Deb, welcome to the group. I had a problem at about the 8-year point. I wrote about it here:
I'm diane & I live in Seattle. After reaching my highest weight of 269 lbs. in 1995, I began to look into weight loss surgery. It took me a dozen years to qualify based on weight reached and insurance coverage. The hospital kicked in the extra 20% Medicare did not cover, as part of their...
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Because of this group and the feedback I had, I did go for and upper GI, then a bariatric endoscopy. Never go to a clinic that does a plain endoscopy. The bariatric endoscopy is the only kind you should have.
I don't know why they'd say "breakdown." I hop they're not scaring you much. Don't jump off into the deep end and imagine all kind of terrible things. But make sure everything you do is specialized for you needs. I don't even know what breakdown means, nor do i know which surgery you had.
If your pouch has stopped functioning and is leaking into your abdomen, that's super dangerous, so you should get this figured out as quickly as possible.
Here's what happened to me:
Everyone who knows me here knows that I am a big old "call-your-doctor" girl. Yet I have been suffering for 4 years with symptoms of nausea, feeling too full too soon, belly pain, and food coming back up my throat to the point where I could stick my finger down there and feel my egg foo yung, if...
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It may not be as bad as you think, but if they aren't making a big deal out of it & getting you in immediately, it's probably not serious.
These days if you have a defective pouch, they can restitch it by going down your esophagus. Much less invasive and very little recovery time.
Keep us posted, please.