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I'm not feeling good to day I feel dizzy when I get up I threw up earlier to day and I felt I little notious this morning after I ate. Yesterday my truck broke down and I had no choice but to push it so I'm just wondering if I might of gotten a leak but I don't have any temp or left side pain I feel weak today very irrataided I feel pain when I eat I don't know if it's normal but every time I eat it's very little and I don't get a full felling it's more like a weird pain so just need some advice on on leaks like for example

How fast do u start feeling sings of a leak and my face feel hot but no temp

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Go, better safe than sorry.

Here's some info I found by doing a quick Google search:

Stomach Leak

This is potentially a life threatening complication. Fortunately, leak after Gastric Sleeve is rare, occurring in 1 out of 100 patients. It occurs when a hole or gap develops somewhere along the staple line closure allowing stomach juice to escape into the abdominal cavity. A severe infection develops that can lead to sepsis (adverse symptoms involving all body systems) or septic shock (low blood pressure with injury to all body systems). Multiple Organ Failure can occur which is basically a shut down of many organ systems. With time this can lead to death.

Symptoms of stomach leak include: rapid heart rate, dizziness, shortness of breath, fever, worsening abdominal pain, left chest or shoulder pain, abdominal distention, the appearance of illness and a general feeling that something is very wrong. Unfortunately, many of the symptoms may be absent or could be from something else (e.g. bleeding). Diagnosing a leak is further complicated by the fact that there is no single, reliable test to definitely diagnose a leak.

The diagnosis of a leak must be clinical, that is, the surgeon must consider all symptoms in relation to the timing after surgery. The diagnosis can never be 100% sure before treatment. If a leak is suspected the patient must go back to the operating room for an OPEN SURGERY to close the hole and clean up the leak. Usually, the patient will need to spend some time in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and rarely may require mechanical ventilation, temporary dialysis, and/or medications to support the blood pressure. Clearly, the key factor with a bowel leak is an early return to the operating room, even if the diagnosis is not assured.

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