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Hi there graduates...

My name is and I had my surgery on May 7th of 2001 almost 15 months

ago. My highest weight was 349 and I was at 329 on the day of my surgery. I

am now at 193. I am 5'8. I also have 2 sisters who have had the surgery as

well and a brother that is just waiting final approval from his insurance

company. Needless to say, our weight was in the genes so to speak. I am

experiencing some problems lately although, they may be minor problems to

some, they have really done a toll on me mentally. I have a rather large

hernia to the right of my belly button and a little north of it as well. I

have seen my surgeon about it and we are looking at this fall sometime for

the repair and TT at the same time. I had a problem back in early April

where I over did it on the exercising thing and got a horrible pain up and

down my scar, which in turn made me stop eating out of fear. This in turn

made me get acid relfux quite bad due to not having food in my stomach for

the acid to attach to, hence the reflux pain. That took me about a month to

get over, after finally realizing that my only problem was not eating often

enough. That whole situation made me basically turn into a hypochondriac sp?

I am terrified of my health and every single little ache and pain I feel.

Over the last 2 weeks, I have had horrible " bubbles " which my dr attributed

to me taking " augmentin " for a sinus infection and me getting a yeast

infection right away from that. He thinks it is a build up of bacteria in

the intestines from the antibiotics, which made sense to me somewhat, and he

suggested eating yogurt once a day to help build the " good " bacteria back up.

Well, I am now on " amoxicillian " the pink stuff for a sore throat and I am

terrified yet again to get these bubbles. I had them yesterday for a few

hours but they finally went away, today my problem is my scar is a little

sore, which I thought at 15 months out is ridiculous, but it truly feels like

muscle pain. I can't believe how this surgery has made my mind get so

screwed up. I seen a psychologist back in April and he said I have obsessive

compulsive disorder and wanted to put me on Prozac, well, I absolutely did

not want to do that, so I have been trying to deal with it myself.

BTC-Ypsilanti, Mi (where I had my surgery) has been absolutely wonderful with

me coming up there all the time with one problem or another, they did several

tests, including complete blood work, xrays of all the plumbing and

ultrasound of gall bladder with everything being just fine and gall bladder

being completely clear. I spend so much time " looking " for a problem and I

hate that about myself. I am afraid of the gall bladder thing, a blockage of

the intestines and anything else you can imagine to go wrong with me. I

think my real problem is me knowing I have another surgery waiting for me

with this hernia, and that terrifies me to death, I am scared of surgery

itself, which I shouldnt be after the open rny I already had. I am hoping

that someone with kind words of wisdom who is farther out than me can help me

to see why this thinking is wrong....sorry so long :-))

R

349 highest

329 5-7-01

193 8-2-02

BTC Ypsilanti, Mi

Dr Poplawski