Well I had my surgery yesterday only to wake up in recovery to be told that due to massive amounts of adhesions in my belly from a previous scar the surgery had to be postponed :biggrin: to build up my tolerance level for a possibly "open" procedure. My doctor is excellent and my hat's off to him for making the call not to risk my life any more than needed :dita: but it was a huge upset after being poked like a pin cushion and cut and blown up like a balloon that I have to go through all this again in a few weeks :tongue:. No one said it was easy :tongue:...........catch you guys up in a few weeks.

so sorry to hear that, can i ask what surgery you had that left the scaring. i had laproscoping appendix removal 7 months ago and was basically hacked at open surgery would have been cosmetically nicer and im worried as i have alot of scaring in rib area also cos if this i have fresh scaring in my belly button do they put camera in their.

im worried cos im going to belgium for op so dont see doc till day before im worried he will say scars are too fresh, dont know whats classed as fresh in terms of scaring

hope all goes well next time

So sorry to hear this. But the Dr. thinks he can do an open surgery, which is good. Not as quick to heal and all, but still.

BUMMER!!! Who was your Dr. I live in Western KY and being banded

Oct. 24. I have that fear also, but my surgery was on my right side.

Dr. Weiss is doing my band at Jackson Purchase Hospital in Mayfield.

Did they say how long you will have to wait? Kathy

Sorry to hear all that, I had my surgery a week ago today. I had terrible scarring, surgery took 2 hours and was done laproscopic. Plus he had to repair my ruptured hernia at the same time at no extra charge :cursing:. Dr. Groves is wonderful and I'm glad that he cared enough to take the time and removed the scarring and repaired the hernia and made me a new diaphragm and put the band in, I feel like a new person. I'm able to breathe better and walk more and no more swollen ankles and the rest will drop off in time......9 pounds gone so far..........Good luck to you and I hope your next time in will the worth all the pain you've had so far.

Kim in Alabama

Roll Tide!! :thumbdown:

so sorry to hear that, can i ask what surgery you had that left the scaring. i had laproscoping appendix removal 7 months ago and was basically hacked at open surgery would have been cosmetically nicer and im worried as i have alot of scaring in rib area also cos if this i have fresh scaring in my belly button do they put camera in their.

im worried cos im going to belgium for op so dont see doc till day before im worried he will say scars are too fresh, dont know whats classed as fresh in terms of scaring

hope all goes well next time

Back in 1991 I had ITP which is Idiopathicthrombocenicpupura (probably misspelled) and they did an "exploratory" surgery of my abdomin, basically a horizontal incision from one side of my gut to the other that caused my scarring issue. I'm not sure what to tell you on the freshness of the scars. I have three fresh incisions in my abdomin now one about where my elbow touches my side when my arms are downm one in my bellybutton and one inbetween those two, so yes they put somthing in where the bellybutton is. Thanks for the responce

My doctor is Mark Shina, an excellent man and a wonderful bariatric surgeon. He could have finished the surgery he said but my blood pressure kept bottoming out, and he was scared he was going to loose me because the scar tissue in my abdomen had to be removed to get to my stomach which would take an extra hour. Apparentally certain types of blood pressure medications interfere with the anesthetic used to put you under. I am going off 1 of my blood pressure meds for two weeks and we are going to do it again the 16th.