3 days post op....

Feb 15, 2020

Good Evening everyone,

I'm three days post op revision from gastric sleeve to gastric bypass...So a little back history I went to my surgeon back in august because the acid reflux that I was experiencing was something terrible. He told me I need to do an endoscopy, I was unable to get one until about december. I had my endoscopy in December and they say that I stage A esophagitis and there was a small hole less than 5mm. My surgeon put me on meds which really wasnt helping me. I saw him again in January to go over the results of the endoscopy and to figure out of we was going to move forward to doing a conversion. After he listened to my concerned, He gave me his suggestion. The only thing I had to do was meet with the nutritionist for a one on one session and then a group session with the nutritionist and the nurse practitioner. Being that I'm almost 8 years out from having gastric sleeve I didnt have to do eveything that someone who is getting the surgery for the first have to do. My surgeon office called me on 1/21/20 and told me that I had been approved and I need to pick my date so I wanted any day that I would be the first case. So 2/12/20 at 9 am I had my conversion,My surgery took longer than expected because when my surgery got in there I had a hiatal hernia so he had to fix that before doing the bypass. I have so much pain on my right side ,I've been able to tolerate eveything from day of surgery. I was only in the hospital one day and was sent home with oxycodone, zofran ,colace and tylenol. I've been able to get in my fluids by drinking lots of hot lemon water which is helping with the gas,I'm also drinking the premier protein, jello and lots of broth. I've yet to have a bowel movement but I have lots of burping and farting  which is such a relief cause that gas pain hurts like hell.

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