Silicone Ring Response
Our GBP group has talked about this topic and I will pass on the information I have. It is not a ring that our surgeon uses but a quick out-patient procedure that tightens (scars) the stoma that may have stretched. Our surgeon Dr. Randall Baker is one of the few surgeons that is a pro at this. I know people who have had this done and they were very pleased. I suppose the ring would be a similar procedure.
Sclerotherapy
Used to treat a person whose anastomosis has stretched making continued weight loss extremely difficult.
the opening at the bottom of the pouch
If you've had your surgery done in the last five years (Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass) then it isn't the pouch that will stretch, it is the anastomosis that will stretch.
This makes the bottom of the pouch and the roux limb closer in size to each other (think of it as a funnel: if you make the opening bigger at the bottom of the funnel, the tube will have to accommodate and get bigger or you'll have a big back up) The roux limb actually becomes a storage device for food instead of just a passage way for food to go through on the way to the intestines.
There is also a variation of this. If you are drinking while eating, you are mushing up the food in your pouch which is allowing it to force itself through faster and thus you are getting more food, and you are stretching it out slower, but stretching it nonetheless.
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Julie
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RNY LAP April 18, 2005
Michigan
Randall Baker MMPC Center of Excellence
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