Brian & Christine Stinecipher share their success stories after gastric bypass! Part 1

Brian & Christine Stinecipher share their success stories after gastric bypass! Part 2

Brian Stinecipher shares his success story after gastric bypass! Part 1

We begin this video with Janet Dearwester, a Fresh Start Bariatrics patient, who went from 200lbs to her current weight of 130 lbs. Then, Brian Stinecipher shares he and his wives' success stories as patients at Fresh Start Bariatrics. He shares before and after stories and pictures.

Brian Stinecipher shares his success story after gastric bypass! Pt. 2

In this part of Brian's presentation, he concludes and then takes questions from perspective patients at a recent Informative Seminar that Fresh Start Bariatrics. and Questions are then answered by both Brian (a Fresh Start Bariatrics patient) and Dr. Myers. The free seminar is the first step in the Fresh Start Bariatric Patients journey.

Outcomes of Bariatric Sugery at Fresh Start Bariatrics at Riverside

We continue to be transparent and bring you as much information as possible.

Below you will find the results of 277 bariatric surgery patients operated on by Stephan Myers, MD, FACS at Riverside Methodist Hospital. Each patient was seen in our office in follow up 1 year after their operation where the following information was obtained.

I would like to caution you before you make too much of this information.

First, there are only 25 patients who had a gastric sleeve operation and had 1 year follow up at the time these numbers were tallied. Therefore there is less certainty about the gastric sleeve results. In fact there are so few patients in several categories to make any conclusions. For example note that there are only two patients that had stress incontinence in the gastric sleeve category and both had resolution of this problem. More numbers will undoubtedly show many patients will not resolve this medical problem.

Second, there is a definite bias in these results since patients with diabetes and severe acid reflux most often choose a gastric bypass since this procedure is the most effective operation to resolve these problems. Therefore, patients with less severe diabetes and reflux often choose one of the other operations but since their disease is less severe it is unfair to compare the numbers between operations.
You are welcome to this raw information but please understand that this is not comparing “apples to apples” and this not statistically valid for comparison between the three operations.

Key:
LRYGB ---Laparoscopic Roux en-Y gastric bypass
Sleeve ---Laparoscopic Gastric sleeve procedure
Band ---Adjustable gastric band procedure
N= ---Number of cases in each category

Dr. Myers, how do patients that had a gastric bypass do several years after surgery? (Before and After Pictures)

Although it is clear patients lose alot of weight over the first year after having a gastric bypass, I was recently asked how patients do several years after surgery. I recently saw Twila at the time of a routine follow up visit and sh wanted to share her story with patients that are curious about the long term outcome after surgery. I follow our patients for life as long as they are willing to have our practice involved with there care. Each year we make sure they maintaining their weight at a reasonable level and to make sure their vitamin levels and other labs are normal. Twila is doing great and had encouraging lab results. This is what she wanted you to know:

"My name is Twila Senters and I had bariatric surgery Jan 16th 2005
I am doing great keeping my weight off, I started at 273lbs and I now weight 132lbs. I now have more energy, I dont come home and sit in my chair until bedtime now, I dont even have a chair now. I am always doing something, before surgery you could not get me out of the chair until bed time and the next day would be the same , work, home to chair and bed. and all of that has changed for the better. I never stay home if there is something to do, which there always is."

This result is not unusual for patients several years after surgery. In fact it is very unusual in our practice for patients not to do well long term. That is what this blog is really about. I am trying to share with everyone how they can obtain their very best result regardless of where they choose to have surgery. I believe the princilals we are sharing can help anyone be more sucessful. There is alot of noise and errors shared on the internet and although what I say others may disagree with, Our patients are doing extremely well and are very happy with their outcomes. This is not because I am a better surgeon. I believe it is the principals we teach our patients that meke the difference.
I just hope the effort I am making to share this will help more patients to do well.