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Sorry for signing up and then immediately posting something TMI. I've been lurking for a while but signed up to ask/vent about this issue, since my bariatrics office is closed on weekends and I can't talk to my surgeon until Monday. So I had my sleeve done on the 2nd of this month. All went swimmingly. This past Monday I had my one week post-op and again, everything went swimmingly -- except for my pulse. My pulse measured 143 and I was admitted to the ER and eventually placed inpatient as it was determined I'd developed acute metabolic acidosis. Okay, that's my bad, thought I'd been consuming enough water but I guess not. Once my bicarbonate levels were normal again I was discharged, on Thursday. My issue started after that. Since coming home, I've been struck with severe nausea and stomach cramps, and since last night have been vomiting and having diarrhea frequently. I can't drink anything, and I've been trying desperately to keep hydrated through this. Any time I drink, within five minutes it's leaving my body again. And, to be extra TMI, the diarrhea is... yellow. As if there's excess fat in the stool. Which there shouldn't be, since all I consume is water and... well, protein water. I tried OTC medicine like Kaopectate, but it didn't help at all. I was wondering if I'd picked something up while in the hospital, but if it was bacterial, Kaopectate should've helped right? All the way leading up to surgery I was told over and over about preventing constipation, so this is kinda the last thing I expected lol. Has anyone else dealt with this after having a sleeve? Did you find any way to alleviate it? I'll be talking to my doctor on Monday (and crossing my fingers I won't have to go back in the hospital for a third time this month...) but man I'm really not looking forward to another day of going back and forth between the toilet and the bed.

Hello, thank you for all the responses I did have a CT scan to check for leaks when I was admitted for acidosis, and was regularly checked for blood clots, all was fine. After discharge I was able to tolerate liquids just fine and was hitting my goals, until Saturday. Sunday I seemed to be getting better throughout the day, but when I took a turn for the worse I went to the ER Sunday night. Diagnosis is: pancreatitis. Even though I don't have a gallbladder and (obviously, as a gastric patient) don't drink, apparently developing pancreatitis is unusual but not super rare after gastric surgery. When they said it, all my symptoms just made sense. I had giardiadis several years ago and was thinking my symptoms seemed a lot like that; it being pancreatitis makes sense. I wasn't able to get in contact with my surgical team on my own, but the ER staff was. Everything in my file's up to date now. Sadly all I can do for treatment is IV fluid and pain management until it improves... but better than nothing. Trusting my body and reading your comments, I'm glad I got to the ER when I did