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Hi Kate,
I'm hoping that by now you are recovered and doing well. I got out of the hospital a week ago after having surgery for a small bowel obstruction also. I had been throwing up everything I ate or drank for a solid week. I had lots of scar tissue and a kink in the intestine. I was post RNY seven years but did not have any problems until this one, though the doctor was amazed that I hadn't had issues before.
I am doing well now, almost back to my normal self. I'm hoping that I won't have anymore problems. If you check here please let me know how you are doing...
Julia
Has anyone ever experienced left upper quadrant pain post years VGS? I have had no complications with my weight loss surgery up until now. I lost 120 lbs and happy with my weight loss. I don't know what this pain is all about. It feels like shooting, stabbing and spasms. I have taken OTC Tagamet with no success. I notice when I eat any nuts it really goes into a spasm. I am going to contact my original weight loss surgeon, who follows me up on an annual basis. I just wondered if anyone has experienced this after a vertical gastric sleeve surgery?
I had a DS 17 months ago and I am basically disabled. I guess this forum may be best for me. I was just informed about SIBO so I'm going to check that out. My life has been turned upside down. I had major non related abdominal surgery but know all the Drs just see my DS and say they can't fix me. I hope u find a solution it's hard living life this way! Good luck
Hi I had surgery 4 years ago and I still vomit after small amounts of food regardless of what it is my doctor has referred me to a specialist but they have not found a reason
I developed food allergies (took forever to diagnose) and some food intolerances.
Also - google SIBO... I am pretty sure I get that, but I am more prone to constipation. I have to work really hard to have BM. but if I eat food that I am allergic to - not only I can get both...but it may takes days before my guts get "quiet" . It doesn't take a lot...
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
Hi all, I had my RNY surgery in December of 2003 and my life has been hell ever since. I did lose 150 lbs and struggle not to lose any more because of all my complications, which is why I am posting. I want to know if anyone has all of these complications also and what you did to help yourself. Since day 1 I have been nauseous and still am to this day. I cannot eat ANYTHING that will not make me nauseous. At the most I can eat 4 bites at a time. It is a living hell as I said above. I also have constant diarrhea, I take 6 Immodium AD tablets a day or I will poop myself. I asked about having my procedure reversed about four years in, but my Doctor said it could make things better or it could make them worse. I seriously don't know what to do anymore.
I posted this on the revision forum; But maybe ya'll can help me out?
I had a VSG in Feb. of 2012, initially i lost 150lbs and got down to 170. I've gained about 70lbs back. I attributed this weight gain my diet. Recently i decided that my continuing failed attempts to keep off the weight i.e. weigh****chers, ying-yang dieting were doing me more harm than good. I went to see two surgeons. The first told me i was a failure. When i had my preliminary appt with him he looked at me and said, if you gained that weight, whos to say you wont again" and told me to go about the procedure, continue to see the nutritionist, diet, exercise, psychiatrist.. and that we would "see". I cried that day, he made me feel like more of a failure than already do ( i am really hard on myself about this failure) I decided that i'd go see another, (better rated) doctor. I spoke to his officer staff and tech first, and answered a lot of questions, to why i failed, looking back it seemed like a test to see if my answers led them to believe that i would fail again. After the tech asked me questions, the doctor came in and asked me more questions about my original surgery. "when did i start gaining weight" "how hungry am i" "is it mental hungry" etc.. I explained to him that i was hungry from the minute after my surgery. The first two weeks of recovery were agonizing as i felt like i was starving, i was so HUNGRY. that my weight gain started as i began to eat normal foods, that my original doctor left me in the hospital covered in hives because he did not come and check up on me, and because i was taped up (i have a severe medical tape allergy) that his practice broke up, and diapered for about a year and that even though i didn't feel comfortable following up or going to see him again, i called his office about my weight gain and they told me that there was "nothing they could do". this new surgeon seemed very intrigued by my experiences and especially my hunger problem, he said he'd convert me to a bypass but first i need a endoscopy done to see what was going on, and the condition of my sleeve.
This is what i am confused about:
The results of the endoscopy were that a "Stomach Pouch" has grown onto my sleeve and that, that is responsible for most my weight gain. When i originally went to the gastroenterology, he tried to tell me that i shouldn't get a revision. When he came to tell me the results of my endoscopy, he told me that a revision would be medically necessary and that it wan't my failure, but a medical failure. I can't for the life of me find any information about a pouch growing onto a sleeve of anyone else?! Am i the only one this has happened to!? Is this Normal!? I am meeting with the doctor again next week to set the surgery date. The gastro said My insurance has to cover the surgery because it is considered a complication and medical failure. But i just, for the life of me can't comprehend how this could happen.
I saw a gastro doc about this issue when it first started happening a year or so after my surgery. I sometimes will get so burpy and bloated I am in pain and can't even stand up straight. I burp and burp as much as possible but it can go on for hours with little relief and the gas just builds. There doesn't seem to be any link to a particular food. I had a negative experience with the first gastro doc I saw, who told me to "just try not to burp so much" and gave me a pill that didn't help and told me my endoscopy showed little to nothing that'd cause it. I just gave up and dealt with it for a while. I had a couple more extreme episodes recently so I decided to try a different doc. He said it could be Celiac, IBS, or SBBOS and I'm getting tested for all three. Has anyone else with RNY had this issue? What did it end up being. BTW there are also other times I get very very burpy but I don't get painfully so. That happens more often than the painful episodes. Even those times though, I'm much more burpy than my mom is who has also had RNY a year before me. (she can still get more burpy than a norm person) Any insight would be great! Thanks in advance!
Yep.. I lost my remnant stomach and almost my life. Mine strangulated my small bowel and strangulated, necrotized and perforated my remnant. This all happened in two hours, and no one knows how I survived. I was in ICU for weeks. Pneumonia, sepsis, tubes, drains, pancreatitis.. He said he has never seen anyone so close to death. This was 7 years after RNY with zero prior complications. I had JUST turned 30.
RNY:11/2006
Emergency Gastrectomy: 9/2013
Well..this is exactly what happened to me, but on an extreme level. My pain started one night and I woke up in ICU the next morning. I had a Petersen's hernia that strangulated and perforated my remnant stomach. My abdomen was filled with infection because my remnant necrotized and basically popped. I ended up with sepsis, Pneumonia, an emergency subtotal gastrectomy, and pancreatitis. The surgeon said he has never seen anything like it, and has never seen anyone so close to death in his entire career. I only remember some of it, thank goodness..but the pain came on as a bad gas pain at first. Then I thought I had to poop..then vomit. Neither of those happened, but when I dry heaved, the pain went from 'what the heck is wrong with me?' To me telling my husband that I was dying, and that he needed to get me to the hospital. The pain that came on is something I could never begin to describe. I felt like somebody stabbed me through the chest/abdomen and out my back. I couldn't get any air, and the pain that quickly developed was excruciating. Something in me knew that if he called an ambulance, I wouldn't make it. Turns out I was right. I spent three weeks in ICU on every antibiotic you could imagine, I had a tube in my chest to drain the fluid/pockets around my lungs and a feeding tube. Somehow I am alive today. What I wanted to get across to you is..please follow your instinct. If something is wrong, it needs to be addressed now. I didn't know there was any sort of herniation, but in the course of two hours, the herniated intestines wrapped around my stomach and itself...7 years and zero complications later (after my RNY). I noticed this post originated in February, so I am very curious what happened. Please feel free to ask whatever you'd like. I'm an open book.
RNY: 11/2006
Subtotal gastrectomy: 09/2013
