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Help! I need a GB mentor or Support Team B4 I go Krazy!
Oct 16, 2008
Hi All! i a little new to this. Just need to relate and i little help. Had my GP Surgery 8/15/08. the first two weeks, i was in pain but all was well. was even doing great and going to the gym working on upper body arms only. on the 3rd week, everything went down hill from there. i have been extremely sick and in pain. i ended up in emergency which they discovered 3 bruised ribs and a bruised kidney! i guess they are things that are potentially possible after this type of surgery but its been hell.in addition, after an MRI, they found 5 hematomas that are pain full as hell. between the shakes and the pain medicine, the constipation is unbearable, painful and dangerous.
things do seem to start getting better now. but i need suggestions on constipation and diet. i went in at a BMI of 38.5 & 215 so i am still battling myself if i made the right choice for me and that of my Dr.
i have lost over 55lbs but not sure if it is the surgery, the fact that i can barely take anything in or that i spend most of my time in the er.
Sounds worst but the experience after the first two weeks was and is awful. i am feeling better and doing great but have major problems with diet and constipation and the eating of solids, which make me feel like I'm chocking if i don't vomit it.
i told my husband that i wanted a long term solution for a better health being and style and we did decide to have the surgery due to severe heart problems, hypertension, murmur, cholesterol , back , leg pain etc. all of that, and i am happy to report that that is all gone now. Thank God.
but now i have other problems. I guess its a healing process. i do feel alone, other than my family who support me 100% but they do not know all the answers to my questions nor can they relate to me because of my surgery and so I'm reaching out! in addition to little to no support from my Dr.s office whom the person assigned to me acts like i bother her, so that should have been my first warning.
Well...glad to join you all. Hopefully you can all share some insights with me, diet, constipation, life, it would be most greatly appreciated!
