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OK guys this is why we are here right to support each other? So I need some people to help me think outside the box here for a min. I am in pain still can not eat and just hell depressed I think. I not the depressed oh I want to end my life I am the depressed if this **** does not get fixed soon I am ending someones life. ( just venting, not going to happen I am WAY too cute to go to jail) So here is the short list of problem and anything and everything you could think of that it could me let me know. I have started journal the date and times that anything goes into my mouth to help the docs, hoping to get some ideas to help them out. ( YES I want to tell the doc what is wrong so they know how to fix me..wow I do need help huh?)
12/03 rny bypass
12/30 dehydration
12/31 stricture ulcer
1/3-1/11 held prisoner at the hospital bc Dr b is a meanie ( he cares just wouldnt let me go home until I could drink 64, dude that's so hard when your in pain..geesh)
2/18 egd everything looks fine ulcer is healed..YEAH...thank you god its over......
Or so I thought so I still have the pain in between my boobs, this is pain not pressure. Pressure in my back and I ALWAYS have the bgs ( bubble guts). My pain is about a 5 normally sometimes a 8 that's when I tend to freak out. I left the hospital bc I could drink through the pain I can not eat through the pain and I am forever spitting something up. I only going to the potty for number 1 1-2 times a day and number 2 maybe 2times a week. So tell me am I normal? If I am I swear I will leave them alone, but I am starting to get scared. (I don't scare easily) Dr. B told me it was gas but this is not gas pain this is someone sitting on my chest with an ice pic in my chest pain. Is that gas????? I hope it is. I still have my gallballder but all the scans come back okay. I am on ulcer meds still just in case and gasx all the time. I just....grrrr.... Okay so see guys not venting just asking for help in my EXTRA long post. So any ideas????
Unfortunately I have no answers for you. I too have suffered with calf pain, but not the way you have. I have always assumed it was due to potassium deficiency, upped that, and I do get some relief.
I am 5 years post op distal RNY and now 3 weeks postop revision due to inability to stop losing weight. I hear you regarding almost wishing you were still 300 pounds. I feel the same way a lot of the time. I weigh 89 pounds now, and have no life. I cannot do anything with my kids, had to quit my job, and basically am surviving on antinausea meds and pain meds. It is definitely no fun. I feel your pain, although it is in a different way for me.
I sure hope you get some answers soon, and that maybe the rheumatologist can figure out what is going on with you. Have you been tested for RA and Lupus? I am sure you have, but just wondered. Just know you are not alone...RNY can be a blessing, but at times, can be a curse...it just sucks! I just want to be well again...is that really too much to ask? LOL
Take care, and keep me posted on what the docs find out.
Laura
Linda (3 yrs post op}
Tiff
Current MD- Dr. Mikami, Honolulu Hawaii
Lapband 14cc AP Lg in 2008- slipped and removed 2016 -VSG July 21, 2016-dx Gerd
** RNY Revision 05/21/2019 **
"A few drops of hope can water and nourish our garden" - Jean M
I adore Dr. Thomas R Brown from CBSI in Denver. He's like Mr. Bean in a way. Dry humor, smiling eyes. I really felt at ease. He just sort of casually sauntered in and started explaining things. He answered all of my questions like we had been friends for years. No nonsense, no little rays of sunshine, just honest to goodness truth.
But sadly, that is as far as the good times roll. I had some complications after surgery. At only 2 1/2 months out, my port stitches came loose and Dr. Brown refused to fix it for free. This should have been covered!!! It was less than 90 days out from surgery and typically any complications (surgical errors) are remedied by the MD at no charge. This was not the case. My new MD even agrees that he should have been responsible and liable to fix the port stitches.
I was informed by the billing office at CBSI that since I paid the discounted cash pay price of $9900.00 that no complications would be covered. Yes- I paid cash for this through donations from friends, family and a sizable loan.
This complication fix/refusal was NOT in the paperwork I signed. NEVER in any of the contracts did it say that since I was paying the lowest fee, I would be getting the lowest quality of car and the lowest amount of service.
I have since transferred care to closer to home. I would NOT recommend going to Dr. Brown as a cash pay patient or if you do, get the additional BLIS insurance for cash pay patients that is advertised on this site. If I would have done that, this would not be an issue. I'm going to have to pay an additional $4000 dollars that I don't have to replace the work that should have been covered under the 90 global. This stinks!!!
Tiff
Current MD- Dr. Mikami, Honolulu Hawaii
Lapband 14cc AP Lg in 2008- slipped and removed 2016 -VSG July 21, 2016-dx Gerd
** RNY Revision 05/21/2019 **
"A few drops of hope can water and nourish our garden" - Jean M
Watch my first appearance on The Doctors TV Show (aired Dec 2008)
Plastics done by Siamak Agha, MD (lower body lift/spiral thigh lift) in Dec 2009, breast
Cynthia's Lower Body Lift procedure by Dr. Siamak Agha this includes footage from my first and second appearance on The Doctors as well as footage of my actual surgery
Mary,
I just read your post and by now you've probably had your surgery. I hope all is better. Please let us know how you're doing. I will pray that all your trials are over and that you are on the road to recovery.
God Bless.
Congrats on the pound, and I mean it, it is so weird to be going in a different direction, and I am glad to hear that you are going up :)
I think everytime we have surgery, the adhesions start all over again, viscious circle, I have the same problem, must be an over-healer. I will update my blog today, but in a nutshell I am back in the hospital because I came in Tuesday for the ERCP (therapeutic cutting of the Sphincter of Oddi to try and solve my nausea/pain issues), and a small number of people can develop pancreatitis afterwards, and of course that had to be me! So, I am stuck here until they feel like the pain is under control, and until I can eat/drink, and they may be replacing my PICC while I am here since it has this pump constantly beeping. I understand about the pain medicine issues too, I am constantly paranoid about taking it, but if you need it, you should take it, no one deserves to suffer. I will keep checking on your progress and praying for more weight to come back and for you to feel better, I hope they find the source of that pain also, very frustrating for you.
Jules RNY 10/30/2007
What happened? Why are you back in the hospital girl? I am so sorry you are having so many problems...I will continue to pray for you!
Things with me are going okay. I have weighed 91 pounds 2 ounces for the last 4 days, so I think it is a true gain of 1 pound. I still am not able to eat much and am having lots of pain. The pain is the hard thing to deal with because I'm afraid that my docs will think I am just drug seeking, so I am trying to cut back as much on the pain meds as I can, but I also don't think it is fair that I have to go around hurting all th time. I thought that once they cleaned out all the adhesions that my pain would go away. Boy was I wrong. I am wondering how quickly adhesions grow back, and if you have them cleaned out if they grow back even more so? Do you know the answer to that?
Take care and please keep me posted on your progress!
Laura
