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How about your jewelry (rings) after surgery?
pik replied to pik's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Sorry, it's called speed bump. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgrefurl=http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/my-ring-is-a-little-big/&tbnid=48wKrVAr1L1s9M:&docid=KbIrROzwRHOrdM&h=226&w=170 -
Did anyone else have issues coming out of recovery?
pik replied to pik's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I hope it is much sooner than next year, but thank you very much!!! It has been a rough way to go. I have no idea how you and your husband did this on the same day!!! -
I have had my medicine stuck twice and it was awful. I know what you are going through. Both times I spent all day vomiting what seemed to be an impossible amount given I hadn't had anything to eat or drink in quite a while. I would be very careful with trying to avoid throwing up. I ended up with Pancreatitis over it all.
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RNY caused me to lose my friends
pik replied to jtickle's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
You know, I have always been one to not have many friends. Most all of my friends have been male, and they don't seem to be that way. At any rate, I moved away from a lot of people and now I have a very small circle of friends. My best friend is my fiance and we are wonderful together, such a blessing to have him. I have another friend who I am not super close to but we seem to be closer since the surgery. I guess it has given us more in common because she has had the same surgery I have several years ago. She also gave birth on the same day as my surgery. That is her first child, so no we have being a parent in common as well. You know, I have said it in this thread before, but I am gonna say it again. Any friend that you lose to WLS was never truly a friend to begin with. -
Over the counter medications; lets discuss.
pik replied to pik's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
That is actually a huge deal for me because I have Rheumatoid Arthritis. I stopped taking IBU about a month before my surgery to get used to not being able to have it. I have done ok in that respect but I will say that I have been hospitalized twice for medicine getting stuck. -
I am not sure what's normal, but the same thing happened to me. It still does and I am almost a month post op.
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Your welcome, of course! =)
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RNY caused me to lose my friends
pik replied to jtickle's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I was quoting Leena here. I don't know what happened to my quote! -
Thank you. You know, I take Zofran during the day and it isn't helping much. I take Phenergan in the evening and it knocks me out. It helps but I don't want to be passed out all day... I started out today feeling a lot better but I am still having problems with the nausea. You know, I am discouraged about this surgery but I am not depressed. I suppose that is a good thing. It really has been a bumpy road. I guess it will look up. At least the pain is gone now... Thank you!
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RNY caused me to lose my friends
pik replied to jtickle's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I am so sorry this has happened to you. I guess I have been lucky because my fiance' has done everything. He took me to the hospital for the surgery and stayed the whole day and into the night and to the ER every time I have had to go, visiting me each day. Took care of everything at home, and took care of me. This happened tp me in 2007 after I had the band. I lost my mother to jealous fits once I went from a size 28 to 16. I had complications with my band and had to have it removed jn April and revised to bypass in July. Now I have a partner who is so unhappy with me. He resents me being sick due to complications from The band and now the bypass. He's had the bypass himself. The only other people that know about it are my grandmother, kids and their Dad. I've only told one of my friends I revised for fear if loosing the others. They all know my band came out and think I went back in to have damage repaired which I did ( 2 hernias, adhesions and scar tissue and liver biopsies). I've had 3 hospital stays since removal and don't want to deal with any more fall out from this. It already looks like I'll be moving out and no longer with my partner once Im recovered enough to do so. I absolutely hate being yelled at, cursed at and stuck at home because of complications. He thinks I'm ruining his life because he took a few hours off of work to drop me off at the hospital- and that I cant go out anywhere. And that he's "picking up the slack". Meanwhile I have a home nurse and my teenagers have been picking up things at the pharmacy and local convience store, their Dad even brought down groceries. And I've started ordering things like Protein shakes on amazon (still on liquids). I hate asking him to do anything as I get comments like he's not my servant. I was so sick post op that my kids were helping me shower, helping me up the stairs and in and out of the chair I've been sleeping on. They've been cleaning the house daily and have taken turns sleeping on the couch so they could help me out of the chair in the middle if the night so i could go to the bathroom.. Week 3 I was finally able to do those things on my own. At one point their father came down to take care of me because they told them how I was being treated. He took me to the hospital for my first snd second stay and a few appointments. It does really hurt to loose people as a result of them not being able to handle your surgery. But it is for the best- what's worse is being stuck there with them. Things haven't been very easy for me since my surgery, but I think he knows I would do the same for him. You know, maybe he isn't the one for you. I will be marrying my fiance' in sickness and in health next year. He already knows I come with sickness. I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and Epilepsy along with all of the issues the surgery has caused me. I am so sorry, and I hope things turn up for you. -
On the website at the very top where it says hell (your name). You right click on it and there is a menu. You also have to make sure in your profile that you allow your weight to be seen.
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Oh no. I have been back in the hospital twice through the ER. When I pinch my skin it goes right back down..... You have a point about the BP, though. It was pretty low in the hospital. Something is going to have to change with that. I have to take some high BP med for migraines and that may now be issue. Thanks for the advice.
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That's how I was too, but never at the incisions. Very minimal at the other areas.
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Well with the nausea I am having a real hard time getting in the fluids. I try, but it is not nearly as much as I need.
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First one month check-up clear for solid food! woohoo!
pik replied to FairySleeve's topic in The Lounge
Oh, well I wasn't telling you not to listen to your surgeon, I was just telling you what my guidelines were.... -
I think it took me about a week too but the more you move around the quicker it dissipates. I do agree it's horrible....
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First one month check-up clear for solid food! woohoo!
pik replied to FairySleeve's topic in The Lounge
Wow. I will not be able to eat rice or noodles until 6-9 months post op. -
Hallelujah -- I'm OVERWEIGHT!
pik replied to Ginger Snaps's topic in Weight Loss Surgery Success Stories
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I am having the same problem. Plain Water makes me nauseous and so does water with Crystal Lite. I am not getting in a fraction of the fluids I should be getting in. My Protein shakes that were always fine make me feel the same way. At this point, my surgeon doesn't seem to be worried about my protein, but my fluids. He wantsme to try sugar free gatorade and anything else that I can to get the fluids in.
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Yesterday was week 3 for me and I gained weight, but that was due to all of the Fluid they put in me in the hospital. I have lost all but a pound of it so far. At this point I am having issues with fluids, to include the Protein, so I am sure I will meet a plateau here soon.
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I have had nausea ever since my surgery on 7/16... I have been hospitalized 2x after my surgery and they really didn't do much about it but give me zofran. At home I take phenergan in the evenings.
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Maybe with the weight loss, you are "holding your head up higher!"
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I was told not to eat it until 6-9 months post surgery. (No pasta, rice,etc)
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Are you not taking a sublingual B12?
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I am out of the hospital now, for the third time and I have had nausea the whole time ever since after my surgery. I am 3 weeks s/p surgery today. I have even been wearing the little Patches you get by prescription for motion sickness. I hate to have to take phenergan throughout the day because it knocks me out. I see my surgeon for hospital follow up of the second stay tomorrow and I am going to let him know about it. Has anyone else had this problem?