Personal Experience with Staple line disruption

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Was this your experience Ray? Just kinda wondering.

Dan Slone

Surgery 5/2/2000

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In a message dated 08/15/2002 2:03:34 PM Central Daylight Time,

rhooks@... writes:

> My two additional WLS related surgeries were to correct problems with my

> intestinal tract.

Wow! Thanks for the info Ray, never did I realize that you had TWO

additional surgeries. If it is not too personal, details?

Dan Slone

Surgery 5/2/2000

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In a message dated 08/15/2002 2:03:34 PM Central Daylight Time,

rhooks@... writes:

> My two additional WLS related surgeries were to correct problems with my

> intestinal tract.

Wow! Thanks for the info Ray, never did I realize that you had TWO

additional surgeries. If it is not too personal, details?

Dan Slone

Surgery 5/2/2000

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well ray we all knew you were full of crap but thanks for clarifying that

for us. just so the short newbies out there aren't thinking they are safe

from adhesions, as you say it is the tall folks who have room for the

intestinal movement. I am only 5'3'' and I've had surgery for adhesions

specifically twice and had them removed another time as well in an unrelated

op. all the result of wls, I never had a C-section which is another common

cause of adhesions.

I was able to eat, drink and bm during my 24+hr. pain episodes leading up to

surgery. the second adhesion surgery my intestine was actually flipped over

and stuck to itself from the adhesions. picture a balloon animal twisted

adn kinked.

and there is no test, no xray, no nothing that allows a doc to SEE adhesions

so some will have you wait it out, sedate and medicate, while others will

operate - I was always given a choice and picked the quickest end to the

misery of dry heaves, vomiting, waves of excruciating pain which lasted more

than 24hr. of course the dry heaves come on around hour 15 and the vomiting

after 24 - for me.

sue

sue

> The second supplemental WLS was to correct a small bowel obstruction.

> I a 6'2 " tall. In a tall person, there is more room for the intestine to

> move around and possibly develop a kink. That is what happened. The

> intestine shifted and the movement had bent the intestine into a kink.

> This seems to be a relatively uncommon occurrence, but not rare. The

> symptoms were nausea and the inability to eat or drink. It was

> difficult to diagnose because it slipped into the kink position only

> intermittently. After my second trip to the ER because of not being

> able to eat or drink, the initial diagnosis was an impacted large bowel,

> or, I was literally full of crap. I spent two days in the hospital

> during which time I drank a gallon of a substance designed to clear out

> the large bowel. After two days on the toilet, I had a totally empty

> large bowel. Within in an hour of being released from the hospital, the

> pains returned again. They subsided after an hour, but returned 5 hours

> later. It was back to the hospital the next day for an Upper G.I. test,

> the one where they watch barium flow through your intestine. This test

> showed where the kink was and corrective surgery was scheduled. In the

> surgery, he just moved the bowel around but did not cut on it. My

> gallbladder was also taken out at the same time because a gall stone had

> been seen earlier.

>

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well ray we all knew you were full of crap but thanks for clarifying that

for us. just so the short newbies out there aren't thinking they are safe

from adhesions, as you say it is the tall folks who have room for the

intestinal movement. I am only 5'3'' and I've had surgery for adhesions

specifically twice and had them removed another time as well in an unrelated

op. all the result of wls, I never had a C-section which is another common

cause of adhesions.

I was able to eat, drink and bm during my 24+hr. pain episodes leading up to

surgery. the second adhesion surgery my intestine was actually flipped over

and stuck to itself from the adhesions. picture a balloon animal twisted

adn kinked.

and there is no test, no xray, no nothing that allows a doc to SEE adhesions

so some will have you wait it out, sedate and medicate, while others will

operate - I was always given a choice and picked the quickest end to the

misery of dry heaves, vomiting, waves of excruciating pain which lasted more

than 24hr. of course the dry heaves come on around hour 15 and the vomiting

after 24 - for me.

sue

sue

> The second supplemental WLS was to correct a small bowel obstruction.

> I a 6'2 " tall. In a tall person, there is more room for the intestine to

> move around and possibly develop a kink. That is what happened. The

> intestine shifted and the movement had bent the intestine into a kink.

> This seems to be a relatively uncommon occurrence, but not rare. The

> symptoms were nausea and the inability to eat or drink. It was

> difficult to diagnose because it slipped into the kink position only

> intermittently. After my second trip to the ER because of not being

> able to eat or drink, the initial diagnosis was an impacted large bowel,

> or, I was literally full of crap. I spent two days in the hospital

> during which time I drank a gallon of a substance designed to clear out

> the large bowel. After two days on the toilet, I had a totally empty

> large bowel. Within in an hour of being released from the hospital, the

> pains returned again. They subsided after an hour, but returned 5 hours

> later. It was back to the hospital the next day for an Upper G.I. test,

> the one where they watch barium flow through your intestine. This test

> showed where the kink was and corrective surgery was scheduled. In the

> surgery, he just moved the bowel around but did not cut on it. My

> gallbladder was also taken out at the same time because a gall stone had

> been seen earlier.

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