Home and resting

Had my RNY last tuesday and was discharged on friday afternoon.    I'm told (and feel) things went well.   Still trying to work at getting this gas out of me, boy did I underestimate the gas issue.     Just went for my morning walk, gonna get out when it warms up a bit more.   Question:    How does one deal with the terrible taste of liquid Zantac?   UGH!!!!!!! Thanks so much for everyones help!!! Corey

sorry i cant help you with the zantac, i was told to take prilosec by my surgeon. BUT I wanted to congratulate you and wish you luck on this wild ride!!!!

Was it recommended that you take liquid Zantac? I have Prilosec and it works for me. I also have Gas X that are chewable for the times when something feels not right. Congratulations on your surgery. I know you will pass the gas as you move. It is what helped me. I hope you know about Beano...it is chewable. I take that when I feel the gas is in my bowels. So, I am not sure if you meant intestinal gas or upper GI gas. I am well prepared for both. My issues now come from our requirement to take iron daily. My sister had the operation 4 years ago Thanksgiving week. She has been diagnosed with low iron. I have yet to talk with her and see if she was told to take iron daily as I was told. Linda

Welcome home!  Here's to the new YOU!  Sip, sip...walk, walk!

Isn't that Zantac the WORST!   Thankfully it is only for a month that you have to take it....I know this because we had the same surgeon. I was cleared at my first follow up at 3 weeks to stop taking it actually. I really did not find anything to help with the taste...mixing it with something only prolonged the taste. I just shot it down quick and shuddered violently after. I would sometimes chase it with a bite of sugarfree pudding it helped some...but not much. Wishing you all the best~ Pam

Oh my god Pam.....I was SO not prepared that the worst part of this ordeal would be the meds.    I'd go thorugh the surgery and gas pains again if I could side-step the meds.  UGH!!!!   I've tried it with applesauce (made it worse) and the pudding is a little more do-able.   I can only pray I get taken off it on my first visit on 3/19.      How have you been otherwise? Thanks so much for writing.   Wanna be friends?

Me neither ...the meds were horrible! To make things worse I got  what they thought might be an infection in one of my incisions and had to do this heavy duty antibiotic...CRUSHED. HUGE horsepill crushed....nothing covered that taste. OMG...I thought I was going to die it was the most vile tasting thing I had every had. It took everything in my not to vomit it back up.  Long story short on the infection...I had one incison that was red and draining Dr Jones thought it was a stitch that needed to pop internally. This is not an infection. Just a fluid bulid up or something. The other drs thought it was an infection because another site turned red after the first round of antibiotics. I end up back in the hospital at 3 weeks out for 4 days for iv antibiotics and then home with a PIC  in with more antibiotics. I end up allergic to them ....rash from head to toe...then on yet another antibiotic. The horsepill one that I have to crush. The antibiotics never really did much for the incision and once I stopped them....it got better. It honestly never really looked bad...just slight redness with a tiny bit of drainage. Did not hurt a bit either. I guess the Dr Jones was right. The amount of antibiotics I was on should of killed any infection....yet only time made the wound heal.  It was crazy...but they were erring on the side of caution with all that superbug talk out there. It was so weird to be in the hospital when I felt perfectly fine. It really just never occured to me about not being able to take pills because I was not on any medication before surgery. Big shocker. BIG BIG SHOCKER...lol I am doing pretty awesome actually. I don't even feel like I had a surgery done. I am down aout 92lbs since my inital appointment with Dr Jones. I had lost 20-25 lbs pre-op so about 70lbs in the 3 months after the surgery. I am thrilled with the results. I can eat anything in moderation and have never dumped either. Which I guess is good and bad. It would be nice to have that fear to stop me from eating things I should not. I cannot eat the volume though and have yet to feel real hunger. I have to remind myself to eat. Something I never had to do before! Sure... I would like to be friends with you. I think I sent you a friend request. You have to approve me in your message part. Do you plan on going to the support meetings? There is one tommorrow night actually at 6 pm same room as the info sessions were in. Maybe I will see you there. How are you feeling? I only had gas pains the day of and the day after surgery...do you still have them? Gosh they were awful. I had them in my left shoulder. I felt like I could not even lift it off the bed. It was strange...when they took the g-tube out of my stomach something was released or poped inside. .. it hurt like hell in my shoulder... but then all the pain in my shoulder was gone.