My Surgery

[Cornelia LaLa Adams Harris 0]

I had gastric bypass and gallbladder removal. I had my surgery on June 25,2015 in NC . The day of my surgery the doctor told my husband that he had a very hard time getting my gallbladder out and that I had many gallstones. Day 1 i felt pretty good . Day 2 I was suppose to go home. Day 2 in the afternoon I began vomiting up black blood and bile .I vomited about 15 to 20 times probably 3 t0 4 oz a time.I also was stooling blood as well . The gave everything they could for nausea . The hospital doc came in to see and told that my kidney function was compromised and that my white blood count was off. Then a GI doctor came to look at . But no one would tell me what was wrong . They told me that my blood pressure cause me to vomit . I continued to vomit for two days . I finally stopped vomiting. I was sent back to OR the GI doctor ran a scope down my stomach. He told that the Upper GI bleeding had stopped but that I had an ulcerated anastomosis and that where my surgeon reconnected my small intestines to my stomach was in very bad shape and that he could my repair it and that the only thing he could do is give me medication to protect my stomach and hope it would heal on its own. On day 7 day after my surgery I was discharge . Still with no answers about what happen to me .

[Djmohr 6,965]

Oh my goodness! I am so sorry this has happened to you, complications are never easy to deal with.

Hopefully you start to feel better soon. If you are not getting answers you should seek a second opinion right away so that you get answers as to what this is and why it happened. Also, what you need to do about it.

Don't settle for no answers. You owe it to yourself. This recovery is hard enough without having complications to deal with.

Keep us posted and please take very good care of yourself.

[ready2B 263]

Holy cow, you've been through a lot! I hope you are feeling a bit better. You have a right to answers - by law, you can request a copy of all your medical records including the surgical report. I agree, a second opinion is probably something you need to get as soon as possible, Your surgeon could be more concerned about covering his @$$ right now than looking out for your best interests.

[kaoson2 3]

What Doctor did you use ? I am in NC and have one appointment before awaiting approval

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