Re: surgery is coming up and getting nervous

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My heart goes out to you, and yes worries before surgery are normal.

Remind me I said that when and if it is my turn lol

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At 10:12 AM -0700 9/6/01, kathy overstreet wrote:

>Hi Everyone,

>My surgery is coming up in 8 days and I can't sleep

>and I am getting very nervous I am not afraid of the

>surgery I am afraid of the afterwards.I have looked in

>to wls for 3yrs. and now that it is finally here I'm

>starting to get alittle freaked out.I this normal?I'm

Thoroughly normal.

>afraid that afterwards I won't be able to stop eatting

>and that the whole surgery will be for nothing. I'm

Won't happen!

>also afraid that the pain after surgery is going to be

>to much. I have had 2 c-sections and wanted to know is

>the pain worse then that?

Being a male, I cannot answer. The pain was bad for the first two

days (I had a lap), and then it hardly bothered me at all. Not even

enough to take pain meds. But, days 1 and 2 were not fun.

>I handled those surgerys

>with no problem.But I heard this could be alot worse.

Probably not much worse.

--Steve

--

Steve Goldstein, age 61

Lap BPD/DS on May 2, 2001

Dr. Elariny, INOVA Fairfax Hospital, Virginia

Starting (05/02/01) BMI = 51

BMI on 09/04 = 41

[Guest guest]

Hi Kathy:

> I have looked in to wls for 3yrs.

> and now that it is finally here I'm

> starting to get alittle freaked out.

> I this normal?

Completely NORMAL!

> I'm afraid that afterwards I won't

> be able to stop eating

Believe me, you'll stop eating. It's physically impossible not to.

> I'm also afraid that the pain after

> surgery is going to be too much.

No worries. Dr. Anthone uses an epidural, which makes you pretty

much NUMB from the lower chest down. In about 10% of cases the

epidural doesn't work. In that case, Dr. A will switch you to a PCA

pump thingie loaded with Dilaudid, a synthetic opiate that is about

1.6 times MORE powerful than HEROIN.

In my case, the pain from the surgery was essentially gone by about

day four post-op. Some folks have a little bit for a longer time,

and a few even need to take vicodin for a few days at home, but I

think that's pretty rare.

So, don't sweat the pain issue. I really doubt it's any worse than a

c-section.

HTH

Tom

Panniculectomy, Dr. Anthone, 11/10/2000

Open DS, Dr. Anthone, 03/30/2001

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ds_usc>

Goal: Lose 80% of Excess Weight

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* Starting Weight = 386 *

* " Ideal " Weight = 142 *

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* Total Excess Weight = 244 *

* 80% x Excess Weight = 201 *

* Goal Weight = 386-201 = 185 *

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* Total Needed to Lose = 201 *

* Loss To Date = 118 *

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* Remainder to Goal = 80 *

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08/27/2001 . . 265

08/20/2001 . . 268

08/13/2001 . . 270

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07/23/2001 . . 276

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