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Have anyone went on to loss a great deal of wieght after getting a blood clot & pneumonia ?.... need some motivation

@missindiana317....thx for your concern. Good luck on your journey. ..

I think we all had that feeling but 4 weeks later I caught a blood clot. My surgery date was 6/25. That's when I thought I was really going to die. Thank GOD, it didn't happen.keep praying for me and i'll do the same....

Yep, it was from being sleeved. The Dr. at the ER. said that you can get a blood clot anytime after surgery if your obese and they said the pneumonia goes hand and hand with blood clots. I spent 2 days in the hospital then I was transported to a medical rehab place which I spent 7days in pain. I got release with the pneumonia still and having nurses coming to my house because the blood thinner meds I have to take to continue to dissolve the blood clot. Still in pain but can breath a whole a lot better than 10 days ago. So then experienced has not been good for me.....

June 25th

I'm sorry to hear that but I woke up one day having pain in my shoulder and my right side. Also hurting when I breath. I was 5 weeks out. At first my dr. Office thought gas but it came out to be a blood clot and pneumonia. So be careful and good luck.

I will thank you so much.....

Hi, I was /had a revision on 6/25 to sleeved. Everything was going ok till Sunday (4days ago). I woke Sunday with back shoulder pain and it hurst to take deep breath. By Monday the breathing was almost unbearable and the pain moved to my rib under my cheast and right back. So went to my Dr. Office which said I'm 4 weeks post-op and should out of the woods for leaks or clots. U may have gas but if the problem is still there by Tuesday (day3) go to emergency room at the hospital where I had my gastric sleeve on 6/25. Well by 3rd day my pain was the roof. After all the test. I have a blood clot and small case of pneumonia in my lungs. ...wow...help

Yea, the tuna is too soon. I'm 3 weeks out today. U might want to try the Campbell to go soups( they are real thin, sf popsicle, sf chocolate pudding, ) lentils Campbell soup and flav Protein tube shots

My family member said senior dimension medicare pays fully and not the red, white and blue card at this time.

Good luck and Congrats....I'm almost 3 weeks out with band and sleeve at sametime and feels great. ...ahhhh

I was band in 2005, I stared leaking in the port and replacement band done 2006, then had hernia operation but when they got in there was no hernia just that. Band was to high up, that was 2007. I have been sick off and till they unfilled me in 3/2013. I was unband and sleeved at the same time on 6/25...I had a lot of spasms after the surgery. My Dr said I had a lot scare tissue and my band had slipped, which we didn't know until the surgery so it took me along time to heal.I had to spend 3 extra days in the hospital but with all that being said, this is the best thing I have done. The first week I have lost 13lb. Today I feel normal. Wow

I'm my dissolving stitches ....lol

I'm sorry, it could be the bread and not the beef.

Hey, I had it done in one procedure and my recovery is a lot harder. I had massive scarring and heavy distorted stomach from living with a sever slip which we didn't know until surgery.

@Kristina. J, your story sounds so much like mines. I was banned in 2005, had leakage for a year. So my banded was changed in 2006. With a small weight lost the dr. Found out in 2007a hernia, so I went to surgery for repair but when the dr. got in, and there was no hernia but found out that some of the stiches poped they just had to restich and changed the position of the band and port. So I lost weight with thevcorrection but I had a lot of puking and acid reflux during that time. I lost 115lb but in 2009 I became sick with bells palsy andi had a lot of meds to take which the band didn't like. So I stared gaining weight back. My org. Weight was 315 in 2005 got down to 200 at my lowest but I'm back at 340lb. So dr. Said the band had to be removed due to it gave me acid reflux and nausea with heart pain, so we did a band removal & revision to the sleeve on 6/25/2013. I have already lost 13lb on first 1 week check up. So good luck to both of us. This has been a long road. God Bless