Re: Re: Confused re panni instructions

[Guest guest]

I am so glad to see this thread. I am getting ready to have surgery soon

(hope to have a date by Friday.) I need to check on a couple of my meds

for blood pressure.

Lori Owen - Denton, Texas

SRVG 7/16/01

Dr. Ritter/Dr. Bryce

479/356/hoping for close to 200

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:23:15 EST WRC@... writes:

> Kricket -

> A word of warning. Before my last surgery on 2/14/03, I was asked

> what I was

> taking and told my doctor, however, I forgot to tell her ALL of the

> vitamins/supplements/Pain Free I was taking. I always knew about

> aspirin, but don't

> ever take that anymore, so I gave it no thought about what

> vitamins/herbals I

> may have forgotten to tell her.

> Long story short - while doing my panni, she had to PULL OUT and not

> complete

> the rest of the surgery (bilateral scar revision on my outter

> thighs) because

> of the excessive bleeding she was running into with the panni. She

> said the

> panni took her double time because of all the bleeding and couldn't

> figure out

> why it was happening. We pasted it all together after the surgery.

>

> I will be having a brachioplasty, full panni revision and my leg

> scars

> reconstructed on Feb. 10, and, believe me, I have stopped EVERYTHING

> except my

> calcium and multivitiman. She okayed those, but just for me.

>

> Do what your doctor advises. I never even considered " Pain Free "

> (chondrotin/glucosimine) to be a problem, but anything that

> increases blood flow or thins

> the blood will/can be a problem. Better safe than sorry.

> Bobbie

> Anchorage, AK

[Guest guest]

Gads, , given the aspirin, E, etc, it's good to have you with

us. <G> I did continue my centrum chewable up until about 2 days

before surgery, but quit everything else. Wish I had continued my

colace, believe me. I'm just back from a double round of plastics

in CR. The docs are very pleased with my healing, but I will say

that the second round (arm lift w/lip and breast lift w/implants)

has not remitted as fast as the first (full face lift, brow lift,

neck lift, rhinoplasty, upper/lower lids, lip enhancement, TT, leg,

waist and back lipo). All my initial drains came out at 3 days (TT

and face lift - 3 drains). (traditional with these docs - they do a

series of internal stitches which stitch the layers together on the

TT, so the drains can come out earlier).

Pam in Niceville

Re: Confused re panni instructions

As one who bled and bled and bled after a " mini " facelift which

should have

taken about 10 days to heal from completely which ended up requiring

a pump

hanging out of my ugly neck for weeks, drop everything except

prescriptions

before your surgery. A week or two isn't going to hurt anything.

There are

people who never take supplements and manage to live somehow,

although I

won't be in that particular group of " gamblers. " Seriously, your

doc may

not even know what supplements might cause excessive bleeding or

other

complications since many dietary supplements are not studied that

scientifically. I was taking many things that thinned blood,

apparently.

The surgeon's wife also warns against excessive Vitamin E

pre-surgically,

since everyone hears it helps with healing. I was taking Omega

fatty acids,

glucosamine, baby aspiring, Vitamin E and god knows what else.

Next time, I will drink water and protein before any surgery,

nothing else.

in Austin

RNY April 1998

315/190s