Hey! My name is Sharon. I've started to respond to this roll call a couple of times now, so I'll just keep it short.
I had open RNY July 23, 2002, so next month will be 6 years. Last year I had revision surgery where the doctor reworked the arms and removed about a foot of intestine.
Now it's a little over a year since revision, and some of my symptoms are resurfacing. The bigest problem I'm having is maintaining. I was 124-129 for the last two years, and now am between 131-133. I can't seem to get back into the 124-129 range. Part of the problem is I'm hungry all the time. I was told last year that my pouch was large and the opening out (stoma?) was at 3cm. My surgeon said he could fix the other things but couldn't touch my pouch. So here I am. I have an appointment next friday to see a baratric doctor about sclerotherapy. Hopefully if he agrees to do it, it will sucessfully reduce the opening and I will be able to hold food in my pouch longer and not be hungry all the time. So for now I'm just crossing my fingers that he will be willing to do this and that it will help me to lose to goal and not feel like I'm starving all the time. Time will tell. I really feel I need the ROSE or the stomafix, but alas, insurance doesn't cover either of those procedures.
So I'm waiting not so patiently, but trying to not get my hopes up to high as I really don't know what this doctor will say. 10 days till my appointment. Wish me luck.
Sharon