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Topic: X-Post: Major hair loss post WLS, my wig story
I have the full story at my blog: http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/secretagentwoman/blog/2011 /04/03/-17/
I thought that others stuggling with severe post-WLS hair loss would benefit. Honestly, especially with people like me who sufferred complications and so had a prolonged recovery time and malnutrition issues, it can get quite brutal.
Know that you are not alone, and that you CAN embrace the challenge. Cutting hair super short, looking into wigs, etc.
I hope you enjoy reading my journey, and of course, you must ADMIRE my gorgeous butt (and the hair too haha) because we are all photo ***** divas inside who want validation.
I thought that others stuggling with severe post-WLS hair loss would benefit. Honestly, especially with people like me who sufferred complications and so had a prolonged recovery time and malnutrition issues, it can get quite brutal.
Know that you are not alone, and that you CAN embrace the challenge. Cutting hair super short, looking into wigs, etc.
I hope you enjoy reading my journey, and of course, you must ADMIRE my gorgeous butt (and the hair too haha) because we are all photo ***** divas inside who want validation.
Duodenal Switch hybrid due to complications.
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Click! > DS Documents ~ VitaLady.com ~ DSFacts.com ~ OH DS FB
Topic: RE: Help--post surgery and worried about blockage
Post on the regular rny board and you will probably get some responses
Topic: RE: Unlocked Lapband 3 months post-op
as it turned out it didn't unlock after all...the more recent post is on the lapband forum.
6-7-13 band removed. No revision. Facebook Failed Lapbands and Realize Bands group and WLS-Support for Regain and Revision Group
Topic: RE: reverse gastric bypass
Thank you very much for your response. I will definately hang on in there. I wanted to ask you if you had any complications from the reversal? Also, do you if you knew how the procedure is completed and were the doctor's were able to restore the complete function of everything? I just wanted to ask because there is not a lot of information online about the whole procedure.
Thank you again for your response. It's greatly appreciated.
Thank you again for your response. It's greatly appreciated.
Topic: RE: reverse gastric bypass
HI there and welcome to the group! I really need to get to the forum more often.Its been awhile. Its been about 5 and a half years since I had my gastric bypass surgery and I didn't start having issues for almost a year after the surgery. I can definitely relate to what your going through. I'd like to tell you though that from personal experience, the first month or 2 are the hardest. I was in so much pain & it really took some time getting used to not being able to eat like I had prior to the surgery,really. So needless to say to overeat even a little bit can definitly make you nausous to the point where you feel horrible and probably literally green too. Its a miserable feeling so in my case I really stuck to the liquid diet, got a prescription for nasua (&) and went through about 2 bottles of mylanta a week on top of that. It was not a fun time. I have to tell you but if I were you I'd definitely give it some time because everything eventually fell into place for me even with my problems. I still didnt go through nearly as much as some of these womens issues to avoid the reversal for whatever reasons. I guess everyone has their bottom in what they can handle. Mine was the hernias I kept having.
I wasnt so much worried about regaining any of the weight as I really learned alot in the nutrition classes I took but I was so miserable and sick I didnt care anymore. I WELCOMED the reversal. Sure, I was worried but it didnt match that feeling that death was starting to knock on my door every other month. I wish you luck and keep in touch regarding your situation.
I wasnt so much worried about regaining any of the weight as I really learned alot in the nutrition classes I took but I was so miserable and sick I didnt care anymore. I WELCOMED the reversal. Sure, I was worried but it didnt match that feeling that death was starting to knock on my door every other month. I wish you luck and keep in touch regarding your situation.
Topic: RE: reverse gastric bypass
Hi,
I'm new to the forum, but I read your post and just wanted to ask if you had the reversal completed and how hard was it to get it approved? I only had my surgery completed for about 4 weeks now, but everyday I am miserable and feel like I made the worst decision of my life because I am always sick. If you had the reversal already was there any complications with it, are you feeling better now that you had it done? Any information would be great because living like this is not the way to live life.
I'm new to the forum, but I read your post and just wanted to ask if you had the reversal completed and how hard was it to get it approved? I only had my surgery completed for about 4 weeks now, but everyday I am miserable and feel like I made the worst decision of my life because I am always sick. If you had the reversal already was there any complications with it, are you feeling better now that you had it done? Any information would be great because living like this is not the way to live life.
Topic: RE: reverse gastric bypass
Hi, I am new on here and I just wanted to ask how your reversal went? I too am considering the same and there unfortunately is not much information that is available on the whole procedure, risk or complications, or even if everything returns to normal.
Any information would be apppreciated. Thank you.
Any information would be apppreciated. Thank you.
Topic: RE: 13 years out & some 'issues' to pass along for others
The only part I can help you with directly is the vitamin/mineral deficiencies.
I know that the roux limb has to be XX long or bile reflux is the result, as you've said. Did anyone give you anything for bile? Or have they insisted on treating it as ACID?
Have you tried something like Citrucel, which can change the pH of bile so it's a bit less destructive, but yes, BE can be the result of a continuous bile bath.
Seriously, you're an RN and these docs thought you couldn't tell the diff between acid and bile? They musta never been pregnant! After I heaved the bile, then came my toenails! It takes something being bad wrong to actually TASTE bile. It is not sposta go uphill! Ever. Acid is kinda sour, but bile is repugnantly bitter. Makes you wanna tear your tongue off or at least out run it.
I was dx with osteoporosis in 2000, age 50, 6 yrs postie, but we were on not enough calcium and no specifics were given and really, surgeons weren't that good at reading our labs. The higher the calc level went, the happier they were vs the real life issue of high levels meaning the Calcium Has Left the Building and is now headed out of the bones back to soft tissue.
Sadly, thinning bones are still going to be the result of inadequate D intake and minimizing calcium type and dose.
But bile reflux, no. Did anyone talk to you about the ease/difficulty of moving the limb to cause the bile to go back downhill?
I know that the roux limb has to be XX long or bile reflux is the result, as you've said. Did anyone give you anything for bile? Or have they insisted on treating it as ACID?
Have you tried something like Citrucel, which can change the pH of bile so it's a bit less destructive, but yes, BE can be the result of a continuous bile bath.
Seriously, you're an RN and these docs thought you couldn't tell the diff between acid and bile? They musta never been pregnant! After I heaved the bile, then came my toenails! It takes something being bad wrong to actually TASTE bile. It is not sposta go uphill! Ever. Acid is kinda sour, but bile is repugnantly bitter. Makes you wanna tear your tongue off or at least out run it.
I was dx with osteoporosis in 2000, age 50, 6 yrs postie, but we were on not enough calcium and no specifics were given and really, surgeons weren't that good at reading our labs. The higher the calc level went, the happier they were vs the real life issue of high levels meaning the Calcium Has Left the Building and is now headed out of the bones back to soft tissue.
Sadly, thinning bones are still going to be the result of inadequate D intake and minimizing calcium type and dose.
But bile reflux, no. Did anyone talk to you about the ease/difficulty of moving the limb to cause the bile to go back downhill?
Michelle
RNY, distal, 10/5/94
P.S. My year + long absence has NOTHING to do with my WLS, or my type of WLS. See my profile.
Topic: Help--post surgery and worried about blockage
Hello: I am post surgery about six weeks and I at two crackers really fast this AM-two triscuit reduced fat...I wasn't thinking and now I have been throwing up all day. I can get some water through, but thats about it. Any suggestions or similar experiences. Old habits sure are difficult to break. I feel very stupid about this. Any info would help. Thanks
Topic: I Renamed My Blog. Please Check it Out
So I decided I would rename my blog to a title that is more reflective to where I am in my own journey of recovery. So I changed the title of my blog for Healing From Obesity: A Blog for All to Eat, Write, Move, Cook: How I recovered from Obesity. Please check it out and sign up to follow me if you like.
I will be offering book reviews on useful books I read during my recovery. Recpies and cooking tips. Talking about how to keep moving for fitness and sharing some of my writing.
Hope you will stop by!
Andrea
I will be offering book reviews on useful books I read during my recovery. Recpies and cooking tips. Talking about how to keep moving for fitness and sharing some of my writing.
Hope you will stop by!
Andrea
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