dianeseattle
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I'm diane & I live in Seattle. After reaching my highest weight of 269 lbs. in 1995, I began to look into weight loss surgery. It took me a dozen years to qualify based on weight reached and insurance coverage. The hospital kicked in the extra 20% Medicare did not cover, as part of their Compassionate Care Program. I had Roux-en-Y surgery in August of 2007. I lost 35 lb my first month and 25 my second. After losing 75 lb my weight loss slowed dramatically and I plateaued for a few months. But it picked up and ultimately I lost 115 lb in about 14 months.
Everyone has a different story after the surgery because we all have different habits and tastes and likes and dislikes. Aside from being morbidly obese, I didn't really have any other health problems. I complied exactly with the diet I learned from my nutritionist. I took advantage of my good health to get healthier by hiking mountains. I attended the support group meetings, and I was enrolled in a university study for 8 or 9 years afterward. I saw my surgeon once a year.
I learned everything that there was to know about life after bariatric surgery. And as I said before I was extremely compliant. As a result I have had no problems at all except some sadness about foods I can no longer digest. RYGB surgery was exactly the right choice for me.
About a year or so ago I started having problems with sudden onsets of nausea. I saw my doctor and she put me on omeprazole daily & ondansetron as needed. I haven't been thinking of it as a problem and didn't need to take the anti-nausea medication very often, until lately. Now every single time I eat, I become violently nauseous. Sometimes I throw up. And I can only eat about a third of my food before I become too full to finish it.
These are the only symptoms I have. No pain no headache no other physical problem, no diarrhea, no constipation. So I really don't match up to any obvious intestinal or gastric disorder. I have seen my doctor about this and she wants to send me for an endoscopy. But I don't want to go. So before I make that drastic decision, I thought I would check with bariatric old-timers. Is anyone reading this who had surgery years ago without any problems and whose symptoms match mine? I won't use your story to diagnose me, but only as a tool to do research before I finally give in and let them do an upper GI on me.
I am super healthy, a perfect specimen of a person who saved her life by having gastric bypass surgery. I do everything I'm supposed to do, I take all the supplements I'm supposed to take, and I get exercise and eat well. My bariatric surgeon has retired so I'm not going to check in with another one until after I let my regular doctor treat me.
But having had the surgery, I feel I must consider it when I am talking about something going wrong with my stomach and my appetite. Anyone?
Everyone has a different story after the surgery because we all have different habits and tastes and likes and dislikes. Aside from being morbidly obese, I didn't really have any other health problems. I complied exactly with the diet I learned from my nutritionist. I took advantage of my good health to get healthier by hiking mountains. I attended the support group meetings, and I was enrolled in a university study for 8 or 9 years afterward. I saw my surgeon once a year.
I learned everything that there was to know about life after bariatric surgery. And as I said before I was extremely compliant. As a result I have had no problems at all except some sadness about foods I can no longer digest. RYGB surgery was exactly the right choice for me.
About a year or so ago I started having problems with sudden onsets of nausea. I saw my doctor and she put me on omeprazole daily & ondansetron as needed. I haven't been thinking of it as a problem and didn't need to take the anti-nausea medication very often, until lately. Now every single time I eat, I become violently nauseous. Sometimes I throw up. And I can only eat about a third of my food before I become too full to finish it.
These are the only symptoms I have. No pain no headache no other physical problem, no diarrhea, no constipation. So I really don't match up to any obvious intestinal or gastric disorder. I have seen my doctor about this and she wants to send me for an endoscopy. But I don't want to go. So before I make that drastic decision, I thought I would check with bariatric old-timers. Is anyone reading this who had surgery years ago without any problems and whose symptoms match mine? I won't use your story to diagnose me, but only as a tool to do research before I finally give in and let them do an upper GI on me.
I am super healthy, a perfect specimen of a person who saved her life by having gastric bypass surgery. I do everything I'm supposed to do, I take all the supplements I'm supposed to take, and I get exercise and eat well. My bariatric surgeon has retired so I'm not going to check in with another one until after I let my regular doctor treat me.
But having had the surgery, I feel I must consider it when I am talking about something going wrong with my stomach and my appetite. Anyone?
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