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Hello,

Here is my experience. I was sleeved on Monday 5/20/2013. Leak tested on 5/21/13 with no leaks and cleared for release. I came home on Tuesday afternon after I could keep down ice chiips, popcicles etc. The rest of the day I slept. Wednesday night I couldn't sleep all night, I couldn't get confortable. I take meds for anxiety and thught that was the problem. At 4 am, the pain became sudden and severe and I woke my husband and told him we need to go to the hospital, and that is what we did. They did a CT Scan to make sure I didn''t have an pulmmonary embolism. Then they did a leak test, and that came out positive. So off to the OR I went. Regarding the pain it is fine. Thank you so mucfh.

Terri

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Here is my experience. I was sleeved on Monday 5/20/2013. Leak tested on 5/21/13 with no leaks and cleared for release. I came home on Tuesday afternon after I could keep down ice chiips, popcicles etc. The rest of the day I slept. Wednesday night I couldn't sleep all night, I couldn't get confortable. I take meds for anxiety and thught that was the problem. At 4 am, the pain became sudden and severe and I woke my husband and told him we need to go to the hospital, and that is what we did. They did a CT Scan to make sure I didn''t have an pulmmonary embolism. Then they did a leak test, and that came out positive. So off to the OR I went. Regarding the pain it is fine. Thank you so mucfh.

Terri[/quote']

How are you doing now? Glad they were able to fix it so quick, but sounds very scary.

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Wow. Terri, I wish you a speedy recovery and hope this will be the extent of your complications. I am glad you took immediate action and got the medical attention needed! Gentle hug coming your way :)

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At my one month post op visit, we discussed symptoms of a leak. We also discussed leaks discovered months after surgery. My surgeon sits on the panel that reviews malpractice and negligence in Louisiana. He said in reviewing the charts of patients that had these late leaks, something almost always didn't seem right from the beginning.

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