vicki s

I know alot of people post this concern, I have seen it too....Please dont tell me to stay off the scale, I have been through this nightmare already.....I was a sleeve to bypass revision on august 1st, but when i got my sleeve I was on the other site titled "sleeve talk"...and soon after my sleeve, I saw that my weight loss was lagging behind everyone who was sleeved at the same time I was..then, I just stopped losing..actually as soon as the post op diet ended...I have lived on salad and grilled chicken for 3 yrs, and the wt would not come off..I knew I could eat alot, it wasnt my choices in food, it was the volume...Now I feel like I am living that nightmare all over again...I lost 11 lbs the first 11 days, then i stopped and now i've gained 2 lbs...I am so scared...the doctor told me i had a stretched fundus, upper part of the stomach, that he could not shave off due to scar tissue after the band and it had stretched to allow alot of food...he said he had learned how to get behind the scar tissue now and was going to fix my sleeve.....I agreed, but 1 week later i called and told him I wanted bypass, i didnt want to take a chance that it wouldn't work and i would fail again....So, I had the GBS, then one week post op he told me he left the excess out pouch and just lopped off the bottom of my stomach....NOOOOOO.......what????....I dont know why I didnt say anything that day...last Friday as a matter of fact...but i didn't and now he is on vacation and I wont see him till sept 10th...Im sure if I do say something he will only blow it off anyway...but now I feel like I am living my last nightmare of surgery without the benefit of wt loss....I am walking, eating right, but no wt loss and a 2 lbs gain to boot!! sorry for ranting but I am so depressed right now, I dont even know what to do with myself....I look around and everyone is losing faster and more than me just like the last surgery....I dont even know how to close this rant so I will just say thanks for listening.....

my doc said it starts about 3-4 mos. post op and is partially diet and surgical stress and lack of protein....

congratulations!!

I'm the same way. Wonder why my dr never put this fact in my paperwork? Seems like it would have been an important fact to include!! Does anyone know when these nerves come back..

I was told we have to take calcium citrate, because after surgery our bodies aren't capable of absorbing calcium carbonate...

I was clear liquids until discharged fro the hospital then full liquids for 1 week, then puree for 1 week

Omg....so sorry for you...I had a blood clot before surgery as well..so can relate to your story, but to have it after bypass, I cant even imagine....hugs and prayers are coming your way...best wishes, I am sure you will be fine going forward...xoxo

Just checking in to see how you are progressing...are you out of the hospital yet? Hoe is the eating going. Hope all is well...

maybe he is afraid your going to sue him...LOL....he sounds like an idiot...so sorry you are going through all this...see if you can find another doctor to take care of you.....

remember, you are paying him, he works for you, too bad if he is annoyed, maybe he should get a job at mcdonalds if he cant handle it....dont let him bully you...grrrrrrrrrrrr......sorry, but that makes me soooo angry....good luck to you, i hope for all our sakes they come up with something we can take....

Prayers and hugs sent your way!

Wow DL look what you started LOL...an avalanche!!! Thanks again for my copy!

does the full feeling last or do you does the full feeling last, or do you want to eat every hour...sorry so many questions, but after failing with the sleeve and now stalling and only losing 11 lbs im so scared this wont work for me either.....

I'm not getting full on applesause and yogurt, did you .?..please tell me you feel a huge difference between full liq and now?

I was told never...not even one...I'm sorry,,I have terrible arthritis...what did your doc say

suger free popcycles and jello too!

we are probably all dehydrated the first few weeks, I feel like I can drink more and more everyday...

sip sip sip, are you urinating, I think I am dehydrated too...I dont Pee! only 1 or 2 times at night..as long as your not really dizzy, or feeling sick and you have figured out how to get your liquids in, you would probably be ok to wait...do you have a fever?

Wow, I consider myself lucky, i see the NUT free and just guidelines to follow with my own foods! Im so sorry for you I dont know what I would have done...

Good luck Joy and Missy...Your going to rock!!

I was told if I got sick before surgery to call my PCP and get it taken care of immediately...doesnt mean you cant have surgery, but just get as healthy as you can for the day...

I have a very large lump near one of the port sites, It hurts so bad I can barely move sometimes...I am 1 wk post op, and the doc told me the other day it was prob. fluid...it is not getting better by the day...It is making me miserable..none of the other port sites are even painful let alone swollen...did anyone have this issue...I have a larg grape sized one now near where they took out the drain, but not near as big as this other one....thanks

yay!!!