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Hi,

After being in a wheelchair and having substantial problems staying active, I have had a hard time moving and staying active. Thus since having my colon removed I have gained tons of weight. I am now 5'8" 250. One surgeon told me the success of surgery at my weight was about 94% (but it still bothered him) another said it was 60%. These are both very good surgeons. I was wondering does anyone know which doctor was closer to being right? The thought of having my jpouch fail is vey scary as I am not dealing with my ostomy well and so if it were permanent I would be very devastsated.
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I'm your height and weighed as much as you do when I had my surgeries. Plus I am a woman. I asked my surgeon if weighing as much as I did was going to be a problem and he smiled and said no. He then joked about how he could loose some weight too - he's not that heavy. I had my take down 8 weeks after my first surgery. I lost 85 lbs subsequently, in around a year. I wasn't hungry and when I ate it hurt. My Internist and husband were concerned with my rapid weight loss but I wasn't worried. I had more weight I could loose. While it wasn't gastric by-pass surgery I figured I wasn't loosing weight as fast as people do that have that surgery. I've gained some weight back but not that much. My first surgery was 11/2/10 and take down was 12/29/10 so at this time 4 years ago I was in-between the surgeries. I'm grateful I don't have to live through that again. I was very ill.

I'd asked my Internist about having some kind of gastric surgery sometime before my j-pouch surgeries. She said that no one would touch me. Now that's depressing!

I hope your surgery goes well. It's difficult when you have other health problems. I don't know what your other problems are and hope they don't end up delaying your surgery. I'm assuming you have had your colon removed already. If you have then you have made it through the worst surgery, in my opinion.

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