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2008-10-07 Bariatric Surgery - gastric sleeve: Hi Jeff: You need to see either your surgeon or your primary care physician to accurately diagnose this. It could be a hernia.. a stitch abscess... etc. Just see if you can stop by and see either...
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2008-10-06 Bariatric Surgery - surgery cancelled low hemocrit: Tami, I understand that you must be tremendously disappointed. There are 3 reasons I can think of to postpone a Band procedure because of anemia: 1) the blood count may be so low that your body is...
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2008-10-03 Bariatric Surgery - VSG and RA: Hi Mark: You're right in that some surgeons do OK NSAIDs for use with the Sleeve Gastrectomy and Duodenal Switch. In general, they are banned from the RNY procedure as it is feared that they cause...
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2008-09-30 Bariatric Surgery - Options after band erosion: Sam, I'm sorry to say but in my mind it is pretty clear that one should not have another Band if one has had an erosion. The scar that will have formed from the first erosion is quite likely to "wear...
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2008-09-30 Bariatric Surgery - drinking alcohol after lap band surgery: Monique, I have a two-part answer for you: 1) If you want to know what your body will tolerate, and what you can get away with, you can drink alcohol at one week after surgery. 2) If you had the...
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