My doctor gave me a report with a summary of the procedure done. It's interesting read. He used a 38 bougie. It looks like 'no obvious retained fundus' which is good since I understand the fundus part of the stomach produces 70% of the ghrelin (hunger) hormone. He also did 'a single stitch was used to bring the epiploic arcade back up the side wall of the antrum in order to prevent twisting" but the best part of the report is "Final sponge and instrument counts were correct."

Attached is also a report to pathology. They removed 21 x 4 x up to 2.5 cm of my stomach. I wonder if it's considered normal size for a 5'3" person.

It's funny you posted this. I was just telling my husband I wish I knew if my stomach was a "normal" size or bigger. And I sorta want to see a picture of it....is that weird??

My doc said my stomach size was on the high end of normal. Stomachs are actually surprisingly huge! one of the other patients had someone take pics during his surgery and it showed them pulling out the stomach! OMG ginormous!

A lot of us MX patients took home packets that included an image of our removed stomach and DVD of surgery. I haven't viewed mine and can't even remember where I put it. I've seen others and it's pretty interesting.

My doctor gave me a report with a summary of the procedure done. It's interesting read. He used a 38 bougie. It looks like 'no obvious retained fundus' which is good since I understand the fundus part of the stomach produces 70% of the ghrelin (hunger) hormone. He also did 'a single stitch was used to bring the epiploic arcade back up the side wall of the antrum in order to prevent twisting" but the best part of the report is "Final sponge and instrument counts were correct."

Attached is also a report to pathology. They removed 21 x 4 x up to 2.5 cm of my stomach. I wonder if it's considered normal size for a 5'3" person.

I think are left with a normal sized tummy for a field mouse!!! LoL I love, love, love it!!!!

It's funny you posted this. I was just telling my husband I wish I knew if my stomach was a "normal" size or bigger. And I sorta want to see a picture of it....is that weird??

I wanted a pic of my stomach also. the dr said he had it in his file and would see about getting me a copy...lol I wanted the actual stomach in a jar but he said it had to go to pathology.