Question:
Is there ever a time where we are free of complications?

Just because some one doesn't have complications in the first few months or even a year, does that mean they are likely to never have them?    — Elizabeth .. (posted on September 10, 2003)

September 10, 2003
That would be hard to tell, since not every person who ever had any kind of weight loss surgery comes to this site. I have not had any complications after my RNY last October. I am trying to do everything I can to prevent future complications, like exercising and taking what I believe to be are the proper suuplements and following the porgram as closely as possible. However, down the road, maybe something I am doing will be determined to be the wrong thing; who knows!? If I develop a blood clot in my leg a year after surgery, could I say it was a complication of weight loss surgery? Probably not. If I develop a stricture in a year (no matter how unlikely that might be in the big scheme of things) - who knows - maybe it had something to do with certain foods or medications that I am ingesting and don't know about now. I think only time will tell in anyone's case. My best guess would be that if you haven't had complications early on, the farther out you are, the less likely you are to develop problems.
   — koogy

September 10, 2003
No. You can have a bowel obstruction years after abdominal surgery. Plus, vitamins aren't a 100% guarantee, especially for osteoporosis and anemia. This is why labs and dexascans will be important for the rest of your life.
   — mom2jtx3

September 10, 2003
Do you mean like staple line disruption--things that go wrong with the surgery itself? Or lifestyle things? I mean, we're not normies, never were, never will be, so we alwasy march to a different drummer. But complications, as in needing hospital intervention?
   — vitalady