boojak2003

as im writing this i am uncontrollably crying. I had gastric sleeve surgury on 8/25. I was fine the first week, the second week i noticed I had lots of gas pain...so i thought...then i thought it was constipation. Called the nurse at the office and she gave me more pain meds and told me to take a mirilax. After i did all that I did feel better, but my upper left side of stomach still was hurting. I also felt that i couldn't drink enough so I felt dehydrated. So on 9/7 I went tot he hospital. I was admitted once they did a CT scan and found an infection and abcess with a small leak. I was then rushed to surgury and admitted to the hospital. I had a horrible time at the first hospital I was at because the nursing staff seemed to not know how to do anything. They even had me miss a dose of antibiotics. I got a PICC line and was told that my white blood cell count is high and needed to come down to normal range. Throughout the week, things only got worst. Finally on that friday my doctors wanted to transfer me to another hospital in case they needed to put in a stent. I went there and everything was seemed to turn around. On that saturday, I got a CT assisted procedure where they sucked out the bad stuff in my abcess and put in another drain. Afterwards my white blood cell count decreased and I felt better. Well Im home now with 2 drains, a PICC line, and TPN and 5 days with of antibiotics. Im so sad and hurt because I don't know what to do. Im so scared this is going to go on for months. I'm only 29 years old. I look at all these boxes of medicine and I break down crying. And the thing about is is that I did it to myself. I was pefectly healthy. I was 297 lbs, but i was active. I have faith in God that he will bring me through this and take care of everything. Its just so hard right now. I am out of work, I can't bathe myself, or even comb my hair. And my poor fiance. He is hanging in there with me and supporting me. He helps me do everything while still working. I just cry everything I think about what I did to him. I love him so much and i never wanted this for him. He was fine with me, he just wanted me healthy and thats all. Not a certain size or anything. I did this because I couldn't control myself and displine myself to stay in a healthy lifestyle on my own. I didn't think it would be easy, but I didn't think it would be like this. I am sooooo scared. i have an appointment on monday for a swallow study (don't know what that is), then an appointment with my surgeon the next day. I pray that everything goes well. I don't know how much I can take of this. Has anyone went through something like this?

hello everyone!! i don't come up here much because I switched jobs and I am currently in nursing school.... Right now i have lost well over 100 lbs and i feel great!! It has been a challenging journey but throught preserverance and prayer I have come out on the other side. I am currently at 185 lbs from a starting weight of 320lbs. I think I want to lose maybe another 30 but I kinda like where I am at as far as the way I look and also my health is much much better. I have a lot of energy now and have a new outlook on life. Things are weird for me because I now can go shop in any store I want, and it is a little overwhelming lol...too many choices (i love love love to shop!!) I still have a challenge with food, which i will probably have the rest of my life...pre-op i wasn't a sweets person...now i love Cookies and cakes (not much..just a couple of bits).. I had to end up learning how to make sugar free Desserts lol i guess once i learn how to post pictures I will do a before and after big question: after everything would i do it all over again...YES I WOULD!! i have a life i never thought i could have...that i thought was out of reach for me...when you are sick it sucks and you don't see the light at the end of the tunnel...but there is a light and you WILL get better and things WILL be great!!

To beltran2000 Stay strong...when i was going through everything I thought I had made the worst mistake of my life. But it does get better. When I was on TPN I gained a little weight and stayed the same weight for like 2 or 3 months. But as soon as I got better the weight came flying off. So don't worry about your weight now...worry about getting better. Believe me IT IS WORTH IT IN THE END!! You will see...just keep yourself occupied and stop worrying about where you should be and worry about your health and getting better. Sending prayers your way

im so sorry to hear this happened to you. it is not easy going through complications. I felt my world was over and couldn't believe i had done that to myself. Now on the other end of it and im finally feeling fine. I am off the TPN, PICC line is out and im eating regular foods. Still trying out new stuff and I have become very very picky about what I eat.

im sorry to hear you went through so much. You went through a lot and came out on the other end so you can overcome this as well. As for me...my leak healed and stayed that way lol...i am drinking and eating pureed foods now...starting to wean off of TPN as of tomorrow. Things are looking up and i am feeling fine.

well i am waiting on my surgeon and GI doctor to get back with me after getting together and going over all my labs and results. I really miss dinner time. I miss eating what I want...sometimes I am excitied for what is to come once all this is over, but I'm so sick of TPN and want to eat and drink so bad... I know it will only be a short time before I will be able to get back to normal...i guess i'm just ranting right now.

no i haven't had anything like that...they just said i have a small pin hold size leak in the upper part of my stomach...i dunno what else they are going to do...the GI doc said he was going to talk to my surgeon and some other GI docs and get back with me tomorrow or saturday to tell me the next step

they both told me that everything seems normal as far as things moving through my GI tract...

so i get a endoscopy today....no leak shown...everything comes back normal...so the GI doc said he didn't feel i needed a clip or stendt....so not only does that not show and leak, my GI swallow test and CT scan shows now leak....im so fustrated... still NPO...i just don't know what to do now... anyone went through this?

my insurance is paying for most of it...i have small percentage co-pay..

my doc said something about getting a clip and endoscopy...at this point im ready to cuss everyone out and go somewhere else...i have been NPO for over a month and im going crazy...im thristy and hungery and can't do anything about it...im out of work and ready to go back...im miserable...i feel like i should not have done this and im very upset at my doc

so....leak did not heal as i thought.... a few days later I was taking my medicine and i smelled some of my jp output and it smelled a lil like the meds...so i did the blue dye Water test...blue showed up in my jp drain output...so i went back to NPO... doc did CT scan and it showed no leak...blood work shows everything is normal ....so he just said that i still need to now a week later I tried the blue dye test again...blue dye showed up again...so my doc said he is going to be talking to a gastroenterologist and formulate a plan....don't know what that means I have no fever, chills, pain, or infection...i am actually feeling better than i have in a while....still NPO and kinda depressed about that I can't wait to drink something...starting to get my hunger and thrist back what should i do??

thanks everyone for the encouraging words...I went on monday for a GI swallow study and today I went to see my doctor for the results....LEAK HAS HEALED...AND ALL BLOOD WORK IS NORMAL (AT LEAST WERE HE WANTS IT))... I just screamed thank you jesus...I am a woman of faith and this has been one of the hardest things I have every went through. He took out one of my drains and put me on Clear liquids...still on tpn til I can eat enough Protein. I am so happy.. This has been a long journey this month...I just thank God for seeing me through this...I pray He can continue to heal me and to carry me though the rest of this journey. one question for all...the place where he took out the drain is leaking a lot of like pus stuff...doesn't hurt or stink...called nurse and she said it was okay as long as it didn't stink or was like a deep yellow or green color... has anyone experienced this?

they told me I could go home...i wasn't siked (my fiance was)...they didn't really ask me but told me i was getting discharged.

thank yall so much for the words of encouragement. i hope one day i can set back and say this was all worth it. I'm really just depressed and sad but I will be okay. I am just looking forward to tuesday so i can see where I'm at with this situation.I really don't think I should have came home from the hospital. I probably should have stayed til the leak study. At least I wasn't depressed. But I'm here so I guess I will try to stay positive