Hello all,

I was sleeved in September 2012 and lost about 70lbs but have gained it back over the years. I’m having a revision to bypass due to severe GERD. I was looking for some books to read on the bypass procedure and maybe recommended eating plans etc. can anyone recommend a book that helped them?

Thanks in advance!

I just bought the Fresh Start Bariatric Cookbook (there is s kindle version on Amazon) and I love it already!

I'm catching up on reading (because I'll be converting from sleeve to bypass next month) and I just downloaded that cookbook. Thanks!

I just bought the Fresh Start Bariatric Cookbook (there is s kindle version on Amazon) and I love it already!

Thanks! I’ll check it out.

i would HIGHLY recommend watching every video on youtube from this bariatric surgeon, Dr. Matthew Weiner. he also has a book called "Pound of Cure" which applies to bariatric patients as well.

Edited December 22, 20178 yr by JohnnyCakes

I’ve seen many of his videos! I will look for his book on Amazon right now!
Thanks so much, surgery is approved and looking at January 29th.

I’m converting from sleeve to bypass in 2 weeks. Now that my friends know they’re all trying to talk me out of it. Saying the complications are so much higher with bypass than sleeve. They’ve got me second guessing myself!

I'm scheduled to convert (sleeve to bypass) in just over 2 weeks and I'm currently questioning EVERYTHING -- I have 80 pounds still to lose, and if converting to a bypass will only be a minimal help (with potentially higher complication risk), I am just not sure it's worth it.

Thanks for posting that video, @JohnnyCakes it was really interesting and informative.

Shell

8 minutes ago, Shells_Almost_There said:

I'm scheduled to convert (sleeve to bypass) in just over 2 weeks and I'm currently questioning EVERYTHING -- I have 80 pounds still to lose, and if converting to a bypass will only be a minimal help (with potentially higher complication risk), I am just not sure it's worth it.

Thanks for posting that video, @JohnnyCakes it was really interesting and informative.

Shell

I'm in the same boat. When I told friends and family I was converting they all were all trying to talk me out of it. I have 80 pounds to get to my goal but 115 to get to a healthy weight.

just get the bypass... the procedure you should have gotten in the first place.

Yup. I'm definitely moving forward with the bypass in about 10 days! @MonkeyNurse you still on?

Yep,

15 minutes ago, Shells_Almost_There said:

Yup. I'm definitely moving forward with the bypass in about 10 days! @MonkeyNurse you still on?

Yep, 7 more days til my bypass

Excellent!

I just had a revision from sleeve to bypass on Jan 10th.... how are you guys doing ?

My surgery was delayed a week, so I'm up next Tuesday. Getting nervous!

How is your recovery going? Much different from your sleeve recovery?

I was just thinking about the differences this morning actually.

The surgery went well. I was a mess before surgery, even though I've had plenty in my life. My boyfriend works 2 weeks out of town and 1 week in. He was flying in the morning of my surgery so I wouldn't see him until after I was out of recovery and hadn't seen him in 2 weeks, he's super confused about the surgery and doesn't understand why... so I was really stressed out going in.

I remember being wheeled into recovery (the hospital is way beyond gridlock) and only had 7 beds in recovery. I heard them say it took them an extra 45 minutes in the OR so I was late coming, but don't remember anything beyond that. I do remember the pain. I remember asking for pain meds but they couldn't give me anymore than they did because I wasn't breathing enough. I thought I was breathing just fine! but apparently it wasn't a lot lol. Since they had a room for me already, they ricked me to the curb in recovery, pain not controlled and went to my room. I told them about the pain, they showed me the monitor and said my breathing wasn't enough to give me more yet, and had to keep the oxygen on. I saw the monitor and I know that it was much much lower than I normally am at so that I understood and could see visually myself. They gave me what they could when they could, and I cold eventually tkae the oxygen off and they made me comfortable with meds. (So difference #1 - Pain. much worse than i remember with the sleeve). Difference #2 is the gas. I didn't have any issues with the gas first time around. This time... the gas went to my chest and the left side of my face. They could feel the crackle of the gas under my skin. That was very uncomfortable, i couldn't take a deep breath without a lot of pain (explains the breathing earlier) I didn't have any issues with gas, I was able to walk the first time and release the gas, well that was... this time around walking didn't do anything at all... took a few days to release gas that way, and only when I was laying down.

Difference # 3 - Bowel movements... im a week post op, and still no bowel movement, after using milk of mag etc. I am not uncomfortable with no bowel movement yet, but with the sleeve I was running to the bathroom fairly quickly without any meds for that.

so those are the bad differences...

the good differences are the eating and drinking.... I have ZERO issue getting water in, or now eating cottage cheese and soup. no pain or discomfort with that at all.

So some things have been bette and some things worse this time around.

The pain was definitley worse, and i ran out of pain meds, sat in emerg like the clinic told me to do to see my surgeon on call, and i didn't even get to see him... and i got pain meds from someone else that were very similar. they called me today to confirm and apologize since thats where they sent me. The hospital also ran some tests when i was there and my surgeon wants them rerun at his office... my blood work was "prestige" the day after surgery and "perfect" the morning of discharge. The hospital ran some other tests and went on a tangent when i was there for pain meds and some live enzymes came back high and low.. so they want me to come back tomorrow or Friday to run some stuff and they'll call me after that.

So when the surgeon came to see me after surgery the next day.... he said they were a little surprised to see my stomach/sleeve was in my chest cavity... and there was a huge hernia. So that's why I was in the OR an extra 45 minutes. They said I would see significant improvement with my acid issues just based on where my stomach was. None of that came up on my pre-op tests.

So other than the pain/ no bowel movement yet. I am doing perfectly fine, no major issues or concerns!

Why was yours moved back a week?