HELP - Upper GI shows no signs of Barriatric Surgery-Stomach normal size after 1 year 2...

Be sure to save both copies of this, and get your surgery report from the hospital and medical records. I find it strange now you are getting conflicting reports. By chance were both of these reports signed off on by the same doctor? If so does anyone think it's an honest mistake, or possibly this doctor covering the surgeon?

Two different doctors did the tests - the colonoscopy and stomach scope was done by my colon specialist but my bariatric/sleeve surgeon requested he do the stomach scope.   Then the sleeve surgeon requested the upper GI and it was done by a random doctor at the nearest hospital to us.

Hi, I am 8 years post op.  I am a little confused about the names of your tests, I think ours are called different things.

I had a barium swallow test which gives ex-rays as result.  In that I can see that my stomach looks a normal size - this is also what the doctor who did it said, he knew that I had been sleeved and he said pouch has stretched and looks relatively normal. (drink white stuff and turn around standing and laying a lot to move the liquid around so they can see tummy from all angles)

I also has an endoscopy done by a bariatric surgeon - they sedate you put a camera downyour throat and look inside your tummy.  This also said stretched normal sized looking pouch.

I had restriction, I lost 30+kg and now I can have a starter and main but don't have room for dessert.  If I tried I could maybe eat a dinner plate sized pizza but I would be super full.

Prior to my surgery I could eat 2 pizzas and have drinks and desserts.  So having a normal sized stomach is possible even with a sleeve, what we really sometimes need to know is how fricking huge it was before.  And also how much stretch the tissue had before.

One of the tests is a look down inside test and the other is a look at the with an x ray as much as possible.  It would be like walking around in house and saying this is a 3 bedroom and it's structurally intact and looks awesome.  but then the other test says, there is a massive crack in the garage wall and the wall hitting up against the next house (hernia) - can't really be seen inside

Also no evidence of staples doesn't mean anything either, because some surgeons use dissolvable staples and some use stitches and dissolvable staples  It's not like a seamline on clothes, because the fabric is alive and grows and heals around the seam.

If you are concerned it never hurts to get things checked out thoroughly but it doesn't sound out of the realms of possibility.  Hope that helps a little.

Yes, it does help!  Thank you!  And the barium swallow is an upper GI (they are taking x-rays of your upper gastro-intestinal track (hence upper GI), in order to get those pics and in my case, put air in your system for better view - you swallow barium as well as another pop rocks tasting powder that puts air/gas in your system for better viewing) and the stomach scope is an endoscopy. :)