mattman
Ahhh my personal weight loss surgery saga...
Dates are guess work based on previous posts etc, please forgive me if they aren't perfect... when your sick and drugged dates aren't real important :-)
30th of May – VSG
Woke up with hiccups that lasted 3 days.... not fun... No good cure so they kept drugging me until i feel asleep, the concern was that the hiccups could hurt my new tummy as well as being really unpleasant.
4th June
Finally stopped with the hiccups and was released from hospital
5th June
Hiccups back... ended up back in hospital for 3 days because i couldn't get any fluids down.
They did a CT scan and a barium swallow and found that I had a restriction half way down my new stomach. They are hoping if they leave it alone it might resolve itself without intervention.
8th June
Home again
Having trouble taking the anti acid medication and the acid was really giving me grief.
10th June
Some improvements, starting to get fluids down.. up to about 800ml in a day. Can't do anything thicker than water, but that's a start.
12th June
Stopped taking the anti acid as I thought they were making me feel sick...
(Note this is where things really went down hill and in hind sight its because the acid got out of control and made my stricture worse)
16th June
Started vomiting (mostly foamies) but can't keep anything down....
Into emergency and had 3L of fluid by IV and managed to get myself back home.
Over the weekend and things didn't improve... finally ended up throwing up blood on Sunday and took myself back to hospital.
They have decided to do the endoscope and checkout the stricture... back on an IV and anti acid meds..
Couple days later started feeling much better, unfortunately the hospital got really busy and they let my cannula dry out.... after 8 attempts at getting a new one they decided to go a “Central line” like a cannula but in a major vein in your neck, because I was vomiting they couldn't sedate me so went through it all very very very awake... not fun at all...!!!!
21st June
Endoscope and they decide during the procedure that it looked good enough for a “stretch”. Gotta say the endscope is great, no big deal at all..
Woke up feeling really well....
Dr commented that the acid damage to my oesophagus was very visible..!
22nd June
Wow feeling great, can drink, eat custard, yogurt, jelly...! This is the best since the surgery.
23rd June
Back home again and trying everything... can only eat tiny amounts, but no trouble with pasta or soups etc... going to try some toast in the morning.
Finally...!!!
My biggest lessons...
Don't checkout of hospital if your not feeling 100% sure your ok.
Take the anti acid...! I really went downhill when I stopped taking it.
4 weeks is a really long time without eating :-)
I'm asked if I would go through the whole thing again.... YES.. YES YES YES..
Don't get me wrong, this last month has sucked big time...! But I'm going to add years to my life and improve the quality massively... worth a month of yuck... hell yes..!
Here's the weight loss chart.. keeps me smiling...
