Often, if patients are not closely followed by their bariatric providers and attempt to have their care delivered by their local care providers, important issues may be overlooked and unnecessary difficulties may arise. IF not, I'd strongly recommend that you contact them IMMEDIATELY. Your post Verticle Sleeve Gastrectomy (VSG) recovery has certainly NOT been smooth! It is uncommon (but not unheard of) in my experience for patients to have this set of symptoms following the procedure.įirst and foremost, although you didn't state explicitly that you are continuing under the care of and working closely with your bariatric surgeon/surgical team, I assume that to be the case. Surgeon Response to 'My Gastric Sleeve Complications Story'īy: John Rabkin, M.D., Pacific Laparoscopy Any advice? What should I do? I’m so stressed about it. I have not had any protein in a month and a half which is when all my problems began. Tried some soup today but was only to take 4 sips of it. I’m scared and just feel like if I don’t get this under control I could lose my life. Today I am still not able to eat but force myself to drink water and a Powerade. I started throwing up bile again and got very, very sick. No results so the next day I took one more dulcolax and one more colace. Realized I was constipated so I took 2 five mg dulcolax suppositories and one colace around 5pm. My doctor drew blood last week to check for abnormal levels but no results yet. I am scared and don’t know what is going on.

It doesn’t affect me walking but I have night sweats on my legs only at night. I have been home from the hospital for a week and a few days and my body is still numb. My legs, part of vaginal area, parts of arms are numb and have been since my hospital stay. Was given 3 tap water enemas, protonix, zofran. I had to complain several times to each nurse before they told the doctor. I was given so much IV fluid that I became swollen everywhere. The doctor said he ordered every test he could think up and everything looked fine except for the MRI which showed a collection of fluid at the surgical site. Finally, I went back to the ER and was admitted a second time for another week. Couldn’t keep anything down and in extreme pain at the surgical site. Problem is I still felt awful and could not eat or drink. Went to surgery to get it removed and was released from the hospital the next day. After 1 week I was finally diagnosed with gallbladder issues. Since I had nothing on my stomach, I was only throwing up bile. I was throwing up every day while in the hospital. Was not taking vitamins during the month of not eating because I would throw them up. Went to the ER and was hospitalized with malnutrition, low potassium and magnesium and, dehydration. Then I started having trouble eating and drinking. I started walking a lot and the weight came off fast.

I was doing good for the first month or month and a half. I regret having this surgery because I’m sick every day. I am 3 months and 1 week post op gastric sleeve.

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