Hi folks,

I would go into greater detail right now about my experience but as I sit here, I am fighting back major pain in my chest and am in desperate help.

For all those who have had the plication or even if you are on the boards Dr. Watkins, what can I do to help alleviate this servere tightening pain in my chest. I am on day 3 from surgery, my first day home. While I was in the hospital, the pain meds they gave me via IV worked like a charm. When I was experiencing the chest pains, they would give me the pain injection in my IV and it would go away. Now that i am at home, with supradol as prescribed by doctor, it doesn't work! I tried crushing extra strength tylenols as well at doesn't work either. Both actually cause me to be naseaus and throw up the little liquids that I have in my system. I'm not able to sleep at all with this pain and lying flat on my back, sitting up, lying sideways and even piling pillows up and lying face down on them while sitting up doesn't help.

Please if anyone can offer any help please let me know. I don't know if I can endure this pain which is causing me to have cold sweats due to how much it hurts.

Thinking of you and praying that all is well.

Praying for both of you. Stay strong and please keep us updated.

I'm so sad to read this. I hope JG is back in good health soon. My thoughts and prayers are with her.

Thoughts, prayers and best wishes coming her way. Please keep us informed as we all are pulling for her. I will pray for speedy healing, peace and for her to rest comfortably.

We pray for her safe and speedy recovery soon.

OK so the elephant in the room. Is this common with plication? I know true sleeves can get leaks if they don't heal up properly. Anybody know?

Wonder how she is doing?

Hope she's doing well. Does anyone know who performed the surgery? Her situation is very scary and my thoughts are with her.

This is totally scary. I have never heard of this happening before. How did she get a hole in her stomach and part of her stomach die? Was she plicated too tightly? This surgery has been advertised as so safe with few if any complications. I guess it was just a matter of time. I feel so bad for her and pray she survives this. It sounds like her whole abdominal cavity is infected by the stomach contents. I do hope we get an update soon. I have been thinking of her all the time. It's good we have this group to care about one another!

This is the first time I've ever heard of this happening with Plication surgery. All of them have risks (band can cause scar tissue, slip, etc, Sleeve can have leaks from staples, and of course the Gastric Bypass I think has the highest risk.)

This is really baffling, and I wonder very much what caused her complication.

We pray for them and hope to hear some good news soon. Please keep us updated.

I am so sorry you are so sick. I will be praying for you to have a fast and complete recovery. Please update us on your status when you can. I am scheduled to have this procedure done this Friday and this really scares me.

Anyone have an update on how she is doing? I'm sure her hubby is just overwhelmed with all this.

Anyone have an update on how she is doing? I'm sure her hubby is just overwhelmed with all this.

I know I have checked a few times to see if she has been on line or posted anything new... nothing for a while...

Very worried...hope she is recovering and healing.

OK so the elephant in the room. Is this common with plication? I know true sleeves can get leaks if they don't heal up properly. Anybody know?

Wonder how she is doing?

Since I did not perform JG's surgery I cannot speculate what may have happened. We certainly have not seen this in our plication patients and complications like this should be incredibly rare because there is no stapling or cutting of the intestines involved. I echo the thoughts and prayers sent by the members of this forum that JG have a complete recovery.

Brad Watkins MD

I'm so sorry to hear that. That is unfortunate. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.