well i just wanted to send an update on what happend when i had the my second stricture procedure yesterday. i went in and had my stricture stretched to the maximum 20mm. that's the good news. the bad news is that once he did this he noticed i have a kink in the middle of my stomach from the way it healed after surgery in december 2011. so, if i am still unable to keep my food down it is no longer because of the stricture since that has been stretched to the max it will be because the food hits the kink and and cannot make the bend. i am on 4 more weeks of soft/pureed foods then i go back for my recheck. of course if i am still getting sick then i will have to go back to my origional surgeon i guess to have the kink fixed. please keep postitve thoughts that i will be able to keep my food down and not need to have the surgery to fix the kink. that would be inpatient at the hospital and i really don't want that. the dr. said because of the kink i will always have to eat 6 meals of no more than 4 oz and i will always have to make sure to take VERY small bites so that it will have a better chance of passing the kink. he said i will also have to be very careful with what food i eat to ensure that i can get it chewed enought to pass by the kink. gees if it's not one thing it's another. who would have thought i'd get hit with 2 complications from it. i would still do it all over again just would like to do it without the stricture and kink! i'll keep updating if anything new happens over the next several weeks. but i hope to have an uneventful 4 week of soft/pureed meals. i am so very thankful that i am not hungry or by now i would have gone mad only eating such a limited food choice for almost 19 weeks now. my focus over the next 4 weeks will be fluids, and trying to get my protein in. i don't want to have to have a 4th procedure and i don't want to become any more malnursihed then i already am at this point because they have tossed the phrase iv nutrition around if i cannot get my numbers up from eating over the next few days. sleeve patients cannot be tube fed because we don't have enough stomach to handle that type of feeding so that only leave iv nutrition and it's pretty expensive. so i'm trying real hard to focus on just getting the food to stay down and eat has high protein count and i can handle.

i wish you good luck and health dear

TNP( iv nutrition) is too bad

i want to ask you your obstructiin or stricture is at pylorus or at the staples line

what do you mean by knik

crazy4pluto,

how awful for you... I can't imagine what you are going through - the worry and uncertainty of your current news.

The only thing I can think of, and I am not sure it will help, is to try and make some good quality Soups or broth to get you through the next phase.

Please let us know how you get on... hugs!

my stricture was in the middle of my stomach and that is also where the kink is just slighly lower then the area where the stricture formed. my stricture was caused by my body building my scar tissue on the inside of my stomach and not along the outside of the staple line. the kink is also on the staple line and it was explained to me to be like when you get a kink in a hose (slight bend but enough to affect the full flow). the kink will have to be surgically corrected if it continues to cause me not to be able to eat, otherwise its TNP to get me the necessary nutrition. i don't look forward to having to deal with either the kink surgery or the TNP.

TNP??

total parentral nutrition as by iv line

4pluto

so try to acconadate with soups , broth , juice and water til your stomach complerely heal

wish you all the best

till us know about your progress

I was on tpn for 3 weeks due to a leak,,you would think it would be awful but it wasn't that bad. You just get used to it. Good luck sweetie, I'm so sorry you are having such a bad time. My thoughts and prayers are with you.