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Topic: RE: Hello, I'm having bad complications, need advice.
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.
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.
Topic: RE: I had my RNY reversed, anyone else out there?
Hi there..what kind of complications are you having?
Topic: RE: I had my RNY reversed, anyone else out there?
Big hugs and I'm hoping you are on the road to recovery and get much better....Thanks for sharing your story.
Topic: RE: Perforated Stomach
Liz,
Here is my story....I am 5 years post op and have been great. May 2007 I was rushed to the ER with pain on my left side under my ribcage. had a Cat Scan and they found a mass hidden under my intestine. That night I has emergency surgery and my bowel ruptured on the table. At that time the doc was only able to get 80% of the mass without taking some of my intestine.
I made it and then 2 days later got a staph infection. I was in the hospital for 4 weeks on IV antibotics and almost died I finally left with a visiting nurse for 6 week and getting more IV antibotics daily. Then....I noticed I had a hernia at the inscion site.
3 months later, I had the rest of the mass removed and the hernia fixed. I went to a different doctor, 3 months after that I noticed I had another hernia. That hernia was fixed July 2008, 2 weeks after that I passed out while recovering at my parnets house, they called 911 and again I was rushed to the ER. I was throwing up and pooping blood. I had a EGD and they found a bleeding ulcer. I was ICU for 4 days and got 5 units of blood. FINALLY I recovered a now I have another hernia in a different place.
Long story short.... I have had 3 hernia in 15 months. They are related to my original surgery last May. Is all of this related to my RYN from 5 years ago?? who knows. One doc says yes and one says no. One your stomach is cut the muscles are weak and thats why you get hernia. Its terrible so I know what you are going threw.
The last 15 months have been hell and I hope one day I can get better and return to normal. I hope you are feeling better and Happy Holidays
Robin
Here is my story....I am 5 years post op and have been great. May 2007 I was rushed to the ER with pain on my left side under my ribcage. had a Cat Scan and they found a mass hidden under my intestine. That night I has emergency surgery and my bowel ruptured on the table. At that time the doc was only able to get 80% of the mass without taking some of my intestine.
I made it and then 2 days later got a staph infection. I was in the hospital for 4 weeks on IV antibotics and almost died I finally left with a visiting nurse for 6 week and getting more IV antibotics daily. Then....I noticed I had a hernia at the inscion site.
3 months later, I had the rest of the mass removed and the hernia fixed. I went to a different doctor, 3 months after that I noticed I had another hernia. That hernia was fixed July 2008, 2 weeks after that I passed out while recovering at my parnets house, they called 911 and again I was rushed to the ER. I was throwing up and pooping blood. I had a EGD and they found a bleeding ulcer. I was ICU for 4 days and got 5 units of blood. FINALLY I recovered a now I have another hernia in a different place.
Long story short.... I have had 3 hernia in 15 months. They are related to my original surgery last May. Is all of this related to my RYN from 5 years ago?? who knows. One doc says yes and one says no. One your stomach is cut the muscles are weak and thats why you get hernia. Its terrible so I know what you are going threw.
The last 15 months have been hell and I hope one day I can get better and return to normal. I hope you are feeling better and Happy Holidays
Robin
Topic: RE: Hello, I'm having bad complications, need advice.
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!
Jules RNY 10/30/2007
Topic: 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.
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.
Topic: RE: I had my RNY reversed, anyone else out there?
Jeremy,
I'm sorry that you are having so many problems, and I hope you feel better soon! I did have the reversal, and I feel that overall it solved my eating problems (before the reversal I was nauseated and sick every single time I ate, and usually only after 4-5 bites of food- I got to the point where I could only get in about 500 calories a day on my own) I was only going to be in the hospital, after the surgery, for 2 days, but I ended up being there for 11 days. My malnutrition was so bad going into surgery that my blood sugar went haywire after surgery (way high numbers, which I have never had, so they ended up giving me insulin, and I have never been diabetic), I think it was just a stress response of the body to surgery, and then the day I was going to go home I started getting stabbing pains across my left abdomen, and it turned out that all the air that they blow you up with for the laparoscopic surgery was trapped in my abdomen, along with not being able to go to the bathroom, it was painful. The only lingering effect that I still have (I had my reversal on 11/3/08) is that my calorie intake is still on the lower side, about 700 a day so far, and since I have had so many surgeries involving my intestines that I keep having a partial small bowel obstruction that gets kinked and then straightens itself out again, but when it happens I try and manage it at home with pain meds/anti-nausea meds until it passes, but there have been a couple time I have had to go to the ER (where I work, thank goodness, always know that I am in good hands) for better pain management/nausea management/testing to make sure the obstruction has resolved before they let me go home. That is the only part that scares me right now because I do not want to have another surgery, and I know that if it kinks and decides to stay that way, surgery will be necessary to cut that part out and then we start all over again...I just try and have good thoughts and will that away
They are worried about my labs/nutrition at the moment, so I just had some labs drawn today to check my prealbumin/albumin levels among other things (those show the amount of protein in the body and can help determine your nutritional status) Hang in there...I know a few months ago when my family suggested having the RNY reversed, I was a total emotional wreck about it...I'm still nervous about gaining my weight back, but my surgeon constructed the two stomachs back together in a way where there is still restriction between the two, kind of like an hourglass shape. Keep me posted, I will add you as a friend if you don't mind, and I will check in on you.
Take care,
Jules
I'm sorry that you are having so many problems, and I hope you feel better soon! I did have the reversal, and I feel that overall it solved my eating problems (before the reversal I was nauseated and sick every single time I ate, and usually only after 4-5 bites of food- I got to the point where I could only get in about 500 calories a day on my own) I was only going to be in the hospital, after the surgery, for 2 days, but I ended up being there for 11 days. My malnutrition was so bad going into surgery that my blood sugar went haywire after surgery (way high numbers, which I have never had, so they ended up giving me insulin, and I have never been diabetic), I think it was just a stress response of the body to surgery, and then the day I was going to go home I started getting stabbing pains across my left abdomen, and it turned out that all the air that they blow you up with for the laparoscopic surgery was trapped in my abdomen, along with not being able to go to the bathroom, it was painful. The only lingering effect that I still have (I had my reversal on 11/3/08) is that my calorie intake is still on the lower side, about 700 a day so far, and since I have had so many surgeries involving my intestines that I keep having a partial small bowel obstruction that gets kinked and then straightens itself out again, but when it happens I try and manage it at home with pain meds/anti-nausea meds until it passes, but there have been a couple time I have had to go to the ER (where I work, thank goodness, always know that I am in good hands) for better pain management/nausea management/testing to make sure the obstruction has resolved before they let me go home. That is the only part that scares me right now because I do not want to have another surgery, and I know that if it kinks and decides to stay that way, surgery will be necessary to cut that part out and then we start all over again...I just try and have good thoughts and will that away
They are worried about my labs/nutrition at the moment, so I just had some labs drawn today to check my prealbumin/albumin levels among other things (those show the amount of protein in the body and can help determine your nutritional status) Hang in there...I know a few months ago when my family suggested having the RNY reversed, I was a total emotional wreck about it...I'm still nervous about gaining my weight back, but my surgeon constructed the two stomachs back together in a way where there is still restriction between the two, kind of like an hourglass shape. Keep me posted, I will add you as a friend if you don't mind, and I will check in on you.Take care,
Jules
Jules RNY 10/30/2007
Topic: RE: I had my RNY reversed, anyone else out there?
I am also having a lot of the same issues you are. I have began to explore a reversal. Did you have the reversal yet ? And if so, how did it go and how did you feel afterwords ?
Topic: RE: Drunk feeling and swaggering while walking?
Assuming it wasn't dehysdration..... Then get to a dr.
I'm 3 yrs out and on 10/31 passed out after several of those episodes where I felt drunk - out of body, lightheaded. I was hospitalized as it happened while I was visiting my dad in the hospital. I ended up spending days and was then released - the dr's are still trying to determine what's going on. Since 10/31 I have become progressively worse with almost daily episode of dizziness and have had a total of 10 additional fainting spells.
I'm writing this from my hospital bed @ Cleveland Clinic in weston. They're trying to find out if it's my pancrease over creating insulin. I have not eating since Wed supper (4:30) They're trying to induce hypoglycemia (sp) to do a special test.
This will be my 3 hospitalization in 6 weeks.
Don't just ignore this as it can be serious. I have been dealing with these episodes since the early summer but ignored it and now look where I'm @...
Good luck!
B
I'm 3 yrs out and on 10/31 passed out after several of those episodes where I felt drunk - out of body, lightheaded. I was hospitalized as it happened while I was visiting my dad in the hospital. I ended up spending days and was then released - the dr's are still trying to determine what's going on. Since 10/31 I have become progressively worse with almost daily episode of dizziness and have had a total of 10 additional fainting spells.
I'm writing this from my hospital bed @ Cleveland Clinic in weston. They're trying to find out if it's my pancrease over creating insulin. I have not eating since Wed supper (4:30) They're trying to induce hypoglycemia (sp) to do a special test.
This will be my 3 hospitalization in 6 weeks.
Don't just ignore this as it can be serious. I have been dealing with these episodes since the early summer but ignored it and now look where I'm @...
Good luck!
B
"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference." "Be yourself....everyone else is taken"
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Topic: I had my RNY reversed, anyone else out there?
I posted this on the IL forum, and then I realized that there was a forum for complications, so I figured I would post here also, I hope you don't mind. I tried to give the reader's digest version of my journey, but it is still too long! I had RNY on 10/30/07, and I was fine until about Feb/Mar 2008, and then the problems started, lots of stenosis (I have lost track of how many EGD's I have had, maybe 8-10 in 2008), I have had 3 more surgeries since my original surgery, the last one in November by Dr. Alverdy to do an exploratory with possible reversal of gastric bypass, which they ended up having to do. I don't want to scare people who are thinking about the surgery, believe it or not, I do not have any regrets and I would do it all over again, and keep in mind that I am the exception, not the rule for complications. I guess my anatomy just does not work with this surgery, it made me very sick, several trips to ER/admissions to the hospital, I think the scariest was the malnutrition (from not being able to eat due to symptoms) and having to get a central line to get IV nutrition at home, it has been a long road...now I am faced with a whole set of problems/emotions I have never had in my whole life...not being able to eat enough, trying not to lose anymore weight (that's a mind melter there), and having people tell you that you are too thin and telling you to eat more. I want to eat more, I am just still recovering from the last surgery, and I am still having some intestinal complications from that. I have a wonderful support group, really great friends there, but I mostly go to support others, I don't talk about my issues because I don't want to scare people, and there isn't anyone there with these problems, I almost feel like it would be offensive for me to talk about how I need to gain weight and eat more calories! I just didn't know if there was anyone else out there with any of these issues. Thanks for listening :)
Jules RNY 10/30/2007
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