Question:
Food getting trapped in old stomach??
I read an article where a lady had food going down into her old stomach and that was supposed to be stapled off and no longer used. She even had pictures up on a website showing the old decayed food that had been sitting in her stomach for 10 years rotting. What is this all about? — Holly R. (posted on June 10, 2003)
June 10, 2003
Sad but interesting, please post the URL address.
— bob-haller
June 10, 2003
I'm not an expert, but am a nurse, and it sounds like it good be an Urban
Legend! First of all, I would think that if the stomach was just stapled
off and you the person had a staple line disruption (SLD), then the food
would still go into the unused stomach that is still functional and
attached to the small intestine. In fact, whether that surgery was done
this way or if the stomach was completely divided into two parts, the old
stomach still works this way....the gall bladder empties bile into the old
stomach and it goes down the intestine and meets up with the food further
on down the line. If the stomach was completely transected (cut in two),
and there was a disruption, then the food would have gone into the
abdominal cavity and caused MAJOR problems.....not just sitting there for
10 years. Where is this web site, anyway? And is it a reputable site or
someones own *personal story*?
— Lynette B.
June 10, 2003
I came across that website the other night too. I dont remember thr url or
the name of the site but I think Ive heard the site mentioned before on
here.The site is by a woman named Sue and she obviously is dead against
anytime of wt loss surgery.I saw those pics and the way the whole site
looks its like these things were staged,even the letters that are
supposedly from people having wt loss surgery nightmares look faked in the
way that they are typed.There is also a letter from someone who had her
stomach turn 360 degrees when her lap band slipped and several other
stories. This site is even mentioned a few times as only telling the
"GOOD"side of WLS and never the tragedies or complications.
Lisa F
— Lisa F.
June 10, 2003
You must mean Sue Widemark. I'd believe very little of what is on her
site...JR
— John Rushton
June 10, 2003
http://gastricbypass.netfirms.com under videos and photos P.J.18 years
after VGB.
— suzznn
June 10, 2003
My husband is truly my best friend and my soul mate. Our marriage gets
stronger every year and WLS surgery has not changed that. He's thrilled
that I feel better and keeps me grounded when I get stuck in a plateau. No
one could ask for more.
— Cathy S.
June 11, 2003
Nothing like an urban legend have a grain of truth in it to inspire fear
among pre-ops! Many surgeons now use the staple line to divide the stomach
into two unconnected vessels-- the pouch in which your food goes and the
remainder that continues to secrete gastric juices into the intestine.
Some patients of the old method (when the pouch and the remainder were
divided but not separated into two unconnected vessels) did have a staple
line break that allowed food from the pouch to seep into the remainder
stomach. But, there is no way food could have lasted in the remainder
stomach for very long . . . there are far too many gastric juices in there.
— SteveColarossi
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