My journey has been long with lots of hairpin turns....

[moltoguy 7]

Hello

I decided to have bariatric surgery back in late February this year. I completed all of my pre-op hurdles and was originally scheduled for a gastric bypass in mid July.

That's when the fun began.

I was about a week into my liquid pre-op diet and began feeling very week. Turns out my doctors had me on a bad combination of medications and when I started the Protein liquid it sent me into renal failure.

That sent me to the hospital for two days until my blood work stabilized.

It was primarily the drug combo that caused the problem. The protein diet just kind of set things off.

After that I had to get additional clearance from a neurologist and another ultrasound.

Ok so everything fixed and my bypass was scheduled for mid August. So my surgery day arrives and I'm in the OR and they find liver chirosis due to fatty liver disease. We had not discussed switching to a sleeve so they did a liver biopsy and closed me up. Needless to say when I woke up in the recovery room and got the bad news I was devastated.

So, after that I was referred to a very good liver specialist. After all tests turns out I had fatty liver disease which had turned into chirosis. I think it's known as NASH.

The good news was it was early stage and my liver is functioning and no need to think about a transplant.

So I met with my surgeon again and determined we should go with the sleeve. He explained that the liver situation made the bypass risky if my liver got worse down the road.

So now I've gotten through all the pre-op tests for the third time and I am now scheduled for surgery on October 27th.

Hopefully things will go as planned and this journey will finally happen.

Best of luck to everyone!

[LoseItKacy 347]

Third times the charm right? Best of luck! Hope everything goes with plan this time around! Keep us posted!!!

[heather5565 959]

Holy fadoodle!! Yeah, I'd say you've jumped over some extra hurdles!!!

Too bad you and doc didn't discuss getting a sleeve if that's what he felt was best when he was in the OR... but now that you're all healed up and no permanent liver damage - this is great news!

Maybe look at it as:

In the grand scheme of things... a few month delay is nothing (?)

Now you know that you have to have your liver enzymes watched too. But with weight loss and getting healthy that should also keep your liver issues under control as well.

When my doc came and talked to me post op he told me a had a bit of a fatty liver... I was mortified but he said that with weight loss it will fix that.

Whew

Anyways, good luck and three times a charm!!!!

[The Candidate 3,215]

Certainly hope things go smoothly this time around. You're definitely a trooper!

Funny thing, I had to sign a consent before my bypass giving my surgeon permission to proceed with a sleeve, in the event they got in and found a medical reason why one would be better over the other. So I was prepared for the possibility going in.

Best of luck!

[newmebithebypass 713]

wow you've been through the ringer but your gonna be okay sleeve is what i am getting and i feel perfectly content in my decision