You poor thing! You are really having a time with it. I pray things will get better and hope to see you soon. Keep in touch.

Wow, I am sure this is the last thing you expected. Hope everything turns out ok and have a speedy recovery.

Could it be the herbs and probiotics you are throwing into your poor sleeve everyday? Do you know exactly what is in those herbs? Just because a naturopath says they are good for you doesn't mean they are. Just a thought.

Nope, they are the first thing to help, just started them a month ago and I've had this nearly a year. The herbs are slippery elm and marshmallow root. Both benign as far as irritation and in fact they are mucilaginous, meaning they coat well. Without them I can't function and forget sleep. The probiotics are megafoods megaflora, a very good product. If I could eat yogurt I would not need them but I can't....

My staples are titanium.. I don't know enough about nickel/titanium. What did they use with your surgery? I've not heard of using nickel with major surgeries as this and I didn't realize there's an allergy with titanium? I thought that's why they used it (along with NOT setting off metal detectors!).

@CidCHerise I think she is saying that the titanium staples are not ALL titanium, that they contain 10% - 14% nickel with 90% - 86% titanium. Kinda like 14k gold, we call it gold but it actually is only 58.5% gold with a number of other metals in it.

I hope that you have a virus and not the metal allergy. Prayers for you!

Correct. My staples are "titanium" but apparently almost all metals need some sort of alloy mix. It truly never occurred to me that there was nickel in them and I researched the sleeve procedure nearly to death, as most of us do. It only came up because I googled stomach staples allergy. Then I dug out my slip with the kind of staples they used on me and found the manufacturer. They says all titanium surgical staples are 10-14% nickel. As for metal detectors, nickel is not ferrous just like pure titanium, meaning it does not attract magnets or set off machines.
Mine were Covidien Endo Gia staples.
When I get results back I'll post.

Hugs back Grace, healing thoughts your way

Sorry I missed this post last month. Hopefully you have more answers by now and are on your way to recovery! (((HUGS!!)))

I missed it too- thanks for bumping this pack89! Grace - sorry to hear all this is happening for you. Always glad to hear from you - miss you as always.

Grace I knew you said you weren't feeling well - I am sorry you having a rough time... I hope you are sorted out soon...
thanks for sharing about the Nickel which worries me as I am unable to wear anything with Nickel in it. I hope that my sleeve staples are going to be ok.. I will just cross that bridge when I come to it.. take care and hope you will be better asap
keep me posted take care - thinking of you Hev

Hi sleeve folks!
Wanted to be honest and come back and say I had nickel testing and I am only slightly allergic to it (at least according to a patch test), therefore it's not the staples giving me trouble.
After that, I saw a specialist gastroenterologist who deals with bariatric patients. He says that chronic gastritis is quite common in people with already sensitive stomachs who have bariatric surgery/ had excess acid to begin with and then have gallbladder troubles. He's given me a food plan to follow and says it's his largest focus right now to try to get bariatric programs to either take the gallbladder out during surgery, or to at least prescribe actigall every time for a year after surgery to avoid gallbladder issues for folks who lose weight quickly. He also said this is far more common with the sleeve than the rny as we have more acid build up than they do. Note he did say he has seen at least 3 cases a month of this in the last 2 yrs, so if you have gallbladder issues and your stomach still hurts after removal, it's likely this is you as well.
My stomach is healing now finally after 13 months of hell. I caught myself smiling the other day for the first time in a long time.
If you even think you have gallbladder issues, please discuss actigall or a similar drug with your doc if they won't just take it out during surgery or if you don't want them to... It took 8 long horrid months of testing for me to be able to get mine out and then another 5 months of healing to get back to something like normal. And it was totally unnecessary.
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I see my bariatric team this week. I've gained weight (27 lbs) trying to deal with getting food down over the past year and honestly don't care at this point. Maybe I will in a few months when I'm all healed up. Right now I just want them to understand that their decision to not offer actigall or to take out my gb at surgery even though I already has stones was not a good one, perhaps it will change their minds going forward for others. At the very least, a discussion of gallbladder issues should be part of the program so that patients know to ask their PCPs about it.
hugs to all of you! Hope the newbies are all doing well and maybe now that I don't hate, hate, hate my poor beleaguered stomach so much I'll be able to come back more often.

Hi Grace, glad you are smiling again

Thanks for the info! So glad to hear you are healing! Hope those smiles get more frequent every day!

Glad to hear that it is not the staples!!

I am metal sensitive, can only wear gold or titanium in piercings. Have multiple staples with no problem, but if I even wear surgical steel earrings for a few hours they start to get red and swollen and then if I dont take them out (or forget) I will start to get body aches and chills.

Good luck with your recovery!!