Frustr8

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Challenge starting weight 272 Surgery weight 319 (9/5/18) Pounds lost since HW 93 pounds (10/17) Exercise minimal, diet restriction with stricture, attempting to upgrade daily, but still bouts of dizziness.

I was on Dexilent next, took it faithfully, felt results were good, was faithful up into my bariatric surgery time. Afterward what should rear it's ugly head but omeprazole. Oh no no, I told them THAT doesn't work for me. Their excuse: you can open those capsules and pour it on food or stir into applesauce. Moot point on the capsule opening, I was willing to cut the Dexilent capsules open if that was the rationale.Why not give me something that works instead of that stuff. But they insisted and I finally bent,to their will. 2 weeks in I stated THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG, and at first I was poo!pooed, You're swollen, give yourself time to heal, you're imagining things, my favorite We Are The Bariatric Weight Team, We Know What Is Best For Your Body, yeah Your Degree- My Body! Finally, I suspect, to shut me up they scheduled me an endoscopy, an EGJ, because of course, a bypassers duodenum is never easily visualized again, only the jejunem can be, the price RNY pays. And who was right? ME ME ME! I have lived in this body many years, give me a little credit please! And in addition to the stricture I thought I hand who should be there except 5 new nasty little ulcers 2 in the pouch near the stomal openings and 3 more on the back wall of the,jejunem, all grown with daily dosing of omeprazol. I have had scoping 12th October, 26th October, 9th November and another 23 November, just don' t have designated time yet. And,last time Dr Noria stated the ulceration is worse, I cannot longer be in the presence of an active smoker, indeed not even someone who has tobacco residue on their clothing, I am not yet bleeding or ready to perforated but who knows? Of the precipitating risks? Ischemia from the operation, Roux limb tension, dehydration, difficult to move past when Precious Pouch accepts no more than 3 ounces of anything without active rebellion. And after 10+ weeks it is emotionally wearying, so I have gone back to mini-cup therapy every 15 minutes, manage to get medications, vitamins, minerals in , thing,i may be living on them instead of effective calories. And since I am still on a limited Stage 2 diet it is difficult to be dietarily indisecreet. I have been on Zofran 3 times daily, now have added Carafate every 6 hours around the clock. James I would like to receive some,joy by now! I am dropping weight like an anorexic sailor, I'm tired, dizzy if I exercise very much. Clothes much looser, some people have noticed my weight loss, the average person can't be bothered to care. And I keep on keeping on and yearn for a change.????

Thanks James for weighing in , I really value your insight on so much. In Fact when I saw it was you responding, I said" Frustr8 You finally have arrived!" To answer you, yes I definitely was tested last November(2017) by my gastroenterologist when he discovered Hector my little baby ulcer with my gastritis, I was negative for h. Pylori, that's why the determination was made that he probably was due to excessive NSAID usage. My ortho suggested almost daily usage of ibuprofen for chronic arthritic pain, PCP said, since you are a BIG ?, you can easily handle a 4 at time dosage, Thanks guys for your faulty advice! When I first complained of gastro symptoms to PCP he put me on Prilosec,(omeprazole)-- when symptoms didnt seem to alleviate is when I first visited Dr Mujataba, my gastroenterologist. And although the sequence is to have your Primary Care refer one to a specialist, I marched in on my own, because to be honest I was peeved at PCP and his danged omeprazole that was enriching the pharmacy coffers and doing nothing much for me. FYI I do not believe that blasted drug is gastroprotective for ME.

My pet peeve- I don't if it is resolvable-!! Well here it goes. My body is giving me the sensation that it is SUPER HUNGRY. May be true hunger, head hunger, the mostly evil 5 new ulcers, the ones developed after*surgery while on Omeprazole therapy. I told NP, dieticians et all, that drug IS NOT GASTROPROTECTIVE in my case. Did they listen? Nope like a spoiled 5 year old they sat there ignoring ME. They may have the degrees , I just have the body, now with a fresh not yet bleeding, not yet perforating. 5 evil ulcers. TOLD YOU SO ! Their answer: double up on what didn't already work! And I have a stricture, oh they poo-pooed me on THAT also, told them at 2 weeks I don't think SOMETHING is working , their answer You're Swollen and still healing! Well maybe so but I sure healed into a STRICTURE. So here I am , my body and emotions saying Danger Will,Robinson-- You are starving, heading for a sorrowful malabsorption And Hospitalization?on IVs- NPO- TPN or a Feeding Tube. And also in that ring is Precious Pouch, the spoiled- brat gastric pouch. She feels there is no soft food, no puree, worth her trouble. So_ repulse_ them_ all. ? Liquids are fine & Liquids are sweet whenever I've got them*** Everything else comes up before it hardly hits bottom***. The one blessings twisted as it is-- nothing really stays down long enough to develop a partially digested odor. Slime-foam- fluid and what she is repelling. Another mini-question , since she is so proficent at upchucking will she remain Bulemic/anorexic after the Stricture is released? I really though I bought the" Healthier and Thinner for the Rest of Your Life" model not the "Delicate and Bruised as Easily as A Gardenia Petal "model. Did I get the Shipping # Wrong? So Bari-People I invite you help me find the ☀in the ☁?☔of my current life!

So who all will be joining???? Hurty,hurry, it's going to be a Special time Everyone!?????

Well@ Excited for a new me, Queebee34,OlRachel, Wicked winner. Are any of you ready to join Lyleta in December? Its a beautiful month to give yourself?the gift of an renewed life and better health!

So Netflix and the others are worth the future expense? I hate commiting to something I thought i wanted and then curse myself for spending the money.

Well my birthday is December 26th, my first with Precious Pouch, the world's first bratty RyN pouch. Maybe, hope against home, I will be on real food, I am harboring an innate fear I will require a open surgical alleivination to what seems chronic, gosh I can heal without it, but sometimes I am losing corage.

Maybe you will have lost the plot he is expecting, but you are in the midst of writing a brand new story, a journal no one else has read or known of. Just be the best elcee ever known and let the world take of itself???

Almost There @ cyguy1, your Finish Line is within ?eyesight. And then it is on to your SURGIBIRTHDAY and a bright New Future. You Can Do It, yes You Can!????

Funny, I have always wanted some Glamour Shots myself, although at my "OMG You're Not Dead Yet?" age am I being foolish? You see, I may be feeling I have more right to them. Deep inside I have felt cool, competent and sexy all along, it just had SO FAR and so much to work through to surface out!

Posters swear by Injury Chicken Soup,and several homemade things similar.

Well it is a Big Life-Changing incident to come in your Life. That said You have come so very very far, don't get the whim-wahs, of you postpone you may regret it, regret can eat you up inside. I have ate Regret Stew several times in my life, not a very satisfying meal. Learn from ME? Please.

Yeah @Beta98 but your tastes may change post-surgery, at least your taste buds will. Whole thread on "Used to eat___Now I can't stand sight, smell or taste of it!"

That's one of those "Surely that CAN'T BE right!" things that usually is.???

Come on Melissa Kay, you're a past winner, show him how a veteran can do this!???

A couple of months ago another poster said it did, and I believe she had search results to prove it. Another PCOS joy to be visited on US, a tendancy to grow facial hair. I'm told in Latin cultures it is regarded as SEXY, hey Jose, Miguel, Antonio, Reynoldo---over here---I'm Waiting!

From your mouth? to Almighty God's ? Ear!

Yeah I have said before the items will have a milk-chocolate instead of the dark intense k8nd.

well goody gum drops for that!

So they DO reruns on NETFLIX OF 600 LB WIFE.

I would prefer that to chicken bone broth, it tastes like what was, a chicken carcass someone stewed and stewed. Need to add some veggies even if I have to really strain them out, they grant some glamor and taste.

And an warm welcome from a RnY,to a future one. Missouri-Lee. summit , Fluffy chix. myself , we are all Ryn in various stages of healing. So we have our own perspective on things.

There should be a place in Hades, a very nasty place in Hades for aoneone molests or abuses children. Children are our World' s future and they do not deserve any pain, any suffering, any fears and sorrow. The adult world can be mean, but do not visit adult sin on little innocent people.????