Hi

I had gastric sleeve surgery 5 years ago. I lost a total of 110 lbs, but have gained back 20 lbs over the 5 yrs.

Today, I had an Endoscopy because I started having nausea and vomiting on an empty stomach. My GI doctor was surprised to see a "blind pouch" at the sleeve suture line.

Is this an appropriate forum to talk about long-term types of issues?

Yes. In fact, especially pertaining to the sleeve, the more info, the better, especially at 2+ years out.

Edited May 5, 20179 yr by PatientEleventyBillion

What is a blind pouch?

9 hours ago, Strawberry17 said:

Today, I had an Endoscopy because I started having nausea and vomiting on an empty stomach. My GI doctor was surprised to see a "blind pouch" at the sleeve suture line.

Hmm, this is very interesting. So a Blind Stomach is the part of the stomach in a RnY procedure that is stapled off from the pouch and stays connected to the intestine. It is 'Blind' because an endoscope can't be used to see the inside of it since it is no longer connected to the esophagus.

Now, there is very little information regarding this with a VSG, but since you say it is located at the sleeve stricture line I am wondering if there was some sort of hernia-like pouch created over time where food was pushing into it, but it is too small to investigate, and will not empty out because it has nowhere to go? This would definitely be causing the symptoms you report, but I am by no means a MD.

I would be very interested to see what your doctor says in the future regarding this, and thank you very, very much for sharing!

I think it means there is an area of stomach that is ballooned out from the rest of the stomach with a narrow opening. "Blind" means it doesn't go anywhere.

This could be a problem if food goes into the extra pouch and doesn't come back out....it would ferment.

Thanks for the responses.
I will post here to let you know what happens

8 hours ago, Berry78 said:

I think it means there is an area of stomach that is ballooned out from the rest of the stomach with a narrow opening. "Blind" means it doesn't go anywhere.

This could be a problem if food goes into the extra pouch and doesn't come back out....it would ferment.

I wonder what would cauSe this..sheesh

I hope you can get some relief from this. Please let us know.