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Originally Posted by alliecat  Hi and thank you. I am trying to find my way around the boards and missed this post. Did your brother have a good weight loss at all with the band? The foods that I should be eating that will fill me up get stuck and make me feel sick so I can't eat much of them but the sweets? Well, because of the high fat content and the gue they go down easy and fill me up. I am going to have my band drained. I have had it. I wish I had gotten the RNY. I may be too late because now I have complications to my intestines called diverticulosis which is a condition of pockets in the intestines and things get caught up in the pockets and cause infection which I have had twice since June. Horific pain and agony. Anyway, the nurse at the Bariatric center said it may not be a good idea with intestinal problems to get the RNY. I feel stuck, hopeless. I feel like I have an endless pit that won't fill up with out the band but with it I can't eat things that are good for me. Catch 22 for sure. My cravings have gotten out of control. How long have you had the RNY? How much weight did you lose with it? I like that part about the sugar causing dumping. Seems like I need to have severe consequences to keep it out of my mouth. Well, take care.
Smile  Allie |
My brother to start with dropped a lot of weight but for a while now he has done nothing but gain. He has appt to see the surgeon again and see if they wont do the RNY for him. I try to get him to come to the broads all the time because I think Mike and OD as well as others would make a big difference in how he feels, but he always tells me he doesnt have enough time. Which is true enough. But he should make time for his weight problems but I havent given up on him.
I have had the RNY dont in 99 and lost from 427 to 270 then went back to 330 before I figured out I had to change my lifestyle eating patterns. I went and got tested to see if I had stretched my tummy out. And found that I didnt I was gaining because I was grazing all day long. I was stuffing things in my mouth all day.
After that I got it figured out. I had started losing about a year and a half or so ago and now I am down to 215. And I seem to be stuck I will go up or down a lb or two.
I dont have the dumping problem that a lot of people have with this because of the irratable bowel that I have. But because of that the sugar will make me vomit. Along with the dumping it causes hair loss ect.... there are a lot more things that happen to your body with the RNY then the band.
Losing is hard work and thats all there is to it. We have to find the triggers for why we over eat and stop them.