Just got home from the hospital after 11/29/10
Hi,
What are you revising too? I can tell you it has not been a walk in the park. I think it was more painful the 2nd time around, b/c my surgeon was doing so much work. I figured it would be lap, it would be much less painful than the open procedure that I had the first time.
I would bring, chap stick ( your lips are going to get very dry)
Make sure you use your breathing spirometer
I brought diet iced tea for my clear liquids.
I also brought my protein shakes for the full liquids ( didn't get a chance to drink it, b/c I was on clear liquids for at least 4 days.
What are you revising too? I can tell you it has not been a walk in the park. I think it was more painful the 2nd time around, b/c my surgeon was doing so much work. I figured it would be lap, it would be much less painful than the open procedure that I had the first time.
I would bring, chap stick ( your lips are going to get very dry)
Make sure you use your breathing spirometer
I brought diet iced tea for my clear liquids.
I also brought my protein shakes for the full liquids ( didn't get a chance to drink it, b/c I was on clear liquids for at least 4 days.
Thanks for the suggestions! I hope you are feeling better. I am getting a revised gastric bypass. I have a hernia on my esopagus that he's going to remove and he said my pouch was larger than it should be so he was going to tweak that also. My 1st one was 1/2008 and it was a lap RNY and Im expecting the reision to be the same.
Thank you. My complications were, my lung partially collasped again. (same thing happened, when I had my RNY in 2003) the pulmonologist said that I am prone to it. I have been having issues with swelling and numbness in my legs and thighs, I think b/c that my surgery took 7 hrs and I was lying in one position for so long and it was very hard to get into a comfortable position, in the hospital bed. I was on antibiotics in the hospital b/c they either thought it was a lung collaspe, or pneumonia and once I was taken off it, I developed thrush in my mouth. So I was at my doctors office getting medicine for the thrush and she sent me off for a sono of legs to make sure that I didn't have a blood clot. According to their scale I have lost 15 pounds since having surgery.
Good luck tomorrow, I hope everything goes well. Please keep me updated as to how you are doing.
Good luck tomorrow, I hope everything goes well. Please keep me updated as to how you are doing.
I won't be able to read your reply until I get home next week. But did the swelling and numbness get better? Definitely lying in one position can do that.
Sorry to hear about the lung! I imagine that must be frightening. Glad that is fixed.
One thing that seemed to happen with me is that my thyroid hormone levels went down, and I suspect anethesia as the cause. The thyroid itself was functioning fine, but the pituitary stopped giving signals that tells the thyroid to pump out more thyroid hormones. Anyway, I got to find out all the many symptoms of not having enough thyroid hormones, whi*****ludes swelling - but mine wasn't just in my legs. So if you are getting tested, ask doc to please get ft3 tested, and not rely on TSH test. TSH is a pituitary hormone and mine was not elevated, which is should be when ft3 is low.
Congrats on the 15 lbs - I imagine you weren't getting much food in the hospital.
Thanks for good wishes. I'll keep in touch.
Sorry to hear about the lung! I imagine that must be frightening. Glad that is fixed.
One thing that seemed to happen with me is that my thyroid hormone levels went down, and I suspect anethesia as the cause. The thyroid itself was functioning fine, but the pituitary stopped giving signals that tells the thyroid to pump out more thyroid hormones. Anyway, I got to find out all the many symptoms of not having enough thyroid hormones, whi*****ludes swelling - but mine wasn't just in my legs. So if you are getting tested, ask doc to please get ft3 tested, and not rely on TSH test. TSH is a pituitary hormone and mine was not elevated, which is should be when ft3 is low.
Congrats on the 15 lbs - I imagine you weren't getting much food in the hospital.
Thanks for good wishes. I'll keep in touch.