Check out this link:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/thrombocytosis/DS01088/DSECTION=causes

I had an instance of high platelets once prior to my surgery. Fortunately mine returned to normal.
I believe platelets are sometimes elevated if you have any kind of infection your body is fighting.

Good luck, hope all works out for you.

Janet

I am wondering how you are doing and what you have discovered is wrong. I had an internal hernia repair back in 2oo8. My pain definitely came and went until I developed a full blown bowel obstruction. I had sharp crampy pain near my belly button, sometimes to the right and sometimes to the left. I had a lap surgery to look for an internal hernia and my surgeon said he found and repaired one. Well, I still felt like crap after that laparoscopy when I thought it was supposed to be a quick recovery. Then, 10 days after my lap surg internal hernia "repair", I had a full blown bowel obstruction with the same pain only much more severe and vomiting.
Prior to the obstruction, I had pain that would come and go and seem unrelated to eating. It did seem like sometimes if I laid in the right position, it would cure itself...like the bowel would settle into a position where thing could move and I would no longer be in pain.

Yahoo has a great group for women who are pregnant after weight loss surgery. I can't recall the name of it but I am sure if you searched you would find it.

No you are not supposed to! BUT, I do occasionally take some ibuprofen.....it is the only way I can survive my menstrual cramps. The big risk is GI bleeding, so I try to only use it when absolutely neccessary AND always have a little food in my pouch when I take it AND never take more that 400mg at a time.
I have done this for about 2yrs, since about 6mos out of surgery, and no problems so far....but that doesn't mean I won't have I suppose. So I take it at my own risk.

At more than two yrs out,I still struggle with what to eat for breakfast. I usually eat like a half everything type bagel and cream cheese. But I know many can not eat bread, esp early out. I don't know how sensitive you are to sugars, but what about some peanut butter? I find peanut butter on graham crackers to be a good way to get a little extra protein for a snack....so maybe for breakfast?
I also remember early on eating link sausage once in awhile for breakfast.
Breakfast is tough one for me also, even though I wake up hungry!

Have not figured that one out, either. I am over two yrs out and still have that problem to a degree. I do find that I am more likely to dump on anything around my period.....just when I am craving all those dumping type foods! Other than that factor, IDK!

May sound corny but do some soul-searching meditation...you can find meditation music on youtube....it may help you feel where your heart lies or where God is guiding you.

My nut says soups are not for us....to little nutrition that just goes right on through without any being absorbed! However, I do occasionally have a bit of soup now that I am able to eat more solids and don't feel like my nutrition is suffering.

I remember the pain i felt with my internal hernia. I was much like the other lady who had the extreme pain that would then suddenly go away. I had that internal hernia repaired and then 10 days later had a full blown bowel obstruction from another internal hernia. The pain was severe and the nausea would not go away even with Zofran IV. IV Fentanyl helped a little, but Morphine made the pain a bit worse. (When I thought it could get no worse) I can't imagine constipation could cause the kind of pain I had. The pain was internse from 1am until 7pm when they took me to surgery. I couldn't do anything but rock myself and vomit. After surgery I had infection and spent 10 wks recovering. Good luck. Hope everything is resolved for you without incident.

I had lots of negativity mostly from co-workers. I am a nurse, and when you work in the hospital you hear all of the horror stories about the cases gone bad, etc. I was leary at first but after going to a group meeting and hearing so many success stories, I was convinced that all would go well for me. I have a couple of coworkers who could definitely benefit from weight loss surgery and are too scared to have it. One of those who could use it kept calling me "brave" to have the surgery. Even one of the docs I work with was negative. However, it has been two years and I am now down 137lbs, half of what I used to weigh and I am feeling fine. My overweight coworkers are still overweight. I had no complications initially with my surgery. I did have a small bowel obstruction last summer that caused me quite a bit of trouble. My coworkers were then like "would you still have the surgery if you knew you would have that?" Well, that is a moot question but I have no regrets. I did the right thing for me. I needed to get healthy to be able to care for my disabled daughter.
Tell her you have researched the surgery, and while you know there is a possibility of complications, some which can be serious, you choose to have a positive attitude because you know there are many success stories out there.

As a nurse, I had heard nothing but horror stories for the most part. My coworkers thought I was crazy to have the surgery. I had originally thought I would just have the lap band, but after talking to others who had RNY and to my surgeon, I decided on RNY. I did not have a lot of the comorbidities to motivate me such as diabetes or hypertension, but I do have a daughter with a progressive neuromuscular disease that I want to be around to care for. I was worried that I would start to have all of the other problems.
I did for a short while start to wonder if I had made the right decision. Last summer (almost 1yr out from the original surgery) I developed an internal hernia which caused a small bowel obstruction then I had secondary infection which resulted in my having a drain put in. I missed about 12 weeks of work and lost a whole summer. I had trouble eating anything at all and experienced a second round of hair loss. I began to wonder if I was going to need a feeding tube and if I would ever get better. I finally just had to force myself to eat even though I had no appetite and it caused intestinal cramping every time I ate. I got over it though and now I am glad I had the surgery. I am down 143 pounds which is more than what I weigh now! My doctor says what happened to me is only about a 3-5% chance....just my luck.....even if I had known about a 3-5% chance of this happening, I would have had the surgery.
It is a decision that is very personal. You have to have the right motivation and attitude.

Good to hear that you are maintaining. I have lost 145 and will be two yrs out in Aug. So many people have told me about the people they know who gained it all back in 2 yrs....don't want to be one of them! Someone else who had the surgery said yr 3 is the toughest. I am amazed that I am maintaining so far it is like a dream come true!