RNY Gastric Bypass: ONE YEAR POST-OP

[Andre Garcia 3]

I had my RNY Gastric Bypass on November 14, 2016 and lost most of my weight in the first 9 months. I started this journey at a maximum weight of 360 pounds, and on my day of surgery, weighed 334 pounds and am down to 234 pounds. When I was released from the hospital after my Gastric Bypass, I wasn't sent home with instructions to stay on any PPIs or antacids, so since I was feeling great, I stopped taking my daily regimen of Pepcid. In February earlier this year (2017), I had a perforated intestine that nearly killed me (became septic) and was hospitalized for nearly a week after they repaired the hole in my intestines (near the pouch). I went through another treatment for H. Pylori and was on strong oral antibiotics for 6 weeks, and then have been continuing 20mg of Prilosec every day (have recently started weening myself off of it). In mid-April, I became severely constipated and impacted and was back in the hospital with a diagnosis of Prostatitis. Since then, I have suffered from chronic Constipation and have had solid plateaus for several months at a time. I am posting my story because I am trying to see if anyone else out there has gone through anything similar, and I would like to understand if anyone lost more weight after their first surgical anniversary? I am having a Resting Metabolic Rate test tomorrow morning, so I am trying to figure out why I'm not losing more weight, but thought I would post and see if there is any hope. I am taking Probiotics (Culturelle), multi-vitamins, Calcium/D3 chews, and get all my Protein and Water in every day. I also exercise at least 2-3x per week. To get by, I wind up taking milk of magnesia roughly every other day...I only recently stopped taking Stool Softeners...I had been taking a Stool Softener (2x at night, every night for months). Ironically, I notice things move more easily on their own when I drink a glass of red wine after dinner, but don't want to depend on alcohol to help me go. So, I'm posting because of 2 things: the constipation and the amount of weight loss (the length of time, the plateaus, etc). I am hopeful that as I reduce the Prilosec that things will get better as my body starts producing more acid. Keeping my fingers crossed. Any thoughts?

[GwennyPenny 108]

Hi Andre first off let me say wow you have been through a lot. My story has some similarities. My HW 407 SW 367 CW 257. I came out of hospital 12lbs heavier than going in. After a week I started feeling very nauseous and had pain in my stomach. CT showed nothing wrong but I was fully impacted and had to have an enema. After that Fluid subsided and weight came off. Then week 7 I was rushed to hospital and had sepsis urosepsis and kidney stones! I had emergency surgery to put stents in. Over the next four weeks I had 3 more surgeries. Again with all the fluid the weight stalled. All the anaesthetics and pain meds shut the bowel down and I ended up back in there last week having another scan and full enema. For the Constipation I have to take Movicol double strength twice a day as long as I have painkillers. I'd like to come off them but I have chronic osteoarthritis [emoji20]

I also had H. pylori Pre-surgery and had it treated. While in there he saw that I had a hiatus hernia and repaired that too. I had my RNY on Aug 10th 17 and so far lost 110lbs so I'm happy with that and recovering each day. I wish you well with their rest of your weight-loss journey x

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[blondie66 271]

I didn't have Constipation until about 2 years post op. Prior to that I'd eat something sweet and then would get things moving. Now I have it often I need to drink a lot of Water to keep everything moving and sometimes use milk of magnesia but I can go days not going. I find 8 glasses of water a day really helps. I couldn't drink that much water initially it took me about 1 year to be able to drink a cup or water.

And yes I'm continuing to lose weight as long as I eat clean and exercise. I can also gain weight too.