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Hi guys, of course I have jumped through tons of hoops and loops over the past few months. I went and had my chest x-ray done and was sent for an echo. I did the echo probably over two months ago and have surgery scheduled for this coming Tues. I went to pre-op this past tues and pre-registered as well. I received a phone call yesterday around 3 pm saying that I needed to be at the hospital Mon morning for a ct. They say that my echo showed an enlarged heart and something about the right ventricle. My surgeon has looked at the echo twice and was comfortable with the surgery, however, the anesthesiologist is refusing unless the ct is performed Mon and he is able to be there and look at the test. I'm worried now that I can't have the surgery and if they do go ahead with it, am I at a higher risk. Has anyone else had this problem?

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I have an enlarged heart (cardiomyopathy) and was approved for surgery. I was worried about having heart failure during the sleeve surgery because it had happened during my last c-section. My heart is enlarged due to rhemaric fever and pregnancy. The condition worsens if you are very obese because your heart has to work harder. In my opinion, an enlarged heart is a good reason to have bariatric surgery. You will feel so much better once the weight starts coming off. My surgery was successful without any big complications. However, you have to listen to the professionals. My EKG, echocardiogram, and chest x-ray was fine prior to surgery,so I went ahead with it. That isn't to say I still wasn't worried about heart failure during surgery. I'm still advised not to ever get pregnant again, which is fine by me for now.

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I know this sounds crazy, but, I had my gall bladder removed in 2013 and my ekg and everything came back normal. When it came time for me to have all my testing down for the sleeve, the tests started showing abnormalities. I have good, kinda low b/p. Tuesday when I went for registration and labs, it was 97/62. I don't have diabetes, the only medication I'm on is birth control and synthroid for my thyroid. I am confused as to how my heart was normal last year and is enlarged this year. I haven't seen a cardiologist because no one had made me aware of this situation, until the anesthesiologist was concerned yesterday. I know that obesity will cause the heart to work harder so I guess now, I have to wait test results, and go from there on Monday. I just feel that I've been through so much the past few months to get approval and ready for the sleeve, and now two days out from surgery, something else has came up.

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I was sent for a stress test prior to surgery. The cardiologist found an issue and I had to have a heart catherization. Shrt story they found a abdominal aortic aneurism. I had to have immediate surgery that saved my life. A year later I had my sleeve and have very successful.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. LeighaTR

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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