Spleen

[Yama 1]

I had a major complication. I know it's very rare, but I had the unfortunate experience of bleeding of my spleen. I was sleeved on July 19th at OCC. Here's the facts:

I woke up after the surgery and felt fine. Pain was relatively insignificant. However, the evening of surgery, I experienced more pain and thought it was just gas and decided to walk the floor most of the night in hopes to relieve what I thought was gas pain. My fellow "sleepers" were discharged the next morning, but I clearly was not ambulatory. A Dr. finally came to see what was going on, only to give me some unknown injection. I felt better within an hour and was taken back to the hotel.

Fast forward. Approximately two weeks post surgery, I experienced a debilitating pain in the abdomen and spread to my shoulder. I was taken by Ambulance to my local hospital. While in the ambulance, I realized how bad I was. My blood pressure was so low they had to put an IV in each are in hopes to increase my blood pressure. The hospital ER ordered at CT scan. It showed my spleen was surrounded by blood. It was not actively bleeding at the time, but it must have been bleeding for some time. The Radiologist report indicated spleen showed small laceration. The sleeve stitches and staples were not affected. I was in the ER for a night, and spent two other nights in the ICU. I was that I'll. The fourth night I stayed in normal hospital room. I was discharged from hospital, but later returned with Pneumonia.

Good times! There is no way someone can convince me that my spleen was injured by blunt trauma post surgery. It did not happen. It had to be caused as a result of complication of surgery.

So, yes I regret my decision to get sleeved. I put myself in this predicament. As I write this, I can say this is the first time since surgery that I have not experienced pain.

So, again, I believed this spleen complication due to surgery is very rare, but it does happen. I can vouge for this. Besides putting my health at risk, just think of the $ I spent on U.S hospital? Insane!

[Sosewsue61 3,185]

Sorry you had to go through this emergency situation. Are there any lasting effects?

[Yama 1]

That's a good question? My ER Dr. in the U.S. never mentioned any long term effects on the spleen She did say, I experienced some kidney damage? I should have asked her to elaborate, but this was the last thing on my mind at the time.