I admit, I haven’t been taking the failed stitches as well as I had hoped. I feel so guilty for spending so much money on this (myself), and deciding to play the odds that this would work. One thing I know for sure is that I won’t be spending money on just me ever again. It feels horrible to feel like it’s been wasted. My personal advice there is don’t spend the money if it will completely devastate you if it doesn’t work. Sometimes it just doesn’t work.
I have an appointment tomorrow with my ESG surgeon to go over questions before I even consider a revision. I have found several people who have had ESG stitches come out and then had their ESG redone. Unfortunately, the success rates of the people I’ve found are next to terrible. Since there is no “official” data out there about revisions, all I can go by are personal stories at this point, which may be really inaccurate, but it’s all I have. Of my sampling, I have found at least an 80% failure rate of stitches the second time around. That was super discouraging to find out.
That said, I’m trying really hard to feel good about the progress I have made, which I think was mostly on my own. I suspect that the stitches failed rather early on when I felt two really odd popping sensations, but there’s no way to know for sure this is when it happened. The truth is that I have lost over 10% of my body weight, and have done so despite constantly recovering from a surgery or procedures, and despite my other health issues limiting me on exercise. So I’m trying to focus on that and give myself some credit. I am definitely not giving up. My commitment to making my life healthier and better is still there, and hasn’t changed. I didn’t come this far just to throw in the towel.
Helpful Resources: I wanted to mention that there have been a couple people that have been really helpful with questions, even though they were not where I went for my ESG. They are Tesha Chapman and Dr. McGowan at True You Weight Loss in North Carolina, and Sheila Crenshaw who works with Dr. Marvin in Texas. Tesha gets back to me almost immediately with anything I ask her, and Dr. McGowan has done over 150 ESG’s, so he’s been a really nice resource to be able to get opinions from.
CURRENT STATS: 24lbs lost total.
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