No Weight Loss After Roux en Y Gastric Bypass Surgery

by Linda Daniels
(Indianapolis,IN, USA)

I received Roux en Y gastric bypass surgery and did not lose weight. My doctor ordered an upper GI and determined that my anastomosis was too large and the food was traveling through my body as if I had never had the surgery.

Subsequently, I received gastric bypass revision surgery. I am now four months out and have lost no weight.

My surgeon has said he will consider an additional revision after I am 6 months out. I am on Atkins again to minimize any more weight gain.

I am so disappointed and willing to have the additional surgery. I have co-morbidities and want to alleviate some of the problems associated with them.

Submitted 9/20/2010

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No Weight Loss After Roux en Y Gastric Bypass Surgery

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May 06, 2012

Now I'm scared NEW
by: Anonymous

Had RNY 4/5/12 and lost 12 lbs the first 2 weeks. Go back to dr. this week for 1 month check but I seriously don't think I am losing. I still don't eat a lot but getting on the scale at weight watchers or other dr, there is no loss. I too am stumped with no loss. Hopefully it will improve. Oh yeah, mine was over $43,000.

Apr 02, 2012

I'm no loser...... NEW
by: Anonymous

I had the surgery in July of 2011. I have onlly lost 35 lbs. I am glad I didn't tell my family and friends because it looks like I've wasted a lot of money and risked my life for a few measley lbs. What a major disappointment. I am 57 yrs old and 5'2. I weigh 190 lbs. If anyone finds a way to start losing again pleade help!

Feb 20, 2012

Disgusted and Depressed!
by: Joe S

I have RNY November 21, 2011 and I lost 44 pounds by January 6, 2012. Since then, I've lost nothing, except my sweet disposition and overall positive outlook for the future. My dietician and doctor haven't the slightest clue why I'm not losing. I'm on a 1200 calorie program and I excercise by walking each day. I'm digusted with myself, and terribly depressed. I'm sorry I got myself in such a nightmare. I feel so sorry for the rest of the people who haven't lost their weight either. What do you do when your own doctor doesn't know himself. I weight 323 pounds now and I have a long ways to go. I am thankful to know that I'm not alone, but feel very bad for others. May we all be able to find our way thin. God bless each and everyone of you.

Jan 29, 2012

Don't give up hope!
by: Lindsey

I had rouxen Y bypass in 2004. I was almost 300 pounds, 5 ft 6 in and a small frame. I lost half of my body weight (150 pounds) within 6 months. I was down to 129 pounds and a size 0-2 even after that It stayed off until I was pregnant with two kids consecutively (they are 10 months apart). I went into a major postpartum depression and started drinking. The weight just kept piling on because wine has so many calories (and after bypass you get quite a buzz much quicker) I'm sober now 1 1/2 years and doing great. When I first stopped drinking, I had gotten back up to 200 pounds. 1.5 year later and no alcohol, I'm down to 130 and a size. Im not trying to lose any weight but it just keeps falling off. Im always running around after my toddlers now Try whatever you can to make it work. The road is hard but good. Good luck. I wish you the very best.

Jan 24, 2012

2 months - 36 lbs only
by: Jess

Oh wow I love this page (but don't expect me to say I love the results) ... I too had the gastric bypass on 11/14/11 and it's now 1/24/12 and I have only lost 36 lbs (30 lbs the first 2 weeks after the surgery and 6 lbs after)... some of my ex classmates had it done late November 2011 and have lost over 50 lbs ... some of my co workers have lost over 150 lbs in 6 months and here I am with only 36 in two months ... I don't eat junk food, I do zumba, I eat small portions, drink my protein every day with vitamins, I have no regrets but COME ON !!!! Thank you who ever made this page ... now I know I'm not the only one without any weight loss results.

Jan 06, 2012

REVISION In MY Future!
by: Anonymous

I had my RNY in Aug. 2009 I was 409 lbs I lost 31 lbs in 2 weeks after surg. And than over the next 9 months I lost 91 -92 lbs . I stopped losing completely after 9 months . My weight is stable but I didnt have RNY to be stuck @ 285 lbs. I work out daily ! Rain or shine! I eat right daily . I am just not losing the weight. I have suffered with iron and vitamin deficiencies the entire process. I had 3 hernias removed a bowel obstruction and gall bladder removed its been a long road. I was told by my Dr. that I should fall between 165-185 lbs and thats what I was at least looking for. This surgery is tricky I still eat less and I exercise but the scale is not moving.

Dec 31, 2011

I am very disappointed too
by: Anonymous

Hi
I too had surgery just about two years ago. Lost 47 pounds in the first 6 months. Nothing since and I have gained 8 pounds back. I am depressed about it do my best, still vomit if I eat the wrong way or too much. I still think of myself as fat ( I am) 180 pounds now. IEveryone I know that had the surgery is a size 8 or under!!
I didnt tell anyone I had it done, so no one looks at me and says I should be thinner. The down fall is I have no one to talk to about tehe surgery etc.

Thanks for lettiing me vent.

Dec 15, 2011

One Year Later: 50lbs. lost..yep, that's It
by: Anonymous

Today to be exact is my 1 year anniversary since surgery. I have lost 53 lbs. This is not just sad, it's pitiful. 53 lbs is more weight than I've ever lost on my own, but I surely didn't have gastric bypass to lose only 50 lbs. I'm actually about 63 or so pounds lighter because I had lost 20 lbs prior to surgery on my own. What has RNY done for me...not much. I am depressed about it at this point. I eat OK, it could be better but for sure I know that I am not sabatoging myself by over eating. I exercise...3-5, sometimes seven days a week and still no movement on the scale, unless you count 1 lb. a loss. I tracked my weight carefully and in the last six months, I have lost a grand total of....drum roll please 10 lbs. Yep, that's it. I don't know what to do, and neither do the doctors.

Dec 12, 2011

had gastric bypass a month ago with 10 lbs weight losst
by: so disappointed

All the pain I've gone through with only 10 lbs of weight loss is scary and depressing. After surgery I cried because I hurt so bad and cried for days. They had to do an additional surgery I guess I had a hernia they'd found during my bypass surgery but now, I work out at least an hour a day and don't overeat but have had barely any weight loss. Doc and nutritionists say don't worry it'll come...with all I do I'd love to know when. I wish I could take this surgery back and am so depressed because of it. I had my surgery nov 16th so almost a month.

Dec 05, 2011

Didn't work for me
by: Anonymous

I had a Roux en Y Gastric Bypass and lost about 75 pounds. However, it was a total fight all the way. I was alway hungry just like before. I was able to eat anything and as much as I wanted. It cost me $30,000 cash. In the beginning I lost about 10 pounds because I had to be opened from just below the breat to my belly button. Once that healed I lost nothing. I finally just stopped eating. I would eat an egg a day. I always felt weak. My doctor's assistant (never saw him) said, "you will lose." After the 75 was gone, I felt too weak to continue so I started eating a normal diet. Nothing in excess and I immediately started gaining back the weight. I had to have a upper-endoscopy today and this doctor told me the surger has become undone. What? How can a Roux en Y Gastric Bypass come undone. Don't they actually cut the stomach away and re-direct it. I think I was ripped off. Wonder what I can do?

Nov 30, 2011

Shocking Lack of Loss
by: Daisy

I had my Roux En Bypass surgery in 2009. In the first 2 months I lost about 14 months, which is tragic and shocking. The only odd thing about me is that I was not extremely obese but pretty much there. From a 255 LBS, I have come down to 180 LBS. Well this is not the kind of weight loss for which one undergoes such a massive surgery. The fact that I did not lose in the very initial months--a time when I could not even two raising--means that my body does not have a one-to-one correlation with food intake. I wish I had stuck to good old fashioned caloric control and work out. If anything, the surgery gave my over significant malnutrition.

May 18, 2011

80 More to go!
by: So frustrated

I had surgery in August of 2009 and lost 50 pounds by about the next spring. However, since then, I have lost no more weight and I work out at least 3 times per week for one hour and I take in about 1200 calories per day.

I need to loose at least 80 more pounds to reach my goal and it's not happening. My husband did not have the surgery and recently reduced his calorie intake dramatically and has lost so much weight.

I have never been more frustrated and I do not know what to do. People who know I had surgery look at me like "shouldn't you be smaller". Fighting depression and old habits everyday.

Oct 31, 2010

I thought I was the only one!!!
by: Anonymous

I had a Roux en Y Gastric Bypass and lost 50 pounds (I have over 100 to lose) and then it stopped completely. I gained back 10 and have been stuck there for two years.

I can barely eat and I'm still not losing any weight!!! I am so sorry I had this surgery. I have friends who did NOTHING and lost all of their weight after bypass.

What is wrong with me?

Sep 26, 2010

Doctor
by: Jim Baker

Your soma should be no larger than the size of a dime. What is yours? How much of your small intestine did they make non-absorbent?

Sounds like an inexperienced Surgeon.

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