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Originally Posted by Zenomia
Sorry to interrupt the thread, but what complications did you have Megan, if you don't mind my asking... I understand the Heperin shots, I had to administer them to my mother when she had a blood clot in her leg.
It's good to know about the good and bad things that can happen when thinking about WLS.
Laura
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I had surgery April 27, 2005, everything went fine. About 1 month post op, I started getting a very sharp pain in the middle of my upper abdomin, near my pouch. It would happen for now reason, out of no where, it didn't matter if I had recently eaten or not, so it ruled out dumping or something stuck. The pain would happen every other day and when it happened, it would last 10-30 minutes. I would try everything to make it stop, walking, laying on my back, my side, eating, drinking, anything I could think of, and nothing helped. My doctor thought maybe I needed to take an antiacid so he prescribed me Previcid. Didn't work.... So I just dealt with it everytime.
At the end of July, I had an episode so bad, I honestly thought I was dying. I went home from work early, around noon. By 1pm I was in tears, my husband came home from work and called my surgeon. They said it sounded like I had something stuck, whatever! I hadn't eaten anything. They said to give it a few hours. I laid down and was finally able to take a nap. I work up at 4pm and was immediately running to the restroom, vomiting. We call the doc again, they want me to drink lots of water and see if it helps, I do it, about 8pm I am still sick as a dog, and in very much pain. Call doc again, he admits me to the hospital over the phone, tells my husband to rush me there asap! Now I am scared.
I get to the hospital, the residents on the gastric bypass floor ar waiting for me, they stick me with all kinds of needles, hook iv up and send me for a catscan. The scan showed nothing to I had a upper GI done. Everything looked fine, no ulcers, no strictures, staple line looks great. Mt blood work came back and my liver enzymes were rather high. They did a scan on my liver, looked good, so they did one on my pancreas, it too was good. They were stumped. They wouldn't allow me to eat or drink for 2 days and they were shooting me full of morphine for the pain. Day three the pain was gone and they put me on a liquid diet, then soft to see if I would keep things down, then they sent me home.
At the end of August it happened all over again and they did all the same tests, it was an identical hospital stay. Still, couldn't find anything.
About mid september, it happened again. Finally I had an answer, and boy was I mad! The problem was liquid Tylenol! It was being released to quickly into my body cuz of my tiny pouch, my liver just couldn't handle it, so it was trying to fight the Tylenol and get it out of my system. The IV would help push it out and my body was forcing me to vomit to help it out of me! The pain was my liver spasming. I was never allergic to Tylenol before surgery, and I can do Tylenol pills just fine, but the liquid was killing me lol
All of that hospital time and tests ended up costing my insurance company more then my surgery! It was some where around $50,000 for all 3 times.
I have never posted my experience before because it is such a long story. Sorry..... but you asked lol
I guess it wasn't so much a complication, but more of a nasty side effect. But the liquid Tylenol wouldn't do this to me if I did not have the surgery, so maybe it's a weird complication!
LAURA, my complications, from the heprin thread
Wow
DRAVEN ROBERT STROME was born on May 7TH @ 5:27 A.M and weighed 7lbs 10 oz. and was 21 inches long
I a am so happy you finally found out what it was...and they didn't have to re-open you!
Thanks for answering that one....didn't mean to get personal...but WOW. What a thing to have to go through over something so simple as liquid Tylenol!! I guess there would be a LOT of medications, over the counter and perscribed that you can't take now...That is ALSO news to me. AMAZING.... I am sooooo glad they figured that all out for you and you won't have to go through that again!! 
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