I am about to celebrate nine years since my surgery and decided to check in for the first time in forever.  What in the world happened to this forum?  The PA forum used to be one of the most active state forums on all of Obesity Help!  I was hoping to reach out and get some help, but it looks like I'm writing this to myself.  Anyway, I had lost 165 pounds and have now put back on almost 50 of those pounds.  For the first couple years, I was the poster child for weight loss surgery.  I did EVERYTHING by the book.  I even led a Barix Clinics support group in Chadds Ford and also filled in at times at Langhorne.  That Langhorne group used to get over 50 people regulary show up every meeting.  Does it still exist and what are the turnouts like?  It would be nice to see some of the old timers come back because this place used to play a HUGE role in providing an incredible source of inspiration, support and general friendships.  I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one of that group that has struggled to keep the weight off.  

I am so sorry I didn't see this sooner!!!  If you haven't called your surgeon yet, do it now.  How far out from surgery are you? 

I'll try to give the best explanation I can to cover the full length of what's going on.

6 days ago, about 2 hours after dinner I suddenly got the chills, started heaving as if going to vomit, and became extremely fatigued.  I spent the night getting up at least once an hour due to diarrhea.  It also felt like I wa*****hed on the last two ribs on my left side with aches in my left shoulder, elbow, hips, and knee.  I went to my primary physician the next day who suspected some sort of intestinal virus and basically told me to wait it out.  He also told me to take some Mylanta to coat my stomach and seemed to look at me quizzically when I tried to explain that I've had RNY and that wouldn't work (I'm working on finding a new primary since mine has retired and this doctor has taken over his practice).  I've spent the days since then on mostly clear and full liquids since it seems that whenever I eat anything solid I'm fine for about an hour or so and then I start to get some abdominal discomfort, a bit of sweating, some burping, and depending on how much I ate or how solid it was, nausea.  I plan on calling an office that deals exclusively with bariatric patients, actually the facility where I had surgery back in 2007.  Since it's the weekend I just wanted to get some idea of what might be going on.

I have a couple of questions:

1. Any idea what kind of problem I'm dealing with here?

2. Should I not wait to get an appointment and just go to the hospital?

3. I can keep eating yogurt and drinking fluids to get by but should I keep trying to introduce solid foods or will that likely do more harm than good?

4. Any other general advice that might help?

Thanks for any help.  It's been a long time since I've been on OH but I was confident it's a good community for advice.

-Brian

Do you have any support group meetings at Jefferson Hospital?  I am looking to get back on track, with two knee replacements and two hip replacements in 5 yrs, I really got off track.  A relative just had surgery in Uniontown and is doing great, I think it is because of her visit with a nutritionalist every month.  Years ago, when I had my surgery, I only had one visit with a nutritionalist.  Need to find a good one.

If you'd like to go into the holidays with renewed determination to not gain any weight, start by joining us this Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. at Barix in Langhorne to give and get support!  Topics include 1-2-3 Steps to Getting Back on Track.