HisMrsWright

This is not worded too strongly. I know I need to do these things. It's very difficult when I have a really bad fear for throwing up. Before surgery I was a. Why picky eater and I'm even worse now. The smell of things disgust me. The look too. I also do not like milk. I never did before surgery and I sure don't now either. I used to be able to tolerate skim chocolate milk but even mixing shakes with skim milk now is gross. I am so nauseated by all this fake sugar. I have no idea how I was ever such a crazy Diet Coke drinker. I quit months before Surgery and to think about how much I used to drink of it now is disgusting. I keep making broth and shakes and as soon as I get it in front of me to drink I'm about to hurl. It grosses me out so bad. I think it goes with the nausea though. Trying to go to my closest ER and tell them my surgeon didn't take me seriously was a joke. I went to the hospital the surgeon works for yesterday and it finally went somewhere. So I will see what happens from here and keep trying to get Fluid in." Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I'm so sorry you feel this way! When I hear it from someone else it makes me even more sad. It's so hard not knowing what to do. I feel like doctors are doctors for a reason and they should be able to fix everything and in this case people like us are stuck! I don't think we should feel disappointed in ourself if we did everything we were supposed to. It's hard to wrap our minds around it though. Feeling bad sucks. I hope it will soon get better for you too! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I appreciate everyone's kind words, stories, and concern. It's so encouraging to know it can and will get better. I just don't have much optimism right now. I went to the ER again because I felt worse. I finally got a CT scan. It shows nothing abnormal going on in my belly. It did show some very tiny (doctor said if you squint) sign of appendicitis. Now I'm worried about that. I asked if it just stays like that or what. They said as long as no other symptoms of appendicitis I'm ok. I feel like I'm lying in wait for that to happen now. She said if you ask 100 doctors half would be concerned half wouldn't. So whatever that means. While in the ER they called my surgeon and he wants me to come in this coming week for an EGD. It's about time! I left there with carafate. Since leaving last night I am now to the point of vomiting for real. It's not just nausea. I've got the saliva going crazy, heart racing etc going on and it's takes everything I've got to not do it. It's happened several times. I've taking 2 doses of the carafate. I don't know if it doesn't anything or not. I also got some pedilyte popcicles. I tried to eat one earlier. I'm just trying to get fluids in. It makes it harder now that I am on the verge of throwing up. As for my husband and his stupid comments. He's an alcoholic so that doesn't make anything easy. He keeps drinking because he's worried about me he says. How dumb is that? I need him to get his act together and at least take care of our youngest. His mom isn't a reliable source of help and my kids aren't allowed over at my parents house anymore. (Long story but my brother was inappropriately touching our daughter and that's still under investigation.) I am having a lot of problems financially or I'd hire a babysitter. I feel like I have one issue after another and I just need something to go right. I need my health more than I need anything. So here's to hoping this gets better very soon. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I know every time I post all I do is complain but I have no one who listens or understands. I regret this surgery so bad. My mom told me to eat too much and stretch my stomach out and go back to normal. Is she crazy or what? The other night my husband told me this wasn't his problem. And my mother in law who was a big support just doesn't get it. I went to the local hospital Monday evening. I was hoping their ER would give me a different idea what's going on. I had tried to call my surgeon again that day and never heard back so I just went in here. They said I had starvation ketosis and my body was eating itself and I had low potassium. I ended up staying in the hospital for 2 days and told I would have to follow up with my surgeon because their Bariatric doctors won't touch someone else's patient. Well Ok then. I am constantly sick feeling or just feeling like crap. I don't feel right at all. I have spent a lot of time thinking lately trying to pin point things and I realize I started out ok but when I was able to switch to regular soft foods that's when this started. Now no matter what I have except Water I feel ill. I also realize if I try something more solid that's not pure liquid it feels like a brick in my stomach. I typically stick to a few spoons of broth or nothing. I'd rather not eat. Who wants to feel bad? After coming home last night I left a message for the surgeons office and their PA called back. Every time I talk to him I have to start my story over. I have to repeat everything and get asked the same questions over and over. No I don't have a gallbladder, no I am not vomiting, my surgery date was 10/17/16, etc. Don't they keep files or something? I tell him what the hospital here says and it's like in one ear and out the other. He thought I said starvation psychosis and I said no ketosis and then he said this is what happens when you go to other hospitals. I went to one with a Bariatric program! I figured they knew something. Anyway he told me to start over from day one of the diet. Ok fine. He says my stomach is inflamed blah blah and it's not because of what I did or did not do right and asks if I think that will help. I said no and he asked why and I said because I go days without eating so how could it be inflamed? But he still insists this. He tells me to come in on Monday morning to be seen and we can go from there unless it's still not better during this long weekend he says to call him and I can be sent to his hospital. Well it's still the same last night and today. All I do is cry and lay in bed or sleep. I only made it at work one day and here I am off again. I am not ok. All anyone ever runs are blood and urine tests. I have no more veins left to be poked. I feel like something is broke. I keep hearing some people take longer to heal. I'm not in pain I am sick! I don't understand what is going on. I can't live like this the rest of my life! The anti nausea meds don't work anymore. I want to call the surgeons office again and tell them I don't feel good still but I feel like it gets me no where. I used to think I was tough. I was wrong. Feeling sick is the worst thing. I never imagined this would be like this. I just want to go back and never do it. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

It was a weird day. It took me two hours to get in the building and then I couldn't get in my computer system so I sat there doing nothing. After work I went to the ER because I was feeling bad again. They kept me overnight. They said I have starvation ketosis and it's like my body is trying to eat itself from lack of food. I hope this explains things. My potassium was really low and I've been getting fluids with dextrose non stop along with potassium now. I'm not sure if I get to leave today or not. So much for going back to work. I am curious what my surgeon is going to say. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I am returning to work today and I am scared. Today starts the 5th week since my surgery. My nausea has mostly left but I still feel like crap. The doctor doesn't know why I feel like I do and assures me it's nothing serious going on since I have no other symptoms. They always prescribe me more and more pills. The last one was to stop stomach spasms but I can't take it. It makes me too dizzy and it gets stuck in my throat. That makes me fear a stricture but I don't have any problems with other pills. It's weird. The pills is a small round pill it's fat. It's weird. I still can't eat. I eat a few bites a day. I'm working hard on hydration. The doctor said that is more important. Don't get my started on Protein. It's all yuck! So I hope I'm not making a mistake by going back to work. If I can't do it I will just take more time off if I have to. Now to what's irking me.I've been sitting in the lobby of my job for 1 1/2 hours and can't get in. They need the doctor signed release form and no one told me I was supposed to bring it in to work too. I was told to send it to the leave administrators which was done last Tuesday. I called them for a copy. They said it was put in their system Thursday and takes 5 business days to review. I can't get a hold of my caseworker. She's busy and can't take a call and won't respond to my email. I put in a request for a call back and it takes 1 business day. The manager on duty is being a complete jerk! I can't wait to go talk to my manager. I didn't have to come back today and if they want to treat me like this I can just extend my leave. I was so ready to come in and try my hardest to exceed and get back on track and now I'm like screw this. What a horrible way to start the day. I'm waiting for my surgeons office to open at 9 so I can see if they will fax the paper to the MOD. All of this red tape is ridiculous. It could've been prevented if I knew. I told my manager my return to work date and she told me to rest up and let her know if something changed and said she'd see me today. I'm too sick for this drama! All I want to do is go back home get in bed and cry. I feel like I'm failing at everything! Thank you for letting me vent. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I had the same problem for a while. My surgeon put me on some liquid medicine called Carafate. It is actually used for ulcers....but for me it was a game changer when it came to nausea (i was taking 2 different meds plus an antispasmodic med). Something to discuss with your physician if you want. Are you taking an acid reducer like omeprazole? I have been on omeprazole since surgery. Yesterday they gave me something similar to what you are talking about called hyoscyamine and the other day they started reglan. I don't feel nausea anymore per se which is good but I'm skeptical and my stomach just feels weird. I'm going to have to see how things go tomorrow Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

In my diet I am supposed to be on regular soft foods. When I do eat I only ever eat chicken noodle Soup or some other mostly liquid soup. I also found added more foods was making it worse. I can't stand Protein shakes because everything is so sweet. I've tried a few different unflavored ones and it's obvious it's in there. I was always really easily grossed out and now it's multiplied times 100. I feel like I'm pregnant with awful morning sickness. I spoke to the doctor today who says they don't think anything is wrong on the inside and they believe it's just taking me longer to heal. I asked if it was possible I had a small issue that isn't showing symptoms and they said. It likely. So they are prescribing another medication and more zofran. The new medication is supposed to make it easier for my esophagus to let me eat and drink. Let's see how this works. Im waiting for the pharmacy to call. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Gosh that just doesn't sound good. Is it possible for you to go to another doctor or clinic to get a second opinion? It really does sound like something is amiss. Are you able to eat anything? I don't know who else to go to. This is supposedly a center of excellence and I know of no other places who do these surgeries in the area. I've thought of just going to the closest ER to me and see what they do. I only eat when I feel for sure hungry. That's no more than once a day usually. A teaspoon or two at a time. When I went into the doctor this week he told me to focus on hydration and not eating. I'm going back to work on Monday and don't see how I'm going to have energy with no food. I'm going to leave a message with the doctor today and see what they say. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App Gosh that just doesn't sound good. Is it possible for you to go to another doctor or clinic to get a second opinion? It really does sound like something is amiss. Are you able to eat anything? I don't know who else to go to. This is supposedly a center of excellence and I know of no other places who do these surgeries in the area. I've thought of just going to the closest ER to me and see what they do. I only eat when I feel for sure hungry. That's no more than once a day usually. A teaspoon or two at a time. When I went into the doctor this week he told me to focus on hydration and not eating. I'm going back to work on Monday and don't see how I'm going to have energy with no food. I'm going to leave a message with the doctor today and see what they say. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I regret having surgery. I'm one month out from being sleeved and I still have nausea every single day. The doctor doesn't know what's wrong. All they've done so far over several phone calls and office visits are labs and fluids though. I don't have any pain that would indicate a leak, I've had my gallbladder out years ago, and I don't have symptoms of a stricture. I wonder if there could be something tiny going on that isn't showing symptoms but nausea but they won't hear of it. I take two different anti nausea meds every day and they don't get rid of the issue but help it enough so I don't feel like vomiting nearly as bad. I honestly think I'm dying. This surgery was the worst decision i could have ever made. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I am only about 3 weeks post op. Everyone's recovery is very different. I went into it expecting to be just fine a few days later and unfortunately that was not the case. I was in significant pain for about a week. Since then Tylenol has gotten me by and I haven't needed any for several days. I still hurt but it is doable. That's how the pain goes. As far as feeling "normal," I have yet to feel that. I'm struggling with nausea myself. Some days are better than others. I can hardly eat and it's so strange to me that I am even alive with how little I eat. I guess it's the Water keeping me moving. I have been a TON of time here reading and searching posts and many people here have made me feel better about it. Sooner or later I will be ok. I figured I'd take a few weeks off work but I'm taking 6. I need to be as close to 100% as I can get to be a top performer. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

My mother was the same way when I let her know I was starting the Bariatric program. She told me I could do it myself and was not supportive. I never spoke another word of it to her. I went along with my program and 7 months later had a surgery date. I went back and forth a lot about telling them at that point. I finally sent an email to my parents the morning of with links to the surgeons website and the name of the procedure so they could educate their self. In the end I only told them just in case something happened to me because I have two children, their grandchildren and that could've turned into a mess. Since surgery my dad jokes with me about food and I wish he would shut up and all my mom did was ask what surgery I had and she isn't happy that I had part of my stomach removed and it is not reversible. As I've grown older my parents opinions matter less and less to me because honestly they are close minded a holes. The only family who have been super supportive of my journey are my husband and my mother and father in law. Who would've though it would take surgery to bring in laws closer! In the end though I wanted what I wanted and I didn't care what anyone else had to say. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

You look amazing! I am glad to see a post finally from someone who had surgery in the same office I did. Congratulations! Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

It is really encouraging to hear so many people who have been in the same situation and that it got better. There is some hope it that. No one at the surgeons office educated me in hormone dumping and I need to do some research on that. As far as drinking the nutritionist says 30 minutes before and not right up to meal time. It is also in the binder they gave us. If I continue to have problems with it I am going to have to reach out to her and see what other options there are. I have been feeling a tad better the last few days. Not great but better than before. I've made sure to take Vitamins and I'm working hard in getting in Protein. I wish it was something like my gallbladder. I like explanation. But I had that removed 10 years ago or so right after I had my son. I get frightened at all of the other types of complications it could be like leaking or strictures. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

My doctor did give me zofran after surgery. I took one yesterday and it made me really tired. I slept most of the day. I am going to try some again today. He offered to call me in some more if I need it. I guess I will try it for a few days and see if it helps and if not I will ask for something different. I just hope I don't have to live on anti nausea medication. My best friend had surgery back in April and suggested I keep taking the Vitamins (which are also gross to me and I skip every few days) to get the extra nutrients and that might make me feel better too. This leads me to another issue. It is really hard to take my regular medication (thyroid and a few different things for anxiety and depression), vitamins, a Tylenol once in a while for pain, two antacids a day, etc and drink enough Water. Especially when there is the wait before and after eating with drinking. There are not enough hours in the day to get everything in this tiny tummy! I am hoping I can get off most of these medications in the near future. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App