For my SISTERS ~warning LONGGGGGGGGGG~

Thanks Dimple Donna and DeDee.

How have your doctors restricted the use of otc pain meds since your GB (i.e. do you have to stay away from certain brands, take in limited quantities)?  I get cramps like a mutha with my cycle and pop pills like crazy.

Thanks for this message, DeDee.  Right now Im already thinking of switching my PCP to someone who has experience with gastric bypass patients.  I think they will be better equiped to catch some of the ailments that can arise after the surgery.

No NSAIDs without the permission of your GB doctor....I was early out when my surgeon and then OBGYN allowed me to take BEXTRA....

You can take Tylenol products, but that is like vitamins for SEVERE cramps....so talk with your surgeon....have his nurse work with your OBGYN nurse to find a regimen for you.

Thank you so much for this Dedee.  You never know what someone else has gone thru.  God bless you.

You are welcome, Wootie! ~smooches~

  This is right on time DeDee my baby sister is going thru this right now she is in the military 13 years for the past several years she kept having abnormal paps, she is now  at a new duty station no women Dr in her area so they send her to a civilan Doctor 2 weeks ago.......... she has cancer and needs her uterus out and possibly her ovaries ASAP ..... she doesn't have kids she's in a dark place right now...as a family we will get her thru this   

I know that hurts....it's bad enough you are going through the big CA and then you don't have kids and now CANNOT have them....just remind her, that she can BLESS some child by giving them a loving home and her heart! ~smooches~ my prayers are with you both!

Hello I'm a lucker but I just had to comment on this I  too have been thru almost as much as you have with female problems and my WLS Dr  was on top of things what tipped him off was my anemia that was very bad before the surgery and post op it only got worse.  My 1st GYN had me go thru all of these procedures (Ablation-burning off the lining of the uterus, Uterine Fibroid Embolization-going thru the femoral artery to close off the blood supply to my fibroids which where to many to count) and after all of this I was told I would not have a menstrual cycle anymore and would go thru menopause, didn't happen either time still keep have problems had to repeat pap smears 2-3x a year but my male Dr did not want to  do anything just keep insisting that I needed to keep my uterus because I was given it for a reason so to make a long story short  changed to a female Dr who said on the first visit I needed a hysterectomy and had stage 4 precancerous  cells ( stage 5 is cancer)  I still have to have a pap smear yearly for the next 5 years just to make sure I remain cancer free, I was told ovaries where good but could go back and just 3 weeks ago had to go thru surgery again because I had a torqued ovary ( large abscess which was causing ovary to fall over a become twisted) but  Dr would not remove ovary because I had not been thru menopause.  The thing we go thru as women

Gosh, that sounds almost identical!!!

Isn't that a ******! I am just happy to be once a year now....that 3-4 times a year schitt was not fun!

My OBGYN also does a yearly ultrasound of my ovaries....

who you telling  I think the worst was the Uterine biopsy that I had to have 2 times in one year which meant they had to dilate my cervix to get inside the uterus with NO NUMBING MEDICATION can you say    OUCHHHHHHHHHH

I thank you so much for sharing this, I'm sitting here crying for all
 you've been through and thanking GOD you came through to tell us
 your story, and I know this was sent for me beacuse on 12/11/08 at
 7;45 am I have to go in for a biopsy on my uterus, I was told after
 the ultersound that my uterus is thickening and all I know to do is
 put it in GOD'S hands, yall please keep me in prayer.
  THANKS AGAIN , LOVEDOLL here in Philly.