My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : What about gas????

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

What about gas????

For those of you reading this wondering what to expect or what could happen, here is a new one for me. . . GAS!

I have never been much of a passing gas person. If I did it was pretty rare and after my gallbladder was removed in 2004 I did occasionally get gas, but it was always in the form of burping.

Since I have had gastric bypass I have gas all the time. At first I thought, okay this from the surgery and after all the gas leftover from the surgery is finished passing I should go back to normal.
Well, as you all know from reading, I didn't have the best recovery and I did have some pretty serious complications with my side opening up and my waste coming out through my incisions and I was hospitalized for 10 days and not able to eat or drink while the Fistula closed up and healed.

With that begin said, I accept there is still more gas passing inside and hurting and yes it did. Although, the Fistula is closed, my incisions are almost completely healed, but the gas is still there. I can hear it and feel it moving inside my belly and after a while, it finally passes. Wow, I feel like such a lady now farting quite a bit each day . . . NOT!

Now, I wonder, will this be my new norm, or will it change over time. I sure hope that it changes and I go back to how I was before the surgery. I don't like this little added bonus, but at least I can say, it is livable to deal with, just not pleasant on the Miss Manners end.

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My Story

Growing up I was always thin and never had to worry about weight issues. I was lucky and thankful. My mother had always had weight issues. I recall being teased in school about having a fat mom. Back in the 1970's it was rare for people to be obese.

Kid's would yell out to me that I was going to be a whale just like my mom when I grew up. It wasn't really nice of them, but they didn't understand. I watched my mother suffer in silence and do the roller coaster with her weight from one diet to another. My mother developed diabetes in her late 30's and her weight loss efforts were all unsuccessful. She is still overweight today.

For me, I was quite the opposite. I had taken after my father at least for most of my life. I was never larger than a size 7, I had five children and was thin again in weeks. I was the woman other women hated. Ironic as it sounds, I was teased in childhood I would be fat when I grew up, and then I was despised by other women because I wasn't fat after I had children.

Then at age 42 I became pregnant with my sixth child. My pregnancy was great without complications other than I had developed gestational diabetes. I weighed 193lbs just prior to delivery and after a c-section I was down to 170 lbs. I didn't have too much to lose to get back down to size.

That is when the weigh gain began. I was tired all the time. I had no energy. I just kept gaining weight. Within a year of my daughters birth I now weighed my per-delivery weight.

What was going on? Not one doctor thought to check that my gestational diabetes had developed in type 2 diabetes after delivery.

I did the norm, I tried all the diets, not one worked. Then my doctor upon my request tested my sugar and was shocked to see it was 362, and confirmed what I was thinking all along. I was now diabetic and could not lose the weight and I was still gaining.

I started Metformin, but still no weight loss even after 9 months of taking it.

Since, it is too difficult to get any type of weight loss surgery in the United States, I have taken control of my life and I am going with the surgery in Mexico.

I have decided to use Roux en Y Gastric Bypass Surgery. This surgery also known as RNY has a 95% chance that I will no longer have diabetes and the weight loss is the bonus to me.

Pounds to Lose.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

What about gas????

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