SmilinsShrinking
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One last question for you, have you seen many people that revised from the band to a DS... how did their losses compared to a virgin DS?
There are several on the board. I am not sure how far out all of them are from surgery, but I believe they lose or are losing well.One last question for you, have you seen many people that revised from the band to a DS... how did their losses compared to a virgin DS?
There are several on the board. I am not sure how far out all of them are from surgery, but I believe they have lost well or are losing well.One last question for you, have you seen many people that revised from the band to a DS... how did their losses compared to a virgin DS?
Yes sir! Very kind of you! I was in O'Hare Chicago asking every question I could think at that time. Thank you again. Now from what I read, you became severely malnourished due to the too short length, is that right? I ordered a 90 day supply of vitamins from Vitalady. I also need to contact my PCP about labs etc. I didn't see Esquerra again after the surgery was done but prior to it I asked about cc etc. I wasn't pushy or demanding just casually asked how he determines these measurements. He said he looks at all the measurements, how my sleeve looks etc. and that he would look at all that to determine my numbers. He never mentioned HESS method. This (HESS)came from my email chain with the coordinator, when I directly asked if he uses that Method. So I wonder if he really does it? I think he does his own thing 'based' off HESS maybe.75 CM is what the Hess Method would call for on a 700 CM Total SBL. 10% x 700 = 70 CM and they go to the closest increment of 50, 75 or 100 CM for the CC based on where 10% of SBL puts you.
The issue I take with Esquerra on these numbers that he is saying are Hess numbers is the AL (Exactly the problem I had). Because Lisa was a revision from VSG is the only reason I can see him varying from Hess numbers unless there was something else he saw that caused this action, but 205/700 is only 35% of Total SBL so I don't know why he chose that number.
Lisa and I talked yesterday and hopefully things will be okay. Like all of us, she will just need to follow her labs closely and if she sees thing dropping there are options.....unless she sees that there is an issue I see no reason to worry.
@Amey is as well and I know there are more here as well.@SmilinsShrinking: I'm a lapband to DS revision in February, though not Hess method of measurement. I think @CaraOC is one too, and went to Mexicali - also in February.
One last question for you, have you seen many people that revised from the band to a DS... how did their losses compared to a virgin DS?
Thank you@Whocansay1 , just wanted to say hello and welcome.