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8 MONTHS OUT AND PREGNANT!
Fairyklg replied to ShrinkyDinkMe22's topic in Pregnancy with Weight Loss Surgery
My surgery was a bit before y'all, but I feel ya. Had mine 9/21/12 and had just creeped up to 127 lost, but now am holding steady for the last few weeks at 123 lost. I'm due 4-18-14. Haven't had any morning sickness yet, which I'm loving. Was wondering if it's normal not to have because of the sleeve...guess not. -
Wow! very similar here!. I am 11 months post op, down 123 pounds and am 6w4d preggers due 4/18/14. I had gotten to 127 down, but weight started to creep up a little, but has been holding steady at 123 down for about 3 weeks, just after finding out. I have a 4 year old daughter. My surgeon said to wait to get pregnant until 9-12 months post op, and we weren't trying, but it happened. We are excited, it's just a little earlier than planned. I have had no morning sickness and I'm hoping that's because of the surgery, but it might be too soon. I hope I don't end up with it. I had miserable morning sickness the first pregnancy, all day every day and was hospitalized twice for hyperemesis. Saw my OB yesterday and got the first sono. He said all looks good. Hope it stays that way. He said make sure to take the vitamins and stay hydrated. I'm also grazing constantly to make sure I get nutrients. Hoping the weight comes off easily after....
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Well, after much soul searching, I decided that I wanted to have gastric sleeve to help me prevent diabetes and all those other lovely health complications that come with obesity. So sept 21, 2012 I had my surgery. All good next day, went home. Over the next few days had pain swallowing, which I assumed was due to the surgery. Well after a week, it was getting bad. It felt like I was swallowing razor blades. So i called the surgeon who sent me to go do an upper gi. At the hospital, it was discovered that I had a leak that was realllly bad. He did an emergency repair surgery same October 4, 2012. Spent the next 12 days in the hospital on tpn. During the first 2 days i blew the centeal line they placed and had PICC line placed. He had placed 2 drains an a feeding tube. The feeding tube never worked. It just blocked up my intestines and sent them into spasms. Got released october 16, 2012 to go home npo on home health deliveries of tpn, weekly nurse visits until the leak was repaired. October 22 sat straight up in bed at 2am in intense pain. Called surgeon who sent me to ER. After sonogram and upper GI, they admitted me not knowing what was going on. Surgeon came in after his clinic hours and took one look at the films, walked over and pulled one of the drains out. It apparently broke loose and was wreaking havoc in my abdomen. Went home the next day. October 25, 2012 did EGD to see if leak was clear. Surgeon said area was red but leak looked gone. He released me to restart post op diet of Clear liquids. Did ok for about a week, and finally went back to work after a month off. Was back about a week and pain started. Did another upper GI and the leak was back, but contained this time. At surgeons recommendation, saw a gastroenterologist who said the stent was not a good option for me. November 13, 2012 had the PICC line put back in and went back to npo and TPN. Have been NPO since then. Had to have the PICC placed in the other arm December 11, 2012 because I got phlebitis and contact dermatitis due to a new allergy to chloraprep. Lost my job November 29, 2012 due to all the time off. January 2, 2013 went in for upper GI and it was inconclusive. January 11, 2013 had another EGD which looked good, but area around leak was still red, so January 17, 2013 (yesterday) had upper GI and leak is still present. Now next Wednesday they will be putting some sort of clip on the leak. Not sure many details on that yet. Has anyone had this much trouble with their surgery? Considering the revision to bypass, but the surgeon wants to try this first so it's not another surgery, if possible.