Creekimp13

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My curiosity got the better of me on this and I found an article that follows the rough details you've given. http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/northeast-tarrant/article4115524.html Yeah, this is a mess. I don't know how the hell they could misidentify the abdominal aorta...it's a garden hose. Yikes....yeah. There, of course, could be a lot of information missing. Could the patient have had very unusual anatomy? (some people do) Could his abdominal aorta have had an aneurysm that made it hugely distended? But yeah...you nick that thing and the whole abdomen looks like a bucket of blood in seconds. If they hadn't sewed it shut, he would have died. It's horrible that it was misidentified. It sounds like there were a lot of people involved and the ball was dropped rather spectacularly. It would still be very interesting to get your doctor's side of the story. If this happened in 2014 and your doctor is still a licensed doctor and surgeon....there might be more to the story (and her specific involvement) than meets the eye. My advice? Find a board certified bariatric surgeon at a major trauma center hospital that is a center of excellence. Ask your doctor how many bariatric surgeries they do each week, and how many they've done in their career. It should be a lot....and your doctor should be willing to discuss his/her rates of complication. Yeah, I totally get why this would be unnerving to you. Best wishes.

The one big S....STARVATION:) You've been on a starvation diet...you're going to continue to be on one for a while...and starvation causes HUNGER. Actual real bonafide honest to God hunger. Concentration camp hunger. Dying of starvation hunger. Donner pass hunger. Sally Struthers Children in Africa hunger. Not only have you deprived your body of the calories it lives off of everyday for basic metabolism for a couple of weeks on your presurgical diet.....you have now added the massive caloric demand of needing to do lots of repairs (healing). Some people don't experience hunger after surgery. Hormones? Nausea? Luck? Many others experience extreme hunger. I could have chewed my leg off. And it's tough...because it's extremely important that you follow your instructions to the letter right now. Just have to take it a day at a time. You'll make it. After I started eating around 1000 calories a day, I felt a LOT better. I eat about 1200 calories a day now...have no hunger. It gets better. Hang in there!

What is the source of this "report"? It's bogus. The aortic valve is pretty much in the center of a person's heart. To puncture an aortic valve, you'd literally have to stab someone in the heart. And it would kill them. Bariatric surgeries are abdominal. There would be no instruments in the thoracic cavity. The other fishy thing about the story is this absurd claim "The surgeon was required to pay 1500 and go thru additional training." No. This is not how it works. If someone loses their legs after surgery and medical negligence is found, the surgeon's insurance company pays out about 50 million dollars. A board would review the surgeon's actions and they would either keep their license or lose it. There would be no "additional training". Please check your source. You either have your details VERY mixed up....or you are being scammed. If you have a link to the report, I'd love to read it. I'm not suggesting a serious internal bleed isn't possible. It is. But the much more likely cause would be a spleen bleed. If the aorta were involved, it would be the abdominal aorta (far, far away from the aortic valve)....but I can't imagine the patient living to be transferred to another hospital. Talk to the surgeon. If she's still practicing, chances are good there is more to the story than meets the eye. (or, it's a grossly misreported incident)

It starts off feeling very small due to swelling and inflammation. I'm 5 months out. I easily eat 4 ounces or so at a time. About a half a cup. Maybe a little more...particularly if the food is a slider like yogurt or oatmeal or protein bar. My meals are typically about 200 calories. And I eat 6 of them a day. LOL:)

Blood clots happen. My brother in law lost a leg in an emergency aortic dissection surgery. His surgeon is brilliant, the top of his field, and did absolutely everything possible to avoid problems....and it was just bad luck. It happens. To even the very best of the best. Even when you're doing clot preventative treatments...it can happen. Sometimes luck is just bad. Another cause of leg loss after surgery might be an extremely bad infection....which, again....can happen. It shouldn't, and we hope it doesn't. But it happens. Rather than ditch your surgeon, maybe you should talk to him about what happened? We like to think of these surgeries as completely safe, but they really are not. As surgeries go...they're quite safe....but they're still major surgery. And major surgery carries risk. A certain number of people will have a very bad experience. Odds of a bad experience increase with multiple factors. That said....remaining morbidly obese is not safe either. It carries major risks, and there's a reason that tricky word "morbid" is in there. Weigh the benefits-vs-risk. That's all we can do. Make the best call we can, and cross our fingers. If picking a different surgeon helps you sleep at night....by all means...do. But remember....there are no guarantees.

Bigtime!

Good luck!

Your group will likely have a list of therapist who work with not only food issues, but stresses brought on by weight loss surgery.

Our bodies are very adaptive. Peptide 5 in the colon still stimulates hunger (ILP5). Some ghrelin remains.

You were indeed:) You guys inspire me big time. Today, I was working in my garden, Pulled out a whole bucket of raspberry canes (they've taken over) and a whole bucket of iris toes. Rented a tiller and tilled everything:) Took a bike ride with my daughter this afternoon. Saw turtles and baby geese and sandhill cranes....was a beautiful day here. My activity level compared to last spring is just amazing. I am LOVING this level of activity....and I really never thought I would. I was a serious couch potato. Now, I'm seeing so many possibilities. I want to put an orchard in, build a frame for grapes. i'm thinking of getting chickens again. Last summer I started mowing lawns with a push mower....which my hubby thinks is hysterical because we've got a perfectly good riding mower. Somehow, I like being able to see what I've done...the amount of yard I can cover at one time kinda dares me to up my game. Mowing lawns by hand is a full body workout! Hubby is glad to be out from under that weekend chore, too. As nutty as this sounds...I'm looking forward to that again. I feel so satisfied that I CAN, you know? I'm looking forward to the pool maintenance, too. LOL:) I do a lot of walking on a 3-5 mile forest trail (length depends on which way you go). Have started to do a few bursts of running on my walk. It's still killing me, but I can do it longer now:) I just like being able to say I CAN:) No better feeling!

You have a right to handle access to knowledge of your procedure however you want. If this works best for you, kudos! Wishing you a safe effective surgery and a great outcome:)

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Increase exercise. Decrease calories.

1. Even if it were "the easy way out"....who fecking cares? Is getting a heart bypass "the easy way out"? That condition can be treated with diet and exercise, too. Why does no one ever give heart patients shite for eating poorly and not getting enough exercise? 2. It's no one's business what you want to do try to improve your health. It's YOUR health, YOUR body, YOUR decision. 3. Again....who cares?

Good luck and best wishes for a safe rapid recovery:)

Congrats!

I had both. C-Section is brutal by comparison. My sleeve was super easy and hardly slowed me up. My C-section on the other hand.....kicked my arse for weeks. There's no comparison. Sleeve is MUCH less painful and an easier recovery.

Lots of folks report weird mood swings after surgery. My doctor said at least once a month someone is in tears with buyers remorse right after surgery...while still in the hospital! He said it's normal to have some emotional ups and downs...and that by a couple months out the vast majority of people have no regrets and feel much more like themselves. But yep...I know what you're talking about. And it very well could be affected by hormone swings.

I still maintain that the liquid diet two weeks before, and the restricted diet two weeks after surgery....were much much worse than the surgery itself. For me, anywho:) You're not alone.

Food Funerals. Lots of people have them:)

Any pharmacy:)

Maintenance really IS the issue. The surgery is not a magic bullet. You will be able to eat yourself fat again. To me...the biggest step was creating a forever diet I could live with forever....and this is one of the reasons I would not work with a program that does low carb, high protein. Took a while to find a program that worked with my preferred diet (Mayo Clinic Diet)...but I found one...and I'm enjoying compatible ideas with my team. I think it's really important. And I think it's important to build a forever diet.

My doctor said...use your discretion, wait until you're comfortable. We got kinda creative and sexlike activities happened fairly soon. But actual full on...bouncy sex...I think we waited a month or so?

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