Same thing happened to my daughter. There is nothing mechanically wrong with her sleeve, but about a month after surgery she could no longer eat and began to vomit everything. She was admitted to the hospital for 4 days the week of Christmas and then sent home with no resolution. She became sicker. I took her back to the hospital on January 27th. For four days the doctor told me she was faking and looking for attention. He took away all of her fluids, would not run any tests, and let her sit there. On day five (her 20th birthday no less) she went totally blind. A new doctor ordered an MRI. She had bleeding in her brain. We were later flown four hours away to UAB where it was discovered that her entire brain had swelled. She was having seizures and was put on life support. She was diagnosed with PRES and Wernickes. Wernickes is devastating and caused by malnutrition. My daughter is in Neurological intensive care for day number 43 so far as a direct result of gastric sleeve surgery and doctors dismissing her when problems arose. She was in a coma for over a week. She was on life support for a month. She has a trach now. She cannot speak. She cannot sit up unassisted. She cannot maintain blood pressure up or down. She cannot maintain her heart rate. She has flatlined numerous times. She has a 6 inch incision in the center of her belly where they had to do surgery to insert a J-tube. She now gets all nutrition and medications through that tube. My daughter's life hangs in the balance every single day because I allowed her to have wls. I used to champion this surgery. I thought it was amazing. It almost killed me a year ago, but I thought it was just my bad luck. Now I know this surgery is just not as safe as I thought it was. Sometimes it can go wrong. Sometimes it can have life threatening consequences to otherwise healthy people. I I'll never recommend it again. I can't. Not after what we've been through and are going through.
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