I'm possibly scheduling my surgery for July 10th but I have family coming in from out of town on August 6th who want to go hiking and do other strenuous physical activities. My surgeon's front desk staff is telling me I'll be fine, but I don't know. How were you all at 4 weeks post-op? Could you have gone for a multi-mile hike in a national park?

Has anyone heard that you have to give yourself blood thinner shots??

I ment to say after surgery...

I have never heard of that, but if you have coagulation issues, I could see where that may be a possibility.

Has anyone heard that you have to give yourself blood thinner shots??

I've seen a few people on the board mention that they had to do this to prevent blood clots after surgery. I have no idea if it's standard practice for some surgeons or if they only do it if the patient has had an issue with clots in the past.

Oh ok, I didn't think about that...Thanks guys

My husband was up and running around mowing the lawn on Friday after his monday VSG - I was excited that the he was feeling so good so soon, I went in for my surgery two weeks later and it was like being hit by a mac truck, I expected to go home the next day and was in the hospital for a week - with internal bleeding, hematocrit (sp) dropped to 18 and had multiple blood transfusions and when I finally got home I had a suture split open and it was one giant bloody mess that sent me back to the hospital.

I deeply hope that no one has any form of complication but I was not expecting what I went through - which is nothing compared to what some folks have had complication wise here. They do happen.

I do have a blood cloting disorder called Factor 2. A couple years ago I developed a blood clot in my right arm. Had to give myself blood thinning shots in my stomach for 10 days. So I am going to ask about needing the lovenox shots.

I was sent home on lovenox shots for 10 days