Re: [WLS_duodenalswitch] CROSSPOST - My first post-op questions

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At 3:46 PM -0400 8/7/01, pamjams2@... wrote:

>Hi everybody,

Hi, Pam. Welcome back to the living.

>

>First of all, did it ever HURT when you drank water?

You betcha. But, not as bad as your symptoms. There may be a

**partial** blockage of sorts that will resolve itself, **by

itself**, in a few weeks or less. Not to worry. In my case, BTW,

Dr. Elariny did not trust the staples at one kink in my stomach, so

he put in a few sutures by hand. This restricted what could pass my

stomach for a while, but it evened out in a few weeks or so -- I

cannot remember exactly.

>This is, by far, the

>CRAZIEST thing I've ever experienced!! It is miserable!! I asked my doc

>about it at my two week post-op visit, and he told me that there were some

>things that they just could not explain. NOT a satisfactory answer!!!

>Well, here I am, four weeks and one day post-op, getting ready to go back

>later today for my 4-week post-op check, and I'm STILL experiencing this.

>Can anyone tell me what this is,

No.

>or WHY it is happening?

No.

>It doesn't last

>very long (thank GOD!!) but it is VERY painful when it is happening. I'm

>99.9% sure that it isn't any sort of gas, because I've experienced the gas

>pains, and this is different. I also feel it when I eat certain foods. The

>best way to explain it is that it feels like I've swalled a GIANT block, and

>it's going down with all the sharp edges poking me. DANG!!!

Sorry that you are experiencing this. A lot of it may be because you

still have not healed inside. But, as long as it goes away after a

sort time, it should resolve itself, as I said above, by itself.

>

>The other question I had was did any of you have a low-grade fever when you

>came home? I've been running a low grade fever (it ranges usually between

>99.3 - 99.6) and it doesn't seem to want to go away.

Yes, I had one even before I left the hospital, and I had to sneak

some ice water to bring down my fever to be able to get out of jail

(they didn't want to let me go when they saw that I had close to 100

degrees F.). Then two weeks later, it blossomed into a hellacious

head cold.

>The doctor told me that

>he wasn't concerned about it, as long as it stays below 101. He also told me

>that I probably had a urinary tract infection because of the catheter, and he

>gave me some Bactrim to take. He DID say that I could possibly still have

>the low grade fever for a while even AFTER finishing the course of the

>BACTRIM treatment, but that just seems strange to me. Of course, I will ask

>him again today about it, but I thought I'd throw that out there to you guys

>and see what you have to say.

Kind of like when you board your dog at a kennel. Or when you send

kids off to college. When you pick them up, they come back with a

kennel cough. It seems that you cannot be hospitalized without

catching something. Be grateful that what you have is all that you

caught in the hospital. I know that I am being cavalier about

something that worries you, but I am also being truthful.

Best,

Steve (aka " angel " )

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