Does anyone know how to tell if the surgery isn't working like it should?
Had my surgery in July of 2000. I have never had that full feeling ever since haveing surgery. I can eat amounts about like I did before surgery. I have lost about 45 pds or so. This is so discourageing and frustrating especially when I come into the site and see how other have lost about 100 pds in just a few months or so. I have only been back to my doctor twice since surgery. At last visit he ordered a upper GI to be done. I have not had this done because the insurance is changing and now if I can get back to him it won't be til after April. After my surgery I had a lot of vomiting of blood and other complications. Three weeks afterwards was put back in the hospital for a pulminary embolism. I know he bypassed 6ft of intestines but I just think something must be wrong. I feel like a total failure and wonder what could have happened because this is not going well at all. I never expected such slow loss and I never expected things to be like this. I go days now where I get so discouraged I hardly eat a thing. It is not good but know if I do eat that I will be able to eat a whole lot more than four or five bites. I know I have not gained any wieght but certainly by this time I should have lost more than this. My husband and close friends try to be supportive by telling me that I am not like everyone else and my loss will be slower but I don't think so. Does anyone know if surgically something could have failed. I had a vertical banded gastroplasty in 1985. Only lost about 80 pds haveing that done but even then I don't remember feeling the fullness that I should have when I ate. Help me Please! I am so frusstrated. When I come into this site I do not feel like I can contribute to other anymore. I just cry and wonder what is wrong with me.
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