What if I have had a previous bariatric surgical procedure and I’m experiencing problems?
The first option is to contact your original surgeon. It is vastly preferable for the original surgeon to take care of a surgical problem because he or she is most likely to know the correct solution based on his or her knowledge of your surgical anatomy. If you have moved far from your original surgeon or there is some other reason that it is not reasonable for that surgeon to participate in your care, we may be able to help. We will need to have an operative report from your first operation, and you must obtain the report from the surgeon’s office. Also, we will want you to have support and an established relationship with a primary doctor, and we will want to see the results of an upper GI x-ray or upper scope to see if there is a correctable surgical problem.
