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Meeting a friend for lunch. Probably a bit overdressed. I should be wearing heels but its winter and they are all too loose! I also think I need some but and boob lifting underwear

I could understand if she hadn’t had surgery but when she has been through it herself it seems very odd

I don’t have one initially but I got taken back into theatre a couple of hours after my op so they inserted one then. It definitely made life easier not having to get out of bed for a couple of days.

That’s annoying. I also had an unexpected cost and I’m covered by PHI in Australia. I got taken back into theatre as there was concern that I had a bleed. No additional cost from the hospital or surgeon but I had to pay a second out of pocket fee for the anaesthetist!

I use Natvia ( stevia) .

Ewww

Yes low blood sugar symptoms are horrible. Tired, weak, shaky. They can come on quite quickly. I have had a number of times when I’ve been out and had to go and grab something from the supermarket because I feel horrible

Whar is occasionally daily? Daily isn’t occasionally it’s regularly.

I’m surprised that you are revising to the mini bypass if you have severe gerd, one of the potential side effects is severe bile reflux. Generally RNY is regarded as the best option for patients with GERD

I think it is important to aim for something in the healthy BMI range. That gives you quite a wide range to choose from. Personally I can’t see the point of putting yourself through surgery and then stopping at a weight that is still in the overweight or obese range. But once you start losing and getting closer to your goal you can reassess. You will probably find yourself pleasantly surprised

Are you sure you haven’t picked up a bug, it might be an idea to go and see your Dr and get checked

You are trying to look like your profile pic! I’m jealous that you’ve still got boobs, mine have shrunk immensely.

Your taste buds change and they keep changing so don’t stock up on heaps of stuff presurgery

I went band to bypass in Jan. Have lost all the weight I gained and am now sitting at goal

Off to a Christmas in July day with my quilt group. I'm going to need a couple more layers before I venture outside, its freezing.

Why would anyone go through surgery designed to help them get healthier and then continue to smoke.

I was able to eat all meats at that stage. I haven’t really struggled with any which is a complete contrast to when I had my band

Hopefully maintaining

Wow, that’s cutting it a bit fine. Fingers crossed that it all comes through in time

Jealous of all these little skimpy outfits. It’s winter here in Aus and it’s cold, wet and miserable. If I post a photo I will probably look like the abominable snowman, that’s once I manage to drag myself out of my nice warm bed.

Your surgeon should have given you info that gives percentages of complications. Generally they are pretty low.

I would get a second opinion. You are better off delaying this so you can make the right decision. You don’t want to have to go through another revision later on

That’s the worst over, now for a nice speedy recovery

You have bad reflux you need to avoid the sleeve, it can make it worse. It seems strange that your surgeon would revise you to a sleeve with your reflux history. Generally the recommended route would be to have a Roux en Y Gastric Bypass.

Yes the checkup went well, surgeon is happy with me and doesn’t want to see me for 12 months. I do have another checkup with the physician before that though. My recovery took a while. I had the op, woke up in recovery and was fine, minimal pain which was well controlled. A couple of hours later I was sitting up in bed enjoying the ice that I was now allowed to suck when I felt myself fading. Shouted to the nursing staff that they should bring the crash cart although as I was hooked up to BP monitors etc I think they would have come running anyway. BP was at approx 75/45. I then had the ECG machine attached , I remember being horribly cold and of course that made it worse. ED docs were called who were ultrasounding me as they were looking for a bleed.Nurse was poking me like a pincushion desperately trying to get a cannula into my collapsed veins. They cross matched and ordered me blood and decided I needed to go back to the OR. All I could think the whole time was this is it, I’m going to die! Got taken to the OR, scrawled a sig for the anaesthetist but my surgeon said it was ok if I wasn’t up to it he didn’t need me to sign again. Next thing I remember is waking up in ICU thinking I’m alive, yay.Had those sock things on that inflate and deflate and had a lovely nurse. I had been given 2 units of blood in theatre and got given another 2 late that day. That in itself is a bit scary especially when your temp starts spiking. The whole experience left me feeling like I had been hit by a truck! Luckily in the second op they had catheterised me so I didn’t have to get up. The next thing that happened was approx 5 nights later I started wheezing and feeling like I couldn’t breath,it was horrible I hardly slept all night and was by now convinced that I was going to die! Luckily when my physician did his rounds in the morning he ordered the staff to nebulise me. NB. I am not normally asthmatic.Went home that day. Hubby works , I don’t so from then on I was home alone. Still felt pretty yucky but no real pain or issues drinking. I started feeling like I was unbalanced with no idea why. I had to get a friend to take me for my 2 week dietician app as I didn’t feel capable of driving. The weird unbalanced feeling lasted approx a month. I saw my GP about it a couple of times. I was given 2 lots of antibiotics, decongestants etc and none of them worked. The thing that finally seemed to kick it was a nasal spray! So I’m not sure if it was a side effect of the anaesthesia, an infection or an imbalance in the ears due to fat loss there ( look it up, it is a thing) Since is then I have been fine. What appears to have happened is that when the trocars were inserted one must have hit a minor blood vessel which was bleeding in between the layers of the stomach. There was nothing of any consequence found when I was taken for the second surgery, I didn’t have a leak or anything. When I got home my stomach looked like I needed to be taken to Charlie’s dejuicing room, I even joked about that with my surgeon. Do I regret the surgery, no. Would I have regretted it if I had died , well probably not as I would have been dead but my family might have!