Miserable

I have had Barrett's and monitored it yearly on the cancer surveillance program for the past 8 years. After 18 months of research, I just had the RNY gastric bypass in hopes of saving my life. Their is a study that showed many of the folks with Barrett's actually got regression from the Barrett's as the acids from the stomach and the mucosa from the small intestines are surgically separated from the pouch.
I won't know if it works that way for me until future scopes in the next year or two. But hopeful!
Go with the RNY bypass, the sleeve will make your Barrett's worse and put you more at risk for getting esophageal cancer. Surgeons steer us away from the sleeve for a very good reason.

I was all set for gastric sleeve surgery but preop I was diagnosed with Barrett’s. My doctor would not perform a sleeve in a patient with Barrett’s. My only option was bypass. I debated whether to just cancel as I only had a little over 100 pounds to loose. I did have, however, hypertension despite 3 medications and horrible sleep apnea. I am so glad I didn’t back out. I have never felt better. I take no medications and am keeping my weight off. It’s not easy but it is so worth it. My surgery was a tool that help me lose the weight but it is up to me to keep it off. I am hopeful for the future. Good luck on your journey.

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No. I weighed 222.4lb at surgery. My 1st goal is 160lbs. I did RNY for some of the same reasons. I have pre-cancerous cells in my esoph and duodenum and gastritis (which 98% of us have).
I am also a BC survivor. So RNY it was. And I'm doing fine. So will you.

I have had Barrett's and monitored it yearly on the cancer surveillance program for the past 8 years. After 18 months of research, I just had the RNY gastric bypass in hopes of saving my life. Their is a study that showed many of the folks with Barrett's actually got regression from the Barrett's as the acids from the stomach and the mucosa from the small intestines are surgically separated from the pouch.
I won't know if it works that way for me until future scopes in the next year or two. But hopeful!
Go with the RNY bypass, the sleeve will make your Barrett's worse and put you more at risk for getting esophageal cancer. Surgeons steer us away from the sleeve for a very good reason.

I have had Barrett's and monitored it yearly on the cancer surveillance program for the past 8 years. After 18 months of research, I just had the RNY gastric bypass in hopes of saving my life. Their is a study that showed many of the folks with Barrett's actually got regression from the Barrett's as the acids from the stomach and the mucosa from the small intestines are surgically separated from the pouch.
I won't know if it works that way for me until future scopes in the next year or two. But hopeful!
Go with the RNY bypass, the sleeve will make your Barrett's worse and put you more at risk for getting esophageal cancer. Surgeons steer us away from the sleeve for a very good reason.

I have had Barrett's and monitored it yearly on the cancer surveillance program for the past 8 years. After 18 months of research, I just had the RNY gastric bypass in hopes of saving my life. Their is a study that showed many of the folks with Barrett's actually got regression from the Barrett's as the acids from the stomach and the mucosa from the small intestines are surgically separated from the pouch.
I won't know if it works that way for me until future scopes in the next year or two. But hopeful!
Go with the RNY bypass, the sleeve will make your Barrett's worse and put you more at risk for getting esophageal cancer. Surgeons steer us away from the sleeve for a very good reason.

Overjoyed to hear your Good news. I'm pre surg with similar things going in, now you've inspired me, already knew it's the correct decision for me. Send good thoughts my way in March, okay?

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I'm back finally! The forum is giving me fits so I haven't had a chance to read through this thread. I hope everyone is doing well!
I'm at about 37 lbs down since Dec 28, so no complaints. I also got back to work yesterday (finally) and am feeling pretty tip top overall. My pouch handles different kinds of food well, and next week all restrictions are lifted so I can try raw veggies (hello salad!) and nuts. I've been fortunate to have a pretty unremarkable recovery.
I have finally figured out what my body's "tell" is for when I'm eating too fast (especially), or too much, etc. I get very bad indigestion in my back. Crampy and painful and it can last for hours. I'm only just figuring that out, and I have to get better at slowing down (or stopping) when it happens. (Like right now. OUCH!)
Anyway, nice to be back!

Your diet look pretty bland as you said. You are taking Prilosec, which is a proton-pump inhibitor, so that is good. Could be an ulcer. According to the internet:
Nausea and vomiting are the most common complaints after bariatric surgery, and they are typically associated with inappropriate diet and noncompliance with a gastroplasty diet (ie, eat undisturbed, chew meticulously, never drink with meals, and wait 2 hours before drinking after solid food is consumed). If these symptoms are associated with epigastric pain, significant dehydration, or not explained by dietary indiscretions, an alternative diagnosis must be explored. One of the most common complications causing nausea and vomiting in gastric bypass patients is anastomotic ulcers, with and without stomal stenosis. Ulceration or stenosis at the gastrojejunostomy of the gastric bypass has a reported incidence of 3% to 20%. Although no unifying explanation for the etiology of anastomotic ulcers exists, most experts agree that the pathogenesis is likely multifactorial. These ulcers are thought to be due to a combination of preserved acid secretion in the pouch, tension from the Roux limb, ischemia from the operation, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use, and perhaps Helicobacter pylori infection. Evidence suggests that little acid is secreted in the gastric bypass pouch; however, staple line dehiscence may lead to excessive acid bathing of the anastomosis. Treatment for both marginal ulcers and stomal ulcers should include avoidance of NSAIDs, antisecretory therapy with proton-pump inhibitors, and/or sucralfate. In addition, H pylori infection should be identified and treated, if present.
So the other two things they recommend is (1) stay off any NSAIDs, such as aspirin and Excedrin (which contains aspirin) and a host of many other NSAIDs and (2) make sure you were tested for Helicobacter pylori infection. This is a common infection that is hidden, so you may be a carrier and not know it. It can also be a hard bug to kill.
I would make your surgeon aware of the difficulties you are experiencing.

Fitzer is good. you will be fine.
my advice for the first month? be kind to yourself. listen to your body (this would be my main advice at month 1 or month 6, or in perpetuity actually). if your body wants to rest, rest! eventually, your energy will come back and you will literally feel compelled to get up and move. it won't be something you have to do, it will be something you'll be seeking to do! and yes, it's all about walking. don't get crazy with working out for the first year. but walk as much as you can. i usually walk about 3 miles a day. and am still hopping around the house on top of that!
as you progress in your eating, listen to your hunger signals. they have been "reset" by the surgery and are very true now. some days you will be hungry - so feed yourself as much healthy food as it's calling for. other days you won't have hunger at all - so focus on getting the minimum Protein but don't force much on top of that.
i remember at about month 2 i had an entire Chipotle salad w/ chicken for dinner. finished it with ease! i was shocked! but then the next day, i sat down to eat a small bowl of chili and got the most overwhelming "full" sensation after about 3 spoonfuls, so i just put it down and walked away.
i personally do not agree with the typical bariatric dr's plan of "three meals a day". i understand why they do it, because a lot of obese people have food addiction issues and they are trying to form better habits. but i've never had food addiction issues. so i eat when hungry and don't when not. i have no desire for junk food or fast food. i only crave healthy vegetables and quality Proteins. that's the honest to god truth.
the only "goal" i have everyday is getting at least 100g of protein. that's my floor. for most women i think the floor is 80g. i've been doing this since about Month 2-3. some days i'll eat a lot of food on top of that. other days i barely eat anything on top of that. it's worked out well for me. i just go by how i feel, what my body is telling me.
to get that "floor" amount of protein, i would suggest having a group of cheap, convenient, and easy-to-eat foods that you can eat every single day that is the basis for your diet. for me? every day i eat two eggs cooked in MCT oil (15g protein), an Isopure zero-carb drink (40g), single serving skyr fat free yogurt (15g), and a can of black or pinto Beans (30g). that's a built-in 100g of protein, with healthy carbs, Fiber, and Probiotics. that's about 700calories.
after that, sometimes i feel like having a big dinner. or a light dinner. or no dinner. i just follow my hunger signals for that. i think it's good for the body to switch it up like that. 1000 calories one day. 700 the next. 1400 the next. etc.

hope that helps.

but for you, right now a week after surgery... keep drinking that broth! chicken broth, beef Bone Broth, miso. it will give you hydration, much needed sodium, and will resemble "real food". all that fake sweet shakes and stuff got old for me real fast.

fluffychix - sounds like you have an excellent, progressive thinking dietician who is up to date on the latest research. lucky you! it seems that most of them, unfortunately, really suck.
i’m glad you are in good hands.

@Miserable I'm betting the issue with the Ambien is post-anesthesia related. Hope you get it sorted soon. I have to have totally black surroundings. Any light, and I wake during the night will mean I can't get back to sleep.
@JohnnyCakes This is ridiculously great advice. Thanks so much for clearly laying it out!
It's also an exact mirror of what my RD told me to do in my 5th appointment yesterday. Really wonderfully refreshing to have such affirmation! She just kept telling me, that it's physically impossible for me to understand or accept how my perspective and food relationship will change overnight after the surgery. That today as a "normie" I'm still subject to all the hormonal hunger cues and need to fill this big empty space, and after surgery, I will have little impetus or incentive to eat. She said, that's why my instructions are to get my Fluid in, take my supplements, and concentrate on getting my Protein in--she wants me optimally to be at 70g but gives my range of 60-80g daily.
We talked for a long time about hitting some caloric goal. She told me that pre-surgery, I'm absolutely on a diet with a set caloric goal--that's to ensure I don't gain and that I lose at a more "expected rate." But that after surgery, my pouch real estate will be at a premium. There will be no physical way for me to "make an artificial calorie target" and hit it. The pouch will hold what it holds, and want what it wants. And I'm to listen to it and eat when I need to, and not eat when I don't need to--but that each day, I must at least hit my protein limit. But she also said, in the early days right after surgery, that I just have to have set times to get my protein down within a scheduled time frame--even though I won't feel that hunger.

I am 6 days post op from RNY. I tried last night and the night before to take my normal RX Ambien to get a good night sleep. Both nights I was stunned to wake up only 90 minutes - two hours after I took my pill....wide awake and unable to go back to sleep.
Has this happened to anyone else?
I had made the wrong assumption that since it would not need to go through my old huge stomach for a long time, that it may work faster...and possibly be too strong now and that I would have to cut the dose in half. Now I'm wondering if it's the opposite...goes straight from the pouch to the small intestine and never gets in my blood system?? Is that possible??

you'll wake up after surgery. i promise you.
if you don't get the surgery, you will die - way too young.
think with your brain and not your emotions, and get the surgery. this is your finest hour. rise to the occasion.

Well...I trusted and with disastrous results...ugh!

I’ve been the same. I took one Imodium the first day I had the runs. Then I switched to kaopectate liquid bc it went down easier. Good luck!

Hiya
I was squirting like a firehose for the first couple of weeks! “Fart with follow-through” - NEVER trust a RNY fart!
Now, I get a bit of warning, and the first half of a movement has substance, with a liquid finish - so clear progress!

GERD was so bad I tried to get fundoplication surgery for it but my esophagus was weakened and it would not be able to push food through. I also had Barrettes esophagus. My surgeon suggested a bypass to get the acid off my esophagus and it would help me loose some weight too. I had it done on 12/28. So far it is ok. Can’t wait to see what happens after this purée phase.

I actually had bypass to deal with GERD, not weight loss, that is how bad mine was, they said I was on my way to getting throat cancer. So def, go for bypass

Had a two-week follow-up appointment with the bariatric advanced practice nurse last night. She said my incisions look good! I am cleared to start Vitamins, transitioning to soft solid foods, and baths! Back to work next week (a mix of ugh and yay)!

I just got my surgery date - it is December 27. Would love to have some December support buddies to get through this together and help eachother.

I just got my surgery date - it is December 27. Would love to have some December support buddies to get through this together and help eachother.

@823freckles I haven't started the Pre Op diet....I don't even know what mine will be or how soon prior to surgery I do that. I don't see the doctor or dietician again until Dec 6 and my RNY surgery is Dec 27. What date is your surgery?
My emotions go from scared to death....to so excited that I'm getting this incredible opportunity to save my life and maybe not suffer the constant shame of out of control eating and being the fat girl in the room....to being just normal....to be able to walk with not horrible knee pain again....to not be out of breath walking up one flight of stairs....yep, I'm all over the place.
Biggest fear....am I strong enough physically to survive the surgery and the recovery phase?

@823freckles I haven't started the Pre Op diet....I don't even know what mine will be or how soon prior to surgery I do that. I don't see the doctor or dietician again until Dec 6 and my RNY surgery is Dec 27. What date is your surgery?
My emotions go from scared to death....to so excited that I'm getting this incredible opportunity to save my life and maybe not suffer the constant shame of out of control eating and being the fat girl in the room....to being just normal....to be able to walk with not horrible knee pain again....to not be out of breath walking up one flight of stairs....yep, I'm all over the place.
Biggest fear....am I strong enough physically to survive the surgery and the recovery phase?