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M2PW prepares for consultation re operation. Anyone any gastric bypass info/expertise or support?

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Mytwopenceworth · 05/07/2006 23:53

have an appointment in a couple of weeks to discuss surgery. gastric bypass. i know it's drastic but it is now my only hope. i also know its bloody risky, but its only a matter of very little time till i die if i dont, right?

bit worried, but also very hopeful. can i keep this thread around as my progress and discussion thread please?

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Pamina3 · 17/08/2006 09:08

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oliveoil · 17/08/2006 09:10

There was an article in the Times yesterday, will try and find a link.

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oliveoil · 17/08/2006 09:11

Tis the same one as Pamina3 has linked (note to self: read thread first!)

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CheesyFeet · 17/08/2006 09:48

Wishing you lots of luck MTPW - quite happy to be part of "Team MTPW" if you want me too .

mytwopenceworth · 10/11/2006 07:56

hi again. my op is scheduled for november 29th. i am crapping myself! i am trying to focus on everything going well and me getting my life back ( - no 1, get well enough to go to mn meet up and make tit of self!) but i keep worrying about something going wrong and me dying. dh got really cross with me when i tried to tell him my funeral preferences! i am sure everything will be fine but you still need to at least acknowledge that there are risks, and make plans!

the sensible part of me says they do this op every day, but the nutjob part of me is still crapping it!

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mytwopenceworth · 19/11/2006 18:48

day one of the pre-op liquid diet. GAWD i'm hungry! more psychological than physical i think - knowing i can't eat, rather than actual hunger pangs, you know? cos i quite often don't eat until later than this anyway!

test will be after the kids are in bed which is when i usually eat

and eat

and....

just needed to offload a bit cos my dh has heard me wail i want some toast so many times he is currently in the kitchen comparing sharp knives.......

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2ndtime · 19/11/2006 19:55

M2PW, wow! how exciting!!

I'm sure you are frightened about all the "what if's" but try to stay positive and keep as calm as you can(not easy I'm sure). Think how good you will feel in 12 months time.

I can't really offer you much in the way of advice but just wanted you to know I will be rooting for you and will watch your progress.

No toast! What a nightmare. It's my staple food!!

Good luck. Thinking of you.xx

Yorkiegirl · 19/11/2006 19:57

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Ellbell · 19/11/2006 20:06

M2PW... Didn't see this thread first time earlier, but just wanted to say good luck to you. I overeat as a coping mechanism too. I am lucky that I only do it occasionally, so am still basically healthy, if a bit overweight, but I can see a tiny glimpse of how awful it must be for you (if that makes sense). I hope that you get the help you need with the depression generally and with coping post-op. Good luck. I will be thinking about you.

Ellbell · 19/11/2006 20:08

first time earlier?

Fingers not attached to brain there... sorry!

Good luck again.

Whooooosh · 19/11/2006 20:16

MTPW...is it he bypass you are having or the band?

JoolsToo · 19/11/2006 20:16

didn't know you were going down this road.

I hope everything goes well for you and the op is a success

mytwopenceworth · 19/11/2006 21:36

thanks folks!

Whooooosh - its the band

and yes, i'm on here again trying to keep my mind off food!!

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MyTwoChocolateCoinsWorth · 16/12/2006 21:46

they cancelled it. i posted about it in other places and have moaned freely!

some problems were flagged up at a preop assessment, which meant that the op was cancelled. i am waiting for a referral to sleep clinic re possible sleep apnoea.

i had an appt with the consultant last week. it was the first time i'd actually met the Great Man himself!! (i dont think he liked me!)

mr ackroyd says that the banding is totally innapropriate for me and he says hes going to do a different op (if he can operate at all, we'll wait till after the sleep clinic and stuff). he called it a gastros something, but i couldnt remember the name, so i googled weight loss surgery remove stomach (which is what he said hes going to do to me!!) and its called "Biliopancreatic Diversion" on the internet!!

i think!

anyway, its where they remove most of your stomach - but its not a bypass, they dont staple or relocate your bowel!!!

ive never heard of it before, i only knew about the band and the bypass, but mr ackroyd says its the best option for me.

he also said im the 4th largest person hes ever had.

oh, and he wants me to loose 5 stone by the end of march, when he is due to see me again and (HOPEFULLY) i will have been seen by the sleep clinic and he will be able to put me back on the list!!!

in the meantime, im going to make a pest of myself on the weightloss threads

thanks to Janitor who gave me a slimming world book!! im going to try that!

christmas2NDTIMEmistletoenwine · 16/12/2006 21:55

Oh M2PW. What a disapointment!

Good luck with the weight loss before your next appointment.

You know you can get all the support you need on here.XX

christmas2NDTIMEmistletoenwine · 16/12/2006 21:57

Just realised what he said.

5 stone by March!!

How is that humanly possible???

MyTwoChocolateCoinsWorth · 16/12/2006 22:07

the bigger you are the more weight you can loose at first!! at my current size, 5 stone in, what 3 and a bit months, is like a normal person trying to loose a stone in 3 and a bit months!!

its doable. except im weak! if i could loose weight i wouldnt be needing to have my bloody stomach surgically removed!

but i have to. ive got that slimming world book, so im going to try, and i was thinking of going back on the liquid diet for a month.

the appt with mr ackroyd was fun! he managed to get the words "your size" into a 10 minute appt at least 47 times!! plus 17 morbily obese, and 32 extremely fat.

i felt like saying, i know doctor, its very strange, when i went to bed last night i was a 12 and i woke up this morning looking like jeff capes ugly sister!

when he said i was the 4th largest person i asked him if i got a badge or anything.

it didnt go down well.

mytwopenceworth · 02/02/2007 21:11

well, one month gone already. I can't tell you how hungry I am! I am having bowel trouble, which I suspect must be the fact I'm living on f'ing yoghurt and milk!

I had my follow up about my sats. I had to wear an oximeter (sp?) overnight at home and take it back first thing. next afternoon i rang for the results. At the appt they had told me if it did turn out to be sleep apnoea then they would give me this thing that has a mask and feeds you normal air, but its pressurised. apparently this helps. 2 week trial to see if it worked for me, if it did, i would get my own.

BUT. when i rang they said i had very low levels, they repeatedly went really bad in the night and my pulse did too, and i need to come into hospital to the clinical investigation for about 4 days! they want to check ventilation and my carbon dioxide levels (i never manage to get clearly what they are talking about when they go into medicaleese!)

They said they need to take blood from an artery every morning for at least 4 days.

I am freaking out! I know i am going to be a BIG baby, as i have a full on needle phobia. I am going to be so mardy and a horrible patient, i just know it! then they'll probably tell me they'll never operate because i'm such a bitch![half kidding emoticon]

i hate needles.

a lot.

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