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YOLANDA240 · April 24, 2011

You look great, I'm glad they caught your blood disorder early Take Care

Hi, It's my 5 month surgiversarry today. I won't say everything has been perfect but I am very happy with my sleeve. My surgery was NOV16 2010, it went great. About 10 days later all the excitement began.. long story short I was put back into the hospital diagnosed with pancreatitus and 3 blood clots in the Mesentaric, Splenic and Portal veins. So I was in for 10 days. I'm now on coumindin, probably for the rest of my life. After a TON of bloodwork I got my results back and found out that I hve a rare blood disorder called Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome. Anyone know anything about this? I've googled everything I can about it..

Anyway, yes I'm happy I had the surgery! In a way it may have saved my life... That blood disorder I have is the #1 killer of women under 50yrs who have strokes. That is not a normal thing to test for.

So... starting weight I weighed 267 day of surgery 260 (Nov 16,2010), Current weight right now April 16,2011 is 197! total of 70lbs since pre op weight! YAY! I'm 5'5" my goals weight is 140.... and maybe once I get there maybe 130 (hehe).

cwalker · April 24, 2011

Hi, It's my 5 month surgiversarry today. I won't say everything has been perfect but I am very happy with my sleeve. My surgery was NOV16 2010, it went great. About 10 days later all the excitement began.. long story short I was put back into the hospital diagnosed with pancreatitus and 3 blood clots in the Mesentaric, Splenic and Portal veins. So I was in for 10 days. I'm now on coumindin, probably for the rest of my life. After a TON of bloodwork I got my results back and found out that I hve a rare blood disorder called Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome. Anyone know anything about this? I've googled everything I can about it..

Anyway, yes I'm happy I had the surgery! In a way it may have saved my life... That blood disorder I have is the #1 killer of women under 50yrs who have strokes. That is not a normal thing to test for.

So... starting weight I weighed 267 day of surgery 260 (Nov 16,2010), Current weight right now April 16,2011 is 197! total of 70lbs since pre op weight! YAY! I'm 5'5" my goals weight is 140.... and maybe once I get there maybe 130 (hehe).

You look awesome!! Great that they found the disorder!

sunnyd · May 1, 2011

Congrats to you!! Thats's great that they caught your blood disorder through this! I had pancreatitis before I got my gallbladder out years ago and that was such horrible pain! I hope that gets better for you and good luck to you as you continue on!

sunnyd · May 1, 2011

Congrats to you!! Thats's great that they caught your blood disorder through this! I had pancreatitis before I got my gallbladder out years ago and that was such horrible pain! I hope that gets better for you and good luck to you as you continue on!

sunnyd · May 1, 2011

sorry for the double post. Clicked reply twice I guess and don't know how to delete one.

AutumnLily · May 1, 2011

sorry for the double post. Clicked reply twice I guess and don't know how to delete one.

I wish they had the delete option for those who made a post and want to remove it. For awhile you could hit edit and erase the info and put in "double post" but now the edit works weird too. You do not have access to the original post just that you can add onto the information.

Flygirl congrats on the 70 lbs lost. Lucky they found your autoimmune disorder and now you are receiving treatment.