Help for India Post-op

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Depending on where you live India, most areas have VNA, the Visiting Nurse

Association. At a minimum you should have phone contact with someone. You will

need pain meds afterwards and those can make you spacey. Don't want to pour hot

water on yourself. How much help you need is partly a matter of which procedure

you are getting. Which are you considering? A laparoscopic vertical banding

will have you dancing the next day (almost). An open RNY with gall bladder

removal means you will be on your back (sure can't roll anywhere else for

awhile) for at least a week and you should definitely have someone come over

couple times a day (make all those boyfriends help you) if not stay with you.

Shauna Thalman wrote: WOW! 129 lbs on your

own THAT IS AWESOME!! dedication!!! That could not have been easy... WTG!

I highly suggest you having someone with you the first few days after surgery

just in case of any possible issues. I mean, I would have been fine on my own,

but I felt less stressed knowing someone was there for me. I had children too,

so my sister helped me TREMENDOUSLY!!! I suggest it India if you can get the

help... even if they just come and visit for a little bit each day.

Best Wishes,

Shauna

kittyinthehouse wrote:

> Suzy, I too had to be on a 1200 calorie a day diet before surgery.

> Then about 3 weeks before surgery I was on 2 protein shakes and

Lean

> Cuisine for dinner.

> --------------------

> What is the reason for doing this prior to surgery? Thanks.

>

> India

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In a message dated 8/26/06 4:10:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time,

highdesertrat77@... writes:

> How much help you need is partly a matter of which procedure you are

> getting. Which are you considering? A laparoscopic vertical banding will have

you

> dancing the next day (almost). An open RNY with gall bladder removal means you

> will be on your back (sure can't roll anywhere else for awhile) for at least

> a week and you should definitely have someone come over couple times a day

> (make all those boyfriends help you) if not stay with you.

>

Ok, #1 point ... not boyfriends ... one ... I like sex but am not a hussy!

ha ha ... and hopefully I'll have the RNY lap and they said the gallbladder

removal can be lap at the same time and adds about 30 minutes to the surgery.

Again, I haven't even seen the doctor yet so I have no idea. Not sure I'd agree

to open in any case. And I like the article someone sent about simply making

the stomach smaller and not doing the bypass part as it avoids the dumping

thing, still removes the part of the stomach that produces the appetite hormone,

and hair loss and vitamin deficiencies are not a problem as there is no

malabsorption. I know someone in Northern CA who had that as a first step as

she

was too medically fragile (severe systemic lupus that affected every major

organ). That's the only surgery she had. She lost all her weight with the

" preliminary " surgery and never had to have the full bypass. I'd actually like

that, though I'm not sure it's an option. From the orientation I went to, it

seems they are only doing RNY, 99% lap, some open. Again, I won't know till I

ask. It's like the more I learn the more questions I have. And if I have no

options, I don't want to know of possible options I can't have.

I also may not be able to read all the e-mails. 80% of them are one-liners

that I just pass by to get to the ones with actual text ... but I had so many

e-mails this morning that it was overwhelming. I don't have time to spend

hours reading e-mails, especially when such a high percentage don't say anything

really. Sorry to be negative, but I'm desperate and really need this list and

am already having to hope I'm not missing something important by deleting a

lot.

India

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In a message dated 8/26/06 10:02:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time,

alittleisenough@... writes:

> The bypass part of it is what can help keep you in check tho. I know

> that if I had the ability to eat whatever I wanted w/out dumping then

> just making my stomach smaller wouldn't matter. I'd still eat the

> sweets, breads, etc that I shouldn't. I don't eat those things out of

> fear of dumping. Yes, you're eating smaller amounts; but if you're not

> eating the proper protein & such & filling up w/ other things what's the

> point? So, that's something to think about as well.

Thanks, W. That's good info for me to know. The reason I thought just

making the stomach smaller was an experience I had two years ago. I had to

have a spleen biopsy, and there were six biopsy sites. Because they don't

usually do this without just removing the spleen because of danger of bleeding,

it

was dangerous. They put this foam stuff in each of six biopsy sites to stop

the bleeding. Well, I had a bleed immediately and didn't know it and it was

horribly painful. Then, three days later, I woke up coughing because apparently

when you can't breathe in deeply (the spleen rests on both the stomach and

the diaphragm), the lungs at some point want to clear. So once I went into

sleep and relaxed all over, the coughing fit started to clear my lungs. I had

two

bleeds then and ended up in the ER again praying for death just for the pain

to stop. Almost had to have emergency surgery. It was so painful for about

six weeks that I could barely eat. Just a few bites and I was full ... one

more bite and I'd get sick, and vomiting risked another bleed so I couldn't,

just

from pain. I lost a bit of weight. So I guess my logic says I could

continue that forever. But you're right ... maybe I'd make poor choices if I

didn't

have the threat of dumping (or in this case, the threat of vomiting and having

another bleed and possible spleen rupture). Thanks for the input. Helps me

get a better overall " after " picture and pop my fantasy balloons of something

less drastic.

India

[Guest guest]

The bypass part of it is what can help keep you in check tho. I know

that if I had the ability to eat whatever I wanted w/out dumping then

just making my stomach smaller wouldn't matter. I'd still eat the

sweets, breads, etc that I shouldn't. I don't eat those things out of

fear of dumping. Yes, you're eating smaller amounts; but if you're not

eating the proper protein & such & filling up w/ other things what's the

point? So, that's something to think about as well.

The emails are hard to deal w/ at times. It didn't bother me so much

before I went back to work. I had all day to devote to email. LOL! But,

now that I'm back to work...I only have my evenings. I don't always read

each & every email. But I at least scan over them....reading bits &

pieces. If I don't get thru them all in one day they'll be there the

next. :-)

W

380/316/160

indiaink99@... wrote:

> Ok, #1 point ... not boyfriends ... one ... I like sex but am not a

> hussy!

> ha ha ... and hopefully I'll have the RNY lap and they said the gallbladder

> removal can be lap at the same time and adds about 30 minutes to the surgery.

> Again, I haven't even seen the doctor yet so I have no idea. Not sure I'd

agree

> to open in any case. And I like the article someone sent about simply making

> the stomach smaller and not doing the bypass part as it avoids the dumping

> thing, still removes the part of the stomach that produces the appetite

hormone,

> and hair loss and vitamin deficiencies are not a problem as there is no

> malabsorption. I know someone in Northern CA who had that as a first step as

she

> was too medically fragile (severe systemic lupus that affected every major

> organ). That's the only surgery she had. She lost all her weight with the

> " preliminary " surgery and never had to have the full bypass. I'd actually

like

> that, though I'm not sure it's an option. From the orientation I went to, it

> seems they are only doing RNY, 99% lap, some open. Again, I won't know till I

> ask. It's like the more I learn the more questions I have. And if I have no

> options, I don't want to know of possible options I can't have.

>

> I also may not be able to read all the e-mails. 80% of them are one-liners

> that I just pass by to get to the ones with actual text ... but I had so many

> e-mails this morning that it was overwhelming. I don't have time to spend

> hours reading e-mails, especially when such a high percentage don't say

anything

> really. Sorry to be negative, but I'm desperate and really need this list and

> am already having to hope I'm not missing something important by deleting a

> lot.

>

> India

>

[Guest guest]

UGH! Sorry you had to go thru that. Sounds horrible. I've seen the

lap-band work for people. They can lose weight w/out the dumping. But,

in my case, since I had to pay for the surgery myself I wanted to know I

was getting the " cadillac " of the surgeries, so to speak. Ya know?

This was a one time deal for me. I need those restirictions on what I

can eat for this to be successful. And I don't miss all those things I

can't eat anymore. As someone said... " It doesn't taste as good as thin

feels. " Seeing those scales go down and clothes getting to big makes up

for all of it. :-)

W

380/316/160

indiaink99@... wrote:

>

> Thanks, W. That's good info for me to know. The reason I thought just

> making the stomach smaller was an experience I had two years ago. I had to

> have a spleen biopsy, and there were six biopsy sites. Because they don't

> usually do this without just removing the spleen because of danger of

bleeding, it

> was dangerous. They put this foam stuff in each of six biopsy sites to stop

> the bleeding. Well, I had a bleed immediately and didn't know it and it was

> horribly painful. Then, three days later, I woke up coughing because

apparently

> when you can't breathe in deeply (the spleen rests on both the stomach and

> the diaphragm), the lungs at some point want to clear. So once I went into

> sleep and relaxed all over, the coughing fit started to clear my lungs. I had

two

> bleeds then and ended up in the ER again praying for death just for the pain

> to stop. Almost had to have emergency surgery. It was so painful for about

> six weeks that I could barely eat. Just a few bites and I was full ... one

> more bite and I'd get sick, and vomiting risked another bleed so I couldn't,

just

> from pain. I lost a bit of weight. So I guess my logic says I could

> continue that forever. But you're right ... maybe I'd make poor choices if I

didn't

> have the threat of dumping (or in this case, the threat of vomiting and having

> another bleed and possible spleen rupture). Thanks for the input. Helps me

> get a better overall " after " picture and pop my fantasy balloons of something

> less drastic.

>

> India

>