IAmDawn

I ended up in the hospital last week. It started about 4am and didnt stop. I was in so much pain I was vomiting and balling all night and the next day until i got care at the hospital. The severity of my pain is still incomparable to anything I have ever felt before in my life. It was in my upper belly area. It was slight at first but grew over a while. I had diarrhea all night until I got to the hospital. I normally know what poop pains feel like..or dumping syndrome..but this wasnt moving or going away. I must have been in the bathroom at least 6 times before I went again at the hospital.. I think I threw up about 3 times before again at the hospital. They gave me pain meds and 2 bags of Fluid said I was fine and sent me home. The funny thing is that nobody...NOBODY, including my surgeon, seemed to want to take an MRI or ultrasound. As much pain as I was in, I knew something was wrong. I had to call the doctor the next day just to ask what happened because nobody told me. They just sent me home. So when I looked at the paper they gave me, it said gastritis? I didnt even know that was on there until yesterday. Nobody told me that they gave me the paper. All they said was here is your after care information. No pain meds to go home with, no instructions, nothing. I am still concerned about what happened. I still dont know what caused it. The paper about gastritis said it was from anti inflammatory meds, which just isnt possible concidering, I dont take any. They said my pouch was inflamed. Uh..my doc said i could stop taking the pepcid..so maybe he shouldnt have done that? So why wasnt anything explained and what the hell happened. I would love to know if anyone else has had something like this happen. They said it wasnt surgery related..which makes sense since mine was almost 2 months ago. So what the hell? frustrated.

I still have my gall bladder. I am actually taking a medication to prevent gall stones. I have to take it for 6 months. The thing I am worried about is an ulcer. He took me off the pepcid a few days early. A week later I was in ER. If this happens again..I am not leaving until they do an ultrasound. My surgeon still hasnt gotten back to me about whether or not I should start the pepcid again and that was the day after my visit to ER. I dont honestly know why he would even say i was fine concidering he didnt even come to the ER to look at me. I will definitely not take that crap next time. Thanks for your thoughtfulness

nope. he told the er doctor to send me home. I even called the next day and asked why nothing was done. They said it was normal. I asked...WHAT exactly was normal? They still never told me what happened. Even after I explained that it wasnt anything I ate.

I started the process in 2007. I was told to get counseling for the relationship i was in or leave it. I chose to get counseling. after a long 5 years of hell i decided to start the process again. It took me 3 more years to finally get my life back together and lose the weight i needed. Ups and downs are no joke when it comes to losing weight for me. I am now post op and have lost 60lbs total. I had surgery about 7 weeks ago and have lost 35 lbs or so. Totally worth it. I still think im dreaming and that I havent actually done it yet. All is well so far.