Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery October 2023 group

[SarahP1220 2]

I had gastric bypass on October 17th. I had a lot of complications. I woke up in extreme pain immediately and was vomiting blood. After 2 days in ICU and 2 days in a regular hospital room, I ended up being discharged from the hospital. A little over a week later, I ended back up in the ER and another week in the hospital. I was unable to keep any fluids down (not even thinking about food). I would vomit immediately and I became so extremely dehydrated that I started having heart papilations. It was very scary. Come to find out, my stoma to empy the stomach into my intestine was so severly inflammed (and also sewn extremly tight) that my stomach was not emptying causing nausea and vomiting. Also a lot of Fluid was pooling around my esophagus. I had to get fluids in me, potassium IVs and a banana bag of nutrients and I was unable to eat or drink anything during my hospital stay.

I am not trying to scare anyone from having surgery--just sharing my experience.

I am feeling much better now, I am home and I am down 40 pounds! I am holding down liquids and starting to eat soft foods like pudding and mashed potatoes.

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@SarahP1220 I am so glad you are doing better, what an ordeal. I hope you continue to heal well, it sounds like the worst of it is over. I'm guessing the inflammation was from the trauma of the surgery?

[New To This23 102]

@SarahP1220 I am so glad you are doing better, what an ordeal. I hope you continue to heal well, it sounds like the worst of it is over. I'm guessing the inflammation was from the trauma of the surgery?

[Crystal Minta 5]

I had the RNY Oct 23.

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17 hours ago, Crystal Minta said:

I had the RNY Oct 23.

Hi Crystal, we are only a few days apart on our surgery date's mine was the 27th. How are you doing? are you tolerating food well? Have you tried anything you used to like and found you don't like it?