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I am almost 4 weeks out from my surgery and is up to the puree stage of my diet.
But today for some reason I had a very bad anxiety attack, which I am medicated for, and believed I was going to die of I didn't eat something solid. So I went to my fridge and took out a cold piece of KFC wing and bit down on it 3 times before I could snap myself out and threw it out.
Now I'm fighting the urge to panic because I had not only eaten solid food, it was also deep fried and I barely chewed it. I tried to throw it back up but the more I tried the more pain I felt in my gut, like I was trying to squeeze my gut too much.
It's too late to call my doctor now and he won't be open till Monday, am I in a lot of trouble? Should I call the hospital?
Right now I'm just feeling nauseous and nothing else. I can feel my stomach rumbling alot but nothing has happened yet and it doesn't hurt.
Has anyone cheated like me before? Did it cause a lot of complications?
Good morning!
I wrote this blog post for people who would like to know how smoking affects their Gastric Sleeve Surgery.
Check it out here:
https://youtu.be/eML317P0Elc
Regards
Dr. Alvarez
Thank you, a good read and quite a timely and relevant blog.
Good morning!
I wrote this blog post to help out anyone that can't stop comparing their weight loss journey to others.
Check it out here: https://www.endobariatric.com/weblog/2021/03/10/the-dangers- of-comparing-yourself-to-other-gastric-sleeve-surgery-patien ts/
Regards
Dr. Alvarez
I have started a low calorie diet recently and I'm keeping track in a journal. I hope I'll be able to scale down faster by keeping an account of all calories on a daily basis.
on 3/8/21 5:21 pm
Hello, if you're still alive after those years, do you still have dry lips and if no, do you know what the cause was?
Here is a video I found of a surgeon performing the procedure if anyone wants to see it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_SbDqhueRU
I desperately want to avoid getting an RNY (if I could go back in time, I never would have had bariatric surgery at all to avoid the risk of ending up with an RNY), so I am hoping that this is actually a viable option.
I just recently found out that there is a surgical procedure that might be helpful for those of us who have a hiatal hernia and GERD after the sleeve to repair the problem without having to convert to an RNY. It is called "Cardiopexy with Ligamentum Teres" (basically they wrap part of a ligament from your liver around the esophagus to reinforce the lower esophageal sphincter)
Here is a recent article that discusses this technique if any of you want to show it to your doctor and get their thoughts.
https://www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-9610(20)30814-X/fulltext#gr2
Have any of you had this done, or at least been able to talk to your surgeon about it? It seems like this is not yet being done widely, so I would welcome any info any of you have about it. Thanks!
Hi. I know this is an old post, but if you are still here: can I ask, what did you end up deciding to do about your hiatal hernia? I am a post-VSG patient who now has a hiatal hernia and I am trying to find out as much as I can about what my options are. I am like you in that I am worried I will be told that I need to do yet another bariatric surgery to fix this. That really is not what I want, so I want to know if it is possible to fix this without resorting to that.
Hi. If you are still reading this forum, do you mind if I ask how you are doing since you had your 2nd hiatal hernia repair? I am probably going to end up needing a hiatal hernia repair myself and it seems really hard to find people who have had hiatal hernia repairs after they had the VSG. It seems like there are a ton of people who have it repaired at the time of the initial surgery but little info on what outcomes are for those who develop them later on.
