Dear All,
My name is Robin Uppal from North India. I am marketing & sales professional. After struggling with weight loss, I finally took the plunge on 15th June 2012 to get my Gastric Sleeve Surgery done from Apollo Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India through my Surgeon Dr. Arindham Ghosh. His counselling sessions helped me a lot to mentally prepare for the surgery. I weighed 136 Kg before surgery with a BMI of 52!!! I had constant pain in my left knee and blood sugar was going off charts! The idea of surgery scared me but as my sister had undergone the procedure from the same surgeon 7 months ago, her pep talk helped a lot too.
I came to hospital on 14th June and underwent all tests including trial in OT room which was scary. Early morning I was taken to OT at 8.00 am and knocked out by anesthesia and woke up in recovery room around 1.00 PM!!! It was scary to gain consciousness attached to machines all around. I felt heaviness in my chest & my back hurt a lot due to my straight posture. All I could tell my wife when I saw her was to massage my back. The first day post surgery was tough. I was send to my private room around 7 Pm same day and I was walking a bit too!
The pain was not that bad but the discomfit on first day was really tough. I had disturbed sleep, heaviness in chest & some pain even after strong pain killers I was having! The second day things were better and I was only irritated with the Angie up my nose for drainage & the urine pipe! It really tested my patience! I was getting clear liquid diet every 2 hrs but could slowly increase my intake. I was released from hospital on 4th day and felt really good as I had lost 3 kg already & my knee pain was gone too!!!
First week was alright with liquid diet but second week was again sooooo tough as I was getting hunger pangs! I was so sick of all drinks already & didn't know how I will go through few weeks of those! I found that sticking to liquid diet more tough than getting the surgery done! In the second week, I am down 7 Kg already so am motivated to move ahead. I joined back work on 26th of June but am having a tough time with weakness & loss of energy. I feel listless & am having difficulty focussing at work. I have increased my protien drinks (YUK) but not helping much. My doc says its psychological but am having hard time even climbing stairs or holding conversations. Maybe it will get better when i start solid food? God, I can kill someone for food at this moment!!! I have also started getting irritated for no reason at all too! I have lots of patience but looks like I have to work more on it. This all seems so unfair sometimes. I have already started avoiding social occassions as I know food & drinks will be around. I don't allow family members too around me when they are having food!!! I can see my life changing around me & I hope this will all be worth the effort!!!
