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Woke up yesterday morning feeling fine. About 2 hrs later I started having pain in my upper ab right below the ribs. It radiates around to my back. As it continued to get worse throughout the day I finally called my Sleeve Dr. to make sure it wasn't anything from that. The pain was so intense I finally told my husband to just take me to the ER. Come to find out I have a severly inflammed pancreas and gallbladder. My blood work was very elevated as well. They said this is fairly common in patients after gastric surgery. I don't remember reading that but then again I know I scanned over a lot. Now I sit here in the hospital for the 2nd day with a tube going into my nose down into my stomach. I am getting morphine and zofran every 4 hrs and wishing this was a thing of the past.

Anyone else have this happen to them???

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Isnt pancreatitis associated with a leak?

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I hope you are feeling better. I never heard that before regarding the pancreas. I heard about the gall bladder....did one infect the other? I will being prying for you.

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I had complictions....5 weeks in hosp. i am letting ya know that you are the bomb to tolerate the NG tube. I had one and pulled it out. Much later i had 32 days with an NJ tube.....I know this is hard and you just want to be home. One day at a time..it does get better. i have my NJ tube still....i hope you get sleep..ask for something if necessary. cannot get better without recuperative sleep and that is hard to do as in-pt. i hope you feel better and get home soon. you can get through this!!!

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How far post op are you Lisa?

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I am 3.5 months post op. I HATE the tube. It makes me gag all the time. Not helpful with how I feel.

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I have heard of gall bladder attacks from the surgery. My surgeon put me on Antigall for 6 months to prevent post op gall bladder problems.

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Poor angel. This happened to me long before surgery. 5 days in hospital npo with pancreatitis. until they could remove the gallbladder . Hang in there

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I didn't have pancreatitis but a leak. I HATED the NG tube. It was one of the worst things about being in the hospital. I'm telling you the removal was the best/worst 3 seconds of my life. Like you, it made me gag so much. I was in zofran, phenergan, toradol, and a scop patch just for nausea. And the morphine. Strict npo for over a month.

If there is any advice I can give you it's this: DO NOT let them send you home without tapering off your pain meds!!! I got 1mg morphine every 6 minutes for a month and they sent me home cold turkey. Almost ended back in the hospital because I was so sick to my stomach.

Good luck! Keep us posted! And soon enough this will all be a thing of the past :)

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I have done well for the last month. No issues at all. I am having my gallbladder removed next Tuesday, April 30. I think I'm looking forward to this surgery as much as I was my sleeve! Lol

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