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Thank you so much. I can eat pepperoni pizza and it about kills me, it did PRIOR to WLS!!! LOL Now days salad will do it. I appreciate you taking the time to give me an idea of what to expect. Ph test does not sound fun. Can they just give you enough xanax or something to make you oblivious for a day I wonder!!! Have a great weekend!! Good luck, you'll probably be having surgery around the time I go for my first visit!

Did you go from a sleeve to RNY? If so, how are you doing, did it eliminate the GERD? Any more weight loss? How much? Good luck!!

I'm experiencing everything you are except rapid gastric emptying. I've been on pranprozole since Nov 2019. Gastrologist will not even discuss repairing the hernia. I've started needing Tums again. Prior to seeing this doctor I had been eating 8 - 10 Tums a day, I had no idea that was a bad thing! I had them in the console of my truck, in the house and some by the bed so I could roll over in the middle of the night and get a couple. Did your doctor suggest revision immediately or will I have to go through a series of tests, medications etc? I was cash pay for the sleeve, but it was elective surgery. This would be medically necessary I suspect. Thoughts? Advice appreciated.

Thank you! I will wait until after the appointment and see what the doctor recommends, then I'll call if they don't!! Have a great day!

Our BCBS Anthem doesn't cover WLS, any idea if insurance will cover a revision due to GERD and a hiatal hernia? First appointment next month so it has not been suggested or recommended. I'm ahead of myself, but would like to have an idea of what I'm in for.

I am considering the same thing you did for the same reason. I see this post is from 2017. I'd love an update about GERD/reflux and also weight loss. How much did you lose after the revision, and how are you doing at maintaining? Any regain? Thank you in advance!

I am possibly looking at a revision from sleeve to RNY. GERD, and apparently I have a small ulcer and had a stricture. I was cash pay for the sleeve, any experience with insurance, specifically Anthem BCBS covering this if it comes to that? Thanks y'all.

I have an appointment with a bariatric surgeon/general surgeon June 17. I had sleeve surgery 6/2010. Maintained at or below goal for six years. Slowly I regained 38 lbs, but worse than that, the GERD. I had a endoscopy done Nov 2019, I have a hiatal hernia that he says will come back so he will not do surgery. He put me on a prescription med and that's it. Worked for two months perfectly, I'd been eating 8 - 12 Tums per day and went to zero. I started needing an occasional Tum so he upped the med to twice a day. For the past couple of months I am needing a Tums more and more, weekly, although maybe two or three in one day, once or twice a week. He failed to mention there was an ulcer and stricture. I am a bit worried. I know how dangerous an ulcer can be. I am preparing myself for RNY, is that the ONLY way to fix all of this? Would the GERD stop and could I/would I lose 25-40 lbs that I've regained? I messed up when we left Dallas, I had been going to a couple of support group meetings twice a month, I was logging my food, we moved and I stopped. What is your opinion? Do I ask about it, for it or just prepare myself for the possibility? Thank you!

At an area support group, the leader, the PhD doctor that does the psyc evals prior to surgery at Baylor Plano had a topic that's stuck with me. A light went off, 'THIS IS HOW I ended up sitting in a bariatric surgeon's office.' 100 calories per day, more than you need, is over 36,000 calories per year which comes out to about ten pounds. That's it, that is how I did it, I didn't wake up one morning, big. It crept up on me, a few pounds one year, five pounds the next.......over the course of 30 years!!! I could visualize 100 calories and HOW EASY this can happen. 1 TB of Peanut Butter is 100 calories. ONE!!!!! Think of all the little 100 calorie bags of 'whatever'. I know that when cooking dinner, I use to 'taste' more than 100 calories. It is so easy to do. A fourth cup of almost all nuts clock in at between 160 - 200 calories. Yes, they have some Protein, but not enough to justify those calories, not for me. Not often!!! For me, THIS is how calories can sneak in if I'm not careful. I log it all faithfully!