3 Hospitalizations later

Aug 04, 2013

Over the the last month or so I was very very sick. After I hit the 4 week mark I seemed to go in reverse. I had advanced my diet to include solids. And I was able to tolerate them initially. But somewhere along that time my body decided that's not what it wanted to do. I was admitted for the first time on a follow up visit July 2. I had an emergency EGD performed as I ha not been able to eat or hold anything down for about 2 weeks. A slight dilation was performed at the size of 18mm to ensure no area was smaller than that. But anatomically everything looked good with my sleeve. Yet I was not able to hold anything down. I was released a couple days later on July 4th after being given some fluids as I was dehydrated because I had been unable to even hold water down. I was extremely nauseous all the time and vomiting anything I attempted to eat as well as drink. My second hospitalization occurred exactly a week after the first on July 9, 2013 at my follow up to the previous hospitalization. I had still been unable to hold down anything. I was basically living off of sugar free popsicles and ice chips. At this point it was discussed placing a feeding tube down my nose that would end in my intestines bypassing digestive processes in the stomach since feeding by mouth wasn't proving to be successful. The tube was placed while under anesthesia while yet another EGD was performed. Yet after 3 days the tube had not moved to where it should have been. And the most horrible thing happened... I threw up the tube. So literally one end was end my nose and the other coming out of my mouth. after being able to keep down a few liquids I was discharged a week later despite the same symptoms present that were prsented at the time of admission. During these two stays I had numerous tests ran... I had multiple upper GI xrays done, I had a Hyda scan done which is a nuclear medicine test where they test the function of your gall bladder... also had ultrasound of my gall bladder liver kidney pancreas...I also did a barium swallow test with radiology reports... and nothing was found on any of these tests to suggest abnormality.... So four days after that hospitalization I was seen at finally a different hospital's ER. My chief complaint was that I had been feeling numbness in my body since i was given this patch for nausea and I had the patch on for all of 24hrs and removed it yet it had been several days and the numbness had not worn off. Yet I had still been unable to hold anything down. I was admitted after lab test came back and implied I had pancreatitis. After a short stay and treatment..... I was released feeling like a new woman...First off I was seen by 3 different dr's two of which were specialist. Among the three of them they reordered the previous tests done at the other hospital... the barium swallow test revealed my esophagus was spasming not allowing passage to my stomach....hyda scan revealed that the ejection rate of my gall bladder was not functioning correctly, stool sample revealed that I was still positive for H. pylori, I was treated unlike before with a corticosteroid which seem to be the magic trick in restting my digestive function!!!! ow almost two weeks since my release I'm proud to say I'm feeling better than ever! And 72lbs down at 10 weeks out!!!

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