NON-Surgeon Reviews
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Yeah, the doc cooper that did my surgery is in Seymour, In. Love him but Trish won't be using him because he is either misinformed about how Medicare will pay for the DS under a 50 BMI or he intentionally lied about it because he doesn't believe in DS under a BMI of 50.I don't know which and don't want to find out because he is my hero. I still love him but I was over 50 BMI.
Terri
Well-Known Member
Is he newly doing the DS? Dr. Inman is the only one I had heard of doing DS in Indiana.
There are surgeons that do the DS that are not on the vetted list. He did mine over two years ago and I had a great experience, I'm sure he's done more since. I will say I had a side effect and subsequent hospitalization but that was not his fault. I have AFib and we didn't know about it before surgery. The surgery was too much for my heart and sent me into a crisis with that (not sure what they call it) and I spent a week on the cardiac unit about 10 days after my surgery. I was under the care of a cardiologist for almost 2 years after surgery due to that. I had my surg lap using the DaVinci robot...soooo coool. I'm 10-15 lbs from his goal for me, a few pounds ago, I decided "I'm good" and stopped worrying about losing or I'm sure I could get there if I wanted to. I am now completely milk intolerant but that can happen.
brooklyngirl
Yankee gone south
Yikes! You didn't have to have cardiac clearance beforehand or did they not pick it up?
If it was like MY cardiac clearance, it's VERY basic. UNLESS you have a known history of issues. My dh had had a stroke and multiple TIA's starting back in 2004 and so his was far more extensive than mine.
What I didn't know UNTIL this past Oct is that we have AFib in my family...my daddy's youngest brother.
The kind of AFib I have comes and goes. I had clearance because it wasn't active. I've had it my whole life without knowing about it and the stress of surgery was enough to make it known. I guess lots of people have this. It's just my rhythm wouldn't reset so I had to have IVs till everything slowed down. If it hadn't reset, they would have had to stop my heart and restart it. Luckily, it reset to normal. I take 1/2 a BP pill a day to keep it normalized and that's all now. They didn't pick it up because it wasn't active probably for months before the surgery.
brooklyngirl
Yankee gone south
Wow, glad you're ok now!
Me too
If you ever feel really tired and have a little froggy jumping around in your chest, go to the ER LOL. I'd always had my little froggy and never told a doc about it, my frog was part of me and had always visited from time to time. Woops Frogs are bad unless they are green and on the ground...
I had a heart murmur from taking diet pills in the late 90's. Wore a heart monitor for a weekend, had tons of fluttering documented. The pills were marketed to me by a mother in the parking lot at school as "all natural" and "safe". It felt like my heart was turning around in my chest during a bad episode, but just fluttering, like a tickle most of the time. My idiot doctor at the time said to just ignore it, it was harmless.
brooklyngirl
Yankee gone south
I actually had AFib, and it went undiagnosed for a while. I went to the dr for bronchitis and she noticed my pulse was very fast and did an EKG which came back abnormal. She then sent my upstairs to the cardiologist and he made me go to the hospital, wouldn't even let me drive myself, said I had to have someone take me or go in an ambulance because he thought I had a pulmonary embolism (I was on BC and smoking, stupid). All the tests from the hospital showed no PE so they sent me home and the same thing happened a few months later when I went to the PCP for a sinus infection. I had to wear the monitor and have all kinds of tests and then see a specialist. The specialist JUMPED on doing surgery ASAP, telling me about the increased risk of PE and stroke so I believed him, but he never even investigated WHY I had AFib (and SVT). He said it was just an abnormal cluster of cells, but I only found out later that sleep apnea is a big cause of both, and I had very sever sleep apnea. The weirdest part is that I felt that frog jumping thing sometimes, but never paid any attention to it and everyone kept asking me if I was short of breath or feeli my heart racing while I was having the episodes and I felt "normal". My heart was so taxed from trying to compensate for the lack of oxygen in my sleep that it felt like normal to me. Blah, sorry for rambling!Me too
Yeah. I guess there's a couple different kinds of Afib. The one that's there all the time and the one I have that goes away and then pops up. I think it's ParaAfib or something like that. Mine is the best kind to have. I'm still at risk for stroke but I refuse the coumadin due to the blood tests. I really should at least do an asprin but I start when my froggy starts. Never ignore those feelings, I didn't know any better but I drove myself to the hospital with my pulse hitting almost 200. Once I got in, they wouldn't even let me take a shower for a week. Urrrggghhh
brooklyngirl
Yankee gone south
They put me on a relatively new drug (at the time) for a few months after surgery that didn't require the testing or have the restrictions that comes along with coumadin. I cannot for the life of me remember the name, but there have been commercials for it and I reacted well to it. Wow that was so helpful, lol
Terri
Well-Known Member
Was it by chance Plavix?They put me on a relatively new drug (at the time) for a few months after surgery that didn't require the testing or have the restrictions that comes along with coumadin. I cannot for the life of me remember the name, but there have been commercials for it and I reacted well to it. Wow that was so helpful, lol
