Is there anything you wish you'd been told pre-op?

[RiaR 30]

I second the comment about Constipation. I mean, doc told me that I could get constipated, but I'd never had that happen to me, so I just thought it meant having a little trouble going. TMI ALERT: I didn't realize that I'd ultimately end up for over an hour and a half on the toilet, exhausted, crying, and bleeding, and still unable to get the poop that was part way out all the way out. This happened twice. And I didn't learn until later that my doc would have liked me to go to the hospital when that happened. Nor did I realize that "getting it under control" still means that it takes me at least 20 mn to go.

Were you not told to take milk of magnesia on day 4 post op ?

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[allwet 868]

On 2/26/2019 at 9:12 AM, Pippa1703 said:

As it seems to be the topic of a few videos I've watched during my research, I thought I'd ask if there was anything you've learned since the operation you chose to have, that you wish you'd been told about before hand and weren't? Good or bad

that i would never have warm hands again. my hands are so cold all the time. It stopped being funny about 6 months ago and now is just one of those things i learn to live with.

going from the guy that wore shorts and tee shirts in the winter to thermals, tee shirts with long sleeve shirt over that and a sweat shirt to top it off. Has taken some getting used to.

[Pippa1703 32]

1 hour ago, allwet said:

that i would never have warm hands again. my hands are so cold all the time. It stopped being funny about 6 months ago and now is just one of those things i learn to live with.

going from the guy that wore shorts and tee shirts in the winter to thermals, tee shirts with long sleeve shirt over that and a sweat shirt to top it off. Has taken some getting used to.

Oh god. I'm already the girl with heater in in June 😕

[summerset 5,261]

Doesn't have to be this way. I'm not particularly cold. Seems to be a highly individual thing.

[RoRoKitty 183]

I am allergic to cold after the operation, I get hives almost daily when I drive my moto and the wind hits me in some particular place, when I walk and my legs are cold , when I swim in the pool etc.. I hope it will go away, but if not I would still not regret the surgery and go back to +120 pounds! 100 more to go !

[notmyname 592]

On 03/03/2019 at 00:27, RiaR said:

Were you not told to take milk of magnesia on day 4 post op ?

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My instructions were to take MOM “if needed”, but they didn’t say what that meant. And the 1.5 hour toilet episode was after taking MOM. otherwise nothing was moving at all. :(

[froufrou 678]

19 hours ago, Vizslamom said:

I had the same Constipation problem as not my name. Suffered for a week after surgery. TMI time - I could feel the plug through my vaginal wall. laxatives only caused me to pass new stool around it.

It sounds as though you may have a rectocele (a hernia) - where stool pushes through into the vagina. It can happen after childbirth, chronic constipation and from being overweight.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rectocele/symptoms-causes/syc-20353414

[froufrou 678]

16 hours ago, Frustr8 said:

Froufrou, they diagnosed me at 5 weeks with a strictured stoma opening in my pouch, 3 ulcers within there, 5 on the back wall of the jejuneum. I started trying to tell them at 2 weeks out something was wrong, I kept getting poo-pooed, I was swollen, I wasn't giving myself a chance to heal. They might have the fancy degrees,but I have lived in this body a LONG TIME. I have had 10 endoscopies , they kept trying to stretch it open. Zilch lasting effects. On November 28th, noticing the ulcerations were marching down my jejuneu m and heading towards my illium, to properally heal i needed 129 he Protein, on my p.o. liquids I was nowhere near that so in went the PICC on the 29th, went from 24 hours daily, to 14, then 12, and was on 10 when they decided to remove it. It had become rather my buddy, I cried when they removed it, now I have to try to make up the calories by mouth, I'll try but doubtful it is going to go well. We shall just see!

That sounds horrendous I hope that you are starting to heal up now.

I didn't bond with my TPN, but I can say that I was probably the most topped up with Vitamins that I have ever been in my life!

[froufrou 678]

double post

Edited March 3, 2019 by froufrou

[chrissymcm08 10]

As it seems to be the topic of a few videos I've watched during my research, I thought I'd ask if there was anything you've learned since the operation you chose to have, that you wish you'd been told about before hand and weren't? Good or bad

Yes, the acid problem with the sleeve, guess I will be on Pantrozole/Omeprazile for the rest of my life unless I have a revision to bypass. Also have gallstones now so they want to take my gallbladder out. I am 10 months out.

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