There is a good chance, especially if the pain is on both sides, that the pain is from laying down in the hospital bed for a couple days after surgery and from laying on the operating table during surgery. This can cause inflammation or temporary ischemia in the muscles, tissues, and skin. The pain should get better within a couple days. You should let your surgeon know about the symptoms right away.Especially if the symptoms were on only one side, then the surgeon would have to make sure that there is not a blood clot. But that would be very uncommon if the symptoms are on both sides. An electrolyte abnormality can also rarely cause these symptoms.To help the symptoms, walk around a lot, drink lots of fluids and water, and avoid laying or sitting for long periods of time in one position. Try laying on your side.
Hello,I am a board-certified, fellowship-trained bariatric surgeon.Usually with a BMI of 46.3, diabetes, and sleep apnea, the gastric bypass is best because it would cause the greatest weight loss and the best chance of resolving the diabetes, compared to the sleeve gastrectomy and gastric band. If you have the gastric bypass, you have to be able to switch pain medications for your hip. After the bypass, you can't take aspirin, Motrin, ibuprofen, Advil, Naproxen, Aleve, or Excedrin, since these can cause ulcers after a gastric bypass.One option to discuss with your doctors - change to a different pain medication for your hip. If the pain is controlled without ibuprofen or the other medications listed above, then you could have the gastric bypass. If you definitely need the ibuprofen, then you could consider a sleeve gastrectomy. You could discuss these things with your surgeon.Sincerely,David Henry, M.D.
You didn't eat or drink after midnight the night before the sleeve gastrectomy. For the past 5 days, you have probably been drinking mostly liquids. Your stool is loose now since you've been drinking mostly liquids. Once your diet increases, and you are back to eating more solid food, then the stool should become more formed. Since you will eat less food because of the sleeve gastrectomy, you may have stool less often, and the stool may be more soft or loose than it was before surgery. As you eat more food, the stool should become more solid over the next 1-2 months. If it is a problem after that, let your surgeon know, and he or she can consider prescribing a medication to make the stool more formed.
Hello,I am a board-certified, fellowship-trained bariatric surgeon.The best time to do plastic surgery after weight loss surgery is after the maximum weight loss has occurred and the weight is stable. This usually happens 1-2 years after bariatric surgery. Like you mentioned, your original BMI of 32 is fairly low, and you're close to your goal weight of 150 lbs. Since it's only been 3 months since your sleeve gastrectomy, you'll probably still lose more weight. Once your weight loss stabilizes for 1-2 months, then you should have great results with plastic surgery. The plastic surgeons who said to wait 12 months are reasonable - if you have plastic surgery sooner, then lose more weight, then the results of the plastic surgery may not be as good. Plastic surgery is mainly to remove excess, saggy skin. If you lose a lot of weight after plastic surgery, then the skin may become saggy and loose again. That usually doesn't happen if you wait to have plastic surgery until your weight loss has stabilized, generally around 1-2 years after bariatric surgery, depending on the initial BMI.Sincerely,David Henry, M.D.
