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 tucson, AZ Member Since: 07/25/04 [Latest Posts] | Post Date: 5/30/08 8:56 pm has anyone ever had problems with twisted intestines after WLS? I was just told that I have that, and will need immediate surgery.
227/137/114 90 lbs. gone forever, and I mean forever!!!!!!!! |
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 Goose Creek, SC Member Since: 04/03/08 [Latest Posts] | Post Date: 5/30/08 9:01 pm wow, no but I am assuming its pretty painful? |
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 Oceanside, CA Member Since: 09/07/05 [Latest Posts] | Post Date: 5/30/08 9:14 pm I had a kink, which is much less serious, I ended up spending 8 days in the hospital, drinking only! Water and herbal teas. I unkinked and I went home. They told me to watch for any pain like that again.
And, yes, if it is truly twisted, you need immediate surgery.
You and your family are in my prayers,
Holly
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tucson, AZ Member Since: 07/25/04 [Latest Posts] | Post Date: 5/30/08 9:17 pm Thank you so much Holly, all input is greatly appreciated. How did you unkink.
OH BTW.....our surgery dates are only days apart. June 16, 2006 |
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Oceanside, CA Member Since: 09/07/05 [Latest Posts] | Post Date: 5/30/08 9:57 pm I unkinked at the hospital with a constant morpheine drip and all the liquids I drank, no food of any kind! So I was really grateful that they weren't holding back on the morpheine!
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Member Since: 02/05/09 [Latest Posts] | Post Date: 2/5/09 8:30 pm Holly, I had GBP Surgery and have been having a kinking/unkinking thing going on for a year. They say it is a spasm in my muscle but it feels like a kink to me. It is on my upper right abdomen bemeath my ribs. I have had Ultra Sound, MRI and they cannot figure it out. How did you find out you had that?? |
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 CA Member Since: 10/02/06 [Latest Posts] | Post Date: 5/30/08 11:05 pm I didn't have a kink but a rupture, (3 weeks ago) worst pain I have ever been in, required IMMEDIATE surgery that night to save my life. Spent 8 days in the hospital with a tube draining all gunk and stomach acids out, no food or drink for 6 days. Feeling much better now and after starting over with liquid diet, soft stage, slowly back to regular foods. My surgeon said it wasn't from anything I did (I've followed a no smoking, no caffeine, no sugar, chew everything 20+ times, protein first blah blah blah) Just something weird that sometimes happens.
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 North Aurora, IL Member Since: 07/16/07 [Latest Posts] | Post Date: 5/31/08 7:25 am Not really a twisted intestine for me, but rather 1 week out from Lap RNY my intestines kinked over the staple line by the Y. I was in the hospital for 8 days before they decided that I needed surgery to fix it. So...2 1/2 weeks after my original surgery they had to open me up and revise that whole area. Stayed another 7 days before they let me finally go home. It was horrible for me, but now I am 7 1/2 weeks out from the revision of my intestines and I am doing great and feeling pretty good too. You will be fine and just remember to follow whatever the Dr says. You are in my thoughts and prayers for an uneventful surgery! Monica
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