15 Days After Gastric Bypass Surgery

I’ve been doing pretty good lately. I had an appointment on the 25th with the Physical Therapist, Nutritionist, Psychiatrist, and Surgeon and Nurse. It all went very well and they said to keep doing what I’m doing. Mostly working on exercise, getting enough fluids in and getting enough protein in. I have lost 20 pounds so far, in about three weeks.

However, last night at about 1:00am, I started getting a stabbing pain in my stomach. I don’t know why or what is causing it. We went to my primary care doctor today and she ordered an Urgent ultrasound of my abdomen, but I can’t get that done until Monday at the earliest because of insurance approval.

The pain hasn’t let up, even with Liquid Vicodin every four hours. I can’t get any liquids down because I feel extremely sick and nauseous when I do drink, and then my pain gets worse. Even when I drink the medicine. Definitely 10/10 on a 1-10 scale of pain. I just hope I do NOT end up back in the hospital on an IV because I can’t get fluids down. It’s always got to be something that goes wrong, right? At least with me it does!

This next week is going to be a rough one, so please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

Always,
Kaitlyn