poginut

Four days! Everything is well! After passing gas, I was worried about not having BM! But that went to passed too! Now I'm just suffering when the wifey cooks! Smells good but i don't get hungry! She can't help it, she still has to cook for two growing boys! As far as pain, I could honestly say if I had to scale it 1-10, I would say zero! Except for those times when I forget that I had surgery recently and I move too quick, like getting up from the coach! Have no problems in keeping anything in, just got remember to sipsipsipsip! Quick recovery to all and happy sleeving to those getting ready.

Four days! Everything is well! After passing gas, I was worried about not having BM! But that went to passed too! Now I'm just suffering when the wifey cooks! Smells good but i don't get hungry! She can't help it, she still has to cook for two growing boys! As far as pain, I could honestly say if I had to scale it 1-10, I would say zero! Except for those times when I forget that I had surgery recently and I move too quick, like getting up from the coach! Have no problems in keeping anything in, just got remember to sipsipsipsip! Quick recovery to all and happy sleeving to those getting ready.

Four days! Everything is well! After passing gas, I was worried about not having BM! But that went to passed too! Now I'm just suffering when the wifey cooks! Smells good but i don't get hungry! She can't help it, she still has to cook for two growing boys! As far as pain, I could honestly say if I had to scale it 1-10, I would say zero! Except for those times when I forget that I had surgery recently and I move too quick, like getting up from the coach! Have no problems in keeping anything in, just got remember to sipsipsipsip! Quick recovery to all and happy sleeving to those getting ready.

Thanks everyone, I'm recovering well..a little pain in the admiral area, but tolerable!

All is well so far...trying to get as much liquid( water) down as to avoid dehydration, sip sip sip! No major obstacles so far, no gas pain, but I've been walking since about 3hours after I was woken up from anesthesia. Keeping fingers crossed that everything stays well. Speedy recovery to all those that has had their sleeve done recently.

Thanks @@proudgranny

All is well so far...trying to get as much liquid( water) down as to avoid dehydration, sip sip sip! No major obstacles so far, no gas pain, but I've been walking since about 3hours after I was woken up from anesthesia. Keeping fingers crossed that everything stays well. Speedy recovery to all those that has had their sleeve done recently.

All is well so far...trying to get as much liquid( water) down as to avoid dehydration, sip sip sip! No major obstacles so far, no gas pain, but I've been walking since about 3hours after I was woken up from anesthesia. Keeping fingers crossed that everything stays well. Speedy recovery to all those that has had their sleeve done recently.

All is well so far...trying to get as much liquid( water) down as to avoid dehydration, sip sip sip! No major obstacles so far, no gas pain, but I've been walking since about 3hours after I was woken up from anesthesia. Keeping fingers crossed that everything stays well. Speedy recovery to all those that has had their sleeve done recently.

All is well so far...trying to get as much liquid( water) down as to avoid dehydration, sip sip sip! No major obstacles so far, no gas pain, but I've been walking since about 3hours after I was woken up from anesthesia. Keeping fingers crossed that everything stays well. Speedy recovery to all those that has had their sleeve done recently.

Thanks everyone...tomorrow is the day show at 0730 and surgery at 0830!

Thanks @@Bigboy76! Yes I am now sleeved! Just got home. So far so good! I think I got most of the gas out! Just tightness around stomach area.

Thanks everyone, I'm recovering well..a little pain in the admiral area, but tolerable!

Today is the day!

@@poginut I'm here in the waiting area of the hospital now... Excited for the future! Good luck with your surgery and a speedy recovery!! I'll check on you tomorrow!

Today is the day!

Today is the day!

Today is the day!

I am excited but yet sooooo nervous! I'm so glad my wife and sons are so understanding of my anxiety...it is kicking in to the max! Happy recovery to those that had there sleeve so far this week and good luck and prayers to those that are about to have it!

I am excited but yet sooooo nervous! I'm so glad my wife and sons are so understanding of my anxiety...it is kicking in to the max! Happy recovery to those that had there sleeve so far this week and good luck and prayers to those that are about to have it!

@@proudgrammy thank you! I'm getting sleeved as well

I am excited but yet sooooo nervous! I'm so glad my wife and sons are so understanding of my anxiety...it is kicking in to the max! Happy recovery to those that had there sleeve so far this week and good luck and prayers to those that are about to have it!

I am excited but yet sooooo nervous! I'm so glad my wife and sons are so understanding of my anxiety...it is kicking in to the max! Happy recovery to those that had there sleeve so far this week and good luck and prayers to those that are about to have it!

I am excited but yet sooooo nervous! I'm so glad my wife and sons are so understanding of my anxiety...it is kicking in to the max! Happy recovery to those that had there sleeve so far this week and good luck and prayers to those that are about to have it!

I have some bad news I was doing really well until about 3 weeks post-op when I started having this very strange pain when eating. I immediately panicked and thought that the spasms were back. I had been off my Calcium channel blocker for spasms since surgery and I started taking it again the first night I felt the pain. The next day I started throwing up foam and undigested food so called my surgeon and the nurse said I probably have a stricture. I'm like OMG, not again!! That was a Friday and he couldn't do the endoscopy to look for the stricture until later in the week. Over the weekend anything that went down including Water came right back up within seconds, I called his exchange and he told me to come in Monday and he would fit me in. I started a new job as a nanny on Monday though and was spending the whole day with the newborn's mom so we made sure I was a good fit, I was so dehydrated that my hands were shaking and I was super pale, she noticed I didn't eat anything and was really worried about me (she is my fiance's sister so my well being is also important to her as family) so she decided that I was too sick to be a nanny and I needed to spend my time outside of school resting. She is probably right, holding a 13 pound baby and keeping up with him for eight hours a day is probably too much for only being 3 weeks out but never the less I was sad. On my way home, I felt terrible and I looked at my hands and the skin was nearly transparent, I could see hundreds of veins in my hand and fingers so at that point I know I was too dehydrated. I turned the car around and headed straight for the ER. When I got there they ran blood work and as I already knew I was extremely dehydrated and my potassium was dangerously low which I've had issues with before and have been on a cardiac floor on heart monitors while they replenished it. So, they admitted me right away NPO and first ran a pure potassium drip then pushed fluids as fast as they would go for a few hours. In the morning my surgeon did the EGD and saw that I have a marginal ulcer which is basically on the staple line between our pouch and the intestines. He kept me another night and started me on all kinds of medication for ulcers and pain then sent me home the following day. On Thursday I went in to see his PA and she admitted me back to the floor again because I still couldn't keep anything down and they are worried about my potassium/heart. I was on a saline potassium mix the whole time I was there and given lots of pain medicine and was basically told to just wait it out. I finally got to come home on Sunday and have been on bed rest not allowed to drive or lift over 10 pounds because of the severe dehydration and pain medicine.
This is all pretty depressing for me because this was supposed to fix everything for me and I was due some good luck but instead it just feels like problem after problem keeps occurring and I'm drowning in so much pain I have cried a lot this week just because I have to get fluids down to stay out of the hospital and it's so painful to swallow anything. I saw the doc again yesterday (Wednesday) and he gave me Phenergen instead of Zofran and upped my Amitriptiline to 75mg twice a day which knocks me out cold. He just wants me to be as comfortable as possible for a few days while my body heals and gave me the option of doing it at home or in the hospital. I obviously chose home because it's much more peaceful and I can actually rest. So, I'm on 3 different medications just for the ulcer, Lortab for pain, Phenergen for nausea, and Amitriptiline which is supposed to help me heal and let me get some sleep. I'm going back to see him tomorrow so they can do a Barium swallow to make sure everything is working properly and that the ulcer is the only problem.
The Phenergen is amazing, so so much better than Zofran. I have the suppositories which is awkward but really helpful because I can't throw it up which is what I am/was doing with some of my other meds. I wasn't even able to tolerate water or juice without severe pain previously and today I've been drinking juice and even had some mashed potatoes with very minimal pain which is wonderful! It feels so good to be able to eat food, I know that I still have to be really careful though and let the ulcer heal because I won't be able to take Phenergen for the rest of my life lol!
I'm trying to stay as positive as possible and tell myself that ulcers heal and then I'll be right back on the road to recovery but it's hard to believe that the pain will actually ever stop because it seems like I have a kick me sign on my back and just get every single complication imaginable. Also, these ulcers are just a side effect of surgery and usually aren't influenced by what you are eating which is nice to know so I don't blame myself, not that I ate anything remotely spicy or strayed from the diet at all. All of your prayers and good thoughts are greatly appreciated while I get through yet another complication, hopefully it will heal soon and I can continue progressing!