday

> I had a CT scan of the ab and pelvis. This should show if there is a

> leak or something in wrong inside due to the surgery I had in 97',

> is this correct? Any help from those of you who have had a revision

> would be helpful to me, then I would know what to look for if in

> fact this is what needs to be done. Thanks in advance for any help I

> can get.

>

> gastric bypass 1997

> 260/160

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