Nope.  I don't smoke, never have.  I also don't drink. 

I have seen this post a few times before and the member always deactivates after posting it. The tag line is always the same as well. On December 31, 1969 at 4:00 PM Pacific Time, wrote <-- unless the internet was around longer than they admit to...this is just some "special" person trying to freak out people.

I'm about seven months out and for the past three to four weeks have noticed that I don't have the air to laugh or cough right.  I have a rather large hernia just above my umbilicus.  I've noticed that I feel short of breath more after I eat, even a small amount.  Isn't really painful, my chest just feels "full".  I was talking to my niece who is an RN about what is going on and while talking to her I put my arm over my head to scratch my back and realized that I could get a full breath.  What could be putting pressure on my diaphram?  My hernia is hard and painful at times, and I know it will need to be repaired, but am hoping to put it off until my weight stabilizes and I can also get some plastics done on my flab.  And can't think why the hernia would have anything to do with my breathing.  Any suggestion.  I don't see my bariatric surgeon until July.  Thanks for any help or suggestion. Nancy J.

Hi - I'm pre-op, but researching, and apparently there is some risk of WLS patients (specifically, RNY) developing hypoglycemia after WLS.  I think this may be related to seizures, as well.  You might look up Melting Mama's page.  She has posted about it.

I am a nurse.  I had rny last Aug 27th and have recently been having pain after eating.  I researched and asked the surgeon about the internal hernias that can cause a bowel obstruction.  He said that it is a possibility that I have that but that he hasn't seen that much trouble with that.  I am wondering also if with the increased numbers of laprascopic rny surgeries if this problem won't increase.  I am actually considering writing a journal article about this subject to educate emergency room nurses.  I think that we will see this number change.  I also think that many may have symptoms of this problem for some time before it is actually severe enough for them to seek help.  As overweight people are often afraid to advocate for themselves, I think many suffer pain in silence.  We have taught ourselves, many of us, to be as unnoticeable as we can possibly be and are too nice to complain to our docs.  Perhaps some think they must be doing/eating wrong that is causing the pain and they deserve it? Anyway----I think we are going to be hearing a lot more about this in the future, and we need to educate ourselves and our docs.  I will keep your friend in my prayers.  Just remember that if you have pain, it needs to be evaluated by your  WLS, as many ER docs don't have a clue.  They work from algorhythms many times which tell them what to do, what tests to run. etc.  Until this gets into the literature, you will need to tell them what you know and about how they are sometimes nearly impossible to diagnose without surgery to explor for the problem.  Someday, perhaps it will be in the ER docs algorhythm that if the person has had WLS, this warrants a call to the WLS and/or an exploratory surgery.   Janet