A Second Operation, a Second Start: Bariatric Revision Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe going back for a second weight-loss operation after a band, sleeve, bypass or switch. Some returned because the weight came back; others because of heartburn that tablets no longer settled, bile reflux, an ulcer that would not heal, a band that slipped or grew into the stomach, diabetes that returned, or a sleeve that left one writer unable to keep water down. The voices include a school bus driver, a dry-stock farmer, a surgical nurse, a firefighter, a pastor, a London cab driver and a full-time carer for a husband with dementia, writing from Columbus to County Cork and Pune to Wellington. Revisions range from band to sleeve and sleeve to bypass, SADI-S and duodenal switch, to endoscopic fixes, a port repair, a bypass reversal and a switch lengthened after too much weight came off. Writers describe eight months of insurance calls, waiting lists, paying for it themselves, fasting during recovery, work-camp food and church plates. Not every story ends neatly: one writer spent eleven weeks in hospital after a leak, a biopsy changed another's plans, and some chose therapy or a weekly medicine instead of operating again. What many describe changing most is the shame, and a willingness to ask sooner.

Who it's for

For anyone weighing a second weight-loss operation or already booked in for one, for families trying to understand, and for people who have had a revision and want company in it.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 265 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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