hanida

I'm scheduled for Dec 15 (currently in the pre-op liquid phase). Best of luck.

I'm sorry you're going through this. Doctors definitely do mess up sometimes. I had gastric sleeve surgery in September 2014, but stopped losing weight three months post-op. I was always hungrier than everybody else in my support group who had the surgery around the same time as me and I always told the nutritionist that I could eat more, which she said was good and that it meant I was recovering faster. I moved to a different part of the country for school in August 2015 and started seeing a new facility for my continued care. The new doctor wanted to get familiar with my stomach and ordered an upper G.I. and an endoscopy. He saw that my stomach was the same size as someone who had never had the surgery and the endoscopy showed I had an hpilori infection. The new doctor put me on antibiotics immediately and began discussing my options with me. I have opted for a revision surgery to switch my gastric sleeve to a gastric bypass, which I'm having on Dec 15 (currently on pre-op liquids only). When I had to submit my paperwork to the insurance to pay for this new surgery, I had to get my surgical report from my previous surgery. In that report I noticed that my previous doctor knew I had that same infection (it tested positive from the stomach sample) and did nothing about it- and didn't even tell me I had it. My new doctor was shocked that I had this untreated infection in my stomach for almost a full year. He said that the inflammation from this infection is what could've caused the inflammation in my stomach to make it as big as it is now. He also said he couldn't believe the other surgeon wouldn't treat this because it puts me at a high risk for Post-op ulcers. I contacted my old doctor to see what he had to say and I got a standard reply from the hospital that shifted the blame away from them. They said it was not a standard procedure to notify people or treat them for this infection, even though every Bariatric Health professional I've talked to since then has said that's crazy. All in all, I am trying to Move on and focus on my new surgery. My new doctor explained that I won't have the same weight loss now as if I had had this surgery the first time, but I'm hopeful. Another disappointment from my previous surgeon is that he told me that I should get gastric sleeve, even though I wanted gastric bypass, because he said they don't do gastric bypass anymore unless the patient has diabetes, which I didn't have. So I went with the gastric sleeve because of his recommendation, but now my new surgeon has explained that that is simply not true and that gastric bypass is actually the more successful and clinically proven long term weight-loss solution, whether you have diabetes or not. So I feel your pain having to deal with dumb doctors and I hope you find someone to help you correct the problems. I also hope you find peace with it and know that any weight-loss failures are not your fault. I wish you the best with your health and would be happy to answer as many questions as I can about revisions if it comes down to that for you. Cheers. ~H

I have a similar problem. Once I lost 80 lbs and only 2 pant sizes. Once lost 130 lbs and only 4 pant sizes. Super frustrating.

Hello all, Best of luck to everyone. I'm post-op gastric sleeve and pre-op gastric bypass. When I did my gastric sleeve, I was back to work in two weeks. This time, I want to make sure I not only have enough time immediately after surgery, but in the first 6 mo - 1 yr post-op to really focus on my recovery and weight loss. Now I'm in school full-time and working part-time (volunteer hours at a really amazing place), which is very demanding. Next semester is my last semester of school, so it's the critical time to build up my resume. If I continue with the amazing work on my resume, it will be easier for me to get a job later, but I'm worried about having enough time to workout, sleep, attend support groups, etc. I'm considering talking to the organization and explaining I can't work there (even though I've already committed to it), but also worried about having a work gap on my resume during the most critical time to build it up. I have always put work/school ahead of health, which has gotten me to morbid obesity. This is my second surgery, so I can't mess it up and have to work double hard to lose the weight. I'm just having trouble deciding whether I should stay at the job or not. Any helpful suggestions? Thanks, H