Hello, I'm having bad complications, need advice.

Hello.  I previously belonged to this website before surgery and several years after.  One day, after not having accessed my page for a long while, the whole webiste looked different and couln't find my old profile, with pictures and journal throughout my whole process. 
Anyway, I've had constant complications since POST-OP.  All types, from strictures due to scar tissue, becuase of that It caused a new pouch that developed and caused an ulcer.  I've been dilated several times (more than 4 times).  I have constant gas pain, bloating, which becomes severe.  Let's not even talk about how many times I have been admitted for dehydration.  I'm always anemic.  And now the new one.  I started having a sharp pain that would come and go.  Some days last for a few hours, sometimes the whole night, until the other night the pain never went away and I went to the emergency room.  They said I have a partial bowel stricture.  Which is the not the same diagnosis, from the previous years the stricture was by th esophagaus (I'm not sure about the spelling).  I use to work for Miami-Dade County and hade medical insurance.  I don't have insurance now because I don't work for the county anymore.  I have a new job and I can't miss days.  Even if I could miss the dayss, I still couldn't because I need the money to pay for my rent.  This is assuming that I would go back trough emergency and get everything done without having to pay upfront.  I have a catch 22 situation.  I go to the emergency room and lose the time and pay at work and maybe get fired, or that I don't know what can happen the moment the pain comes back.  I'm so confused.  And I AM IN PAIN.
Anyway, I still have minimal information about exactly what wrong with me, becuase the hospital didn't give paperwork because I left against medical advice, and apparently the hospital doen't give paperwork when you sign out against medical advice. 
Anyway, again, if ther is anybody that has some advice on what steps I should follow for this to be as less costly as possible.  Or if this has happened to anybody before, please share your experience and what you did.  I am a 32 YOA female.  I have lots more to say, but it's impossible on a first message to the forum.  Thank you in advance to anyone that can help me.

I do understand about not wanting/being able to miss work, but if you have any kind of bowel obstruction you do not want to mess around with that, very dangerous.  I am actually struggling with this currently, and if it becomes completely obstructed that piece of bowel dies and you can become very ill, and possible worse...you need to at least get to a GI doc and/or your surgeon to look into this further.  I hope you feel better soon!

Hi there....so sorry you're having to deal with this.  I too sometimes have PAIN that I have to go to ER.  My surgeon believes it's a small obstruction that comes and goes. By the time they do an xray, the small obstruction goes away and they don't see anything.

Continue to follow up with your doctor and surgeon to keep them in the loop.  I hope you're pain free sometime soon because it ain't no fun going to ER and having to ruin your night.

I'm so sorry for your pain.  Believe me I understand.  I had so many complications.  And they tookk a long time to diagnose the problem.  But that was previously.  Now I'm going through similar pains, but a different time, and now I have no insurance.  Thats why I have let this go on for so long.   Well since the last post, I went back to the hospital through emergency where my original surgeons operate.  Well, they actually took care of me, did the test, diagnosed a "intestinal hernia" .   They operated me the next day (laporascopically).  I f I would have gone back to the other hospital, I would have never had the same care.  It's just very complcated.  I got discahrge yesterday.  And obviously the fixed the problem.   They saidt that from the weight loss, the intestines throgh time move down and mine wrapped around and hit each other and formed a hernia.  Thats besides those the complications that I had at the begining of surgery.  A totally different complication

Anyway thank you for writing back, and remember that the doctor does make the difference.  Yo u need to see the best doctors.  Go and make a show at the emergency room of where you know the best doctor are and they have to treat you if you are post op.

Yep... similar situation.  I had strictures in my pouch (seen via esophagus).  That appears to be open and working well, but I still foam constantly.  I am so nauseated that I had to be readmitted several times (honestly... over 7 times or more... lost count... in the last 4 months).  I too had a small bowel obstruction and kept getting readmitted and they checked that out since my nausea/vomiting is intractable.  They FINALLY saw the obstruction with a barium swallow and they surgically fixed that.  Nausea still here.  Pain, I get sharp stabbing pain that levels me (9 on a 1-10 scale).  I have had that a couple of times since my surgery and it is terrifying when it happens.  I certainly had that with my first obstruction (visible on x-ray and "cleared up" after a few days of being NPO with a NG tube (NOT FUN THERE)). 

So, my RNY story has been nothing but misery.  I wish and pray that a reversal weren't so dangerous.  My surgeons told me to "hold tight" and "it will get better"... but still waiting for that day.

Please see my previous post answers and my original post on this forum.

I hope you are all better soon!