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MonicaEMT

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    Congratulations! You are on your way to a new you. As for packing either comfortable slippers or sneakers, as you should be walking a lot in the hospital. I packed pjs for sleep, but I wore loose fitting, comfortable capris or short set to wear during the day, because again you will be out walking a lot. Then a comfortable outfit to go home in. Good luck to you!

    Thank you

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    Each one of us attended a two year program where we lost weight if we could naturally, went to meetings, seminars, bariatric team discussions etc. We had exhaustive tests and each were either given the sleeve or bypass. My friend who had bypass was in a program that offered Excess skin removal after year one. They moved the goalposts to year two. Then they discontinued the excess skin removal agreement. She can only eat a few foods so lost all of her hair because she can't eat Proteins and has constant diarrhea. She is miserable.

    All of us feel that during the two years, we were not given full and honest information regarding after effects. We weren't given any medication to prevent damage to our gallbladders nor were we warned they might have to be removed.

    We weren't given information regarding food revulsion, inability to eat through the food stages, constant diarrhea, lactose intolerance etc.

    We also were not told of the amount of people in our program who had complications after surgery, and we asked. My surgeon still says my surgery was "textbook" and declares his record as problem free despite my having severe complications and still being ill 8 weeks post op.

    So we feel mislead. All three of us that had sleeves had severe post op complications. One had an abscess on her spleen and Fluid on her lungs and spent weeks in hospital on IV antibiotics. Her sleeve leaked and had to be re done. She is still really ill.

    One of us was in intensive care for six weeks, had to have a tracheotomy and was on the critical list, he is still gravely ill.

    I had a 6.6 cm abdominal abscess that nearly killed me, spent weeks in hospital, dropped over 60lbs in 4 weeks, which might have killed my gallbladder, was given a near fatal dose of Cyclizine which caused lingering stroke symptoms and I am still ill on fluids at 8 week post op and can't eat any Proteins, am now lactose intolerant, I will have my gallbladder out once the abscess clears, if I am brave enough. My wounds haven't healed yet from the sleeve op yet. I can't tolerate any Vitamins etc I am supposed to take. And the aftercare we receive has been awful and totally confusing.

    We all also feel that we were not fully informed about eating after the sleeve. We were told that once we got through the stages, we would be eating normally, just small portions.

    We weren't told how many of us die each year from malnutrition here in the UK.

    On discharge, we were given a booklet regarding food stages and foods that might cause problems.

    None of us would have had our surgeries if we had had this booklet before our sleeves.

    So no, we can't get together as we are all at home, ill, mostly on antibiotics and other treatments, facing more serious ops and treatments, months after our sleeves. Most of us battling dehydration.

    Another lady we know has lost over 120lbs in 8 weeks. She is still in hospital and they don't know what's wrong yet.

    We feel that we have been made permanently disabled by this surgery and not given accurate information so that we could make informed decisions.

    I researched this thoroughly and asked questions and was told not to worry, that they rarely had problems. They split the statistics up so that the complications are shown as ward aftercare etc.

    Four out of four of us is not rare, but a 100% complication rate.

    Yes, we will all have to accept our stupid decision. Our families will get over the trauma of us nearly dying from complications. I am in counselling via telephone.

    We are all just hoping to be well enough to drive a car again, go to church again, eat enough food to live again. (I am still only getting 300 or so calories but I am up from 100 calories a day for six weeks).

    I am not "fighting" this sleeve. I am learning to live with an elective disablement.

    Maybe this is just the difference in healthcare between countries. None of us were above 250lbs, all of us could walk normally, only one of us had diabetes and still has it two years post op after all the weight was lost.

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    I am so sorry to hear about all of the complications all of you are going through. I feel like the medical team that did all of you guys surgery needs to answer for it because I feel like they did something wrong. I don't think it's the procedure itself but I am keeping you guys in my prayers and I hope that all of you make a FULL recovery..

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    Seriously. I hear you on this. If one more person tells me I look too skinny I'm going to lose my **** SMH. I'm 5 foot 3 and 148 pounds because I recently gained 3 pounds and I'm still getting these bullshit comments. Don't people realize it's rude to say someone looks too skinny just like it is to say someone looks too fat? Especially a person that used to be fat and then tell them that now they look too f**king skinny!!

    You look great

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