I had my RNY Gastric Bypass on November 14, 2016 and lost most of my weight in the first 9 months. I started this journey at a maximum weight of 360 pounds, and on my day of surgery, weighed 334 pounds and am down to 234 pounds. When I was released from the hospital after my Gastric Bypass, I wasn't sent home with instructions to stay on any PPIs or antacids, so since I was feeling great, I stopped taking my daily regimen of Pepcid. In February earlier this year (2017), I had a perforated intestine that nearly killed me (became septic) and was hospitalized for nearly a week after they repaired the hole in my intestines (near the pouch). I went through another treatment for H. Pylori and was on strong oral antibiotics for 6 weeks, and then have been continuing 20mg of Prilosec every day (have recently started weening myself off of it). In mid-April, I became severely constipated and impacted and was back in the hospital with a diagnosis of Prostatitis. Since then, I have suffered from chronic constipation and have had solid plateaus for several months at a time. I am posting my story because I am trying to see if anyone else out there has gone through anything similar, and I would like to understand if anyone lost more weight after their first surgical anniversary? I am having a Resting Metabolic Rate test tomorrow morning, so I am trying to figure out why I'm not losing more weight, but thought I would post and see if there is any hope. I am taking Probiotics (Culturelle), multi-vitamins, Calcium/D3 chews, and get all my protein and water in every day. I also exercise at least 2-3x per week. To get by, I wind up taking milk of magnesia roughly every other day...I only recently stopped taking Stool Softeners...I had been taking a Stool Softener (2x at night, every night for months). Ironically, I notice things move more easily on their own when I drink a glass of red wine after dinner, but don't want to depend on alcohol to help me go. So, I'm posting because of 2 things: the constipation and the amount of weight loss (the length of time, the plateaus, etc). I am hopeful that as I reduce the Prilosec that things will get better as my body starts producing more acid. Keeping my fingers crossed. Any thoughts?

Hi Andre first off let me say wow you have been through a lot. My story has some similarities. My HW 407 SW 367 CW 257. I came out of hospital 12lbs heavier than going in. After a week I started feeling very nauseous and had pain in my stomach. CT showed nothing wrong but I was fully impacted and had to have an enema. After that fluid subsided and weight came off. Then week 7 I was rushed to hospital and had sepsis urosepsis and kidney stones! I had emergency surgery to put stents in. Over the next four weeks I had 3 more surgeries. Again with all the fluid the weight stalled. All the anaesthetics and pain meds shut the bowel down and I ended up back in there last week having another scan and full enema. For the constipation I have to take Movicol double strength twice a day as long as I have painkillers. I'd like to come off them but I have chronic osteoarthritis [emoji20]

I also had H. pylori Pre-surgery and had it treated. While in there he saw that I had a hiatus hernia and repaired that too. I had my RNY on Aug 10th 17 and so far lost 110lbs so I'm happy with that and recovering each day. I wish you well with their rest of your weight-loss journey x

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I didn't have constipation until about 2 years post op. Prior to that I'd eat something sweet and then would get things moving. Now I have it often I need to drink a lot of water to keep everything moving and sometimes use milk of magnesia but I can go days not going. I find 8 glasses of water a day really helps. I couldn't drink that much water initially it took me about 1 year to be able to drink a cup or water.

And yes I'm continuing to lose weight as long as I eat clean and exercise. I can also gain weight too.