Well, I thought I would give a little update since my last post. Things haven't been going as well as expected. My dumping episodes have increased to about 6-7 times a day. Because I haven't been able to keep the proper nutrition in my system, I've lost a lot of weight in a little bit of time (about 15 lbs. since my surgery). That was a bit more than I originally expected in only five weeks. It's a bit unnerving.
Now on my last post I talked about having thrush. Since then I've gotten an infection that has caused blisters to form on my lips and under my bottom lip and above my top lip. My doctor thinks its in relation to my immune system not being up to par from my chronic illness and still healing from my surgery. It's really painful and uncomfortable and can take a while to clear up depending upon what type of infection I have. We are trying one method (an antibiotic cream that I put on the blisters 3 times a day), but if that doesn't seem to be helping in the next two days I have to go back and we'll try another script.
So with everything going on I'm a bit frustrated right now. Things are not going quite as I'd hoped, but it is what it is. I'm seeing my surgeon next Monday since things aren't going so well (I originally was going to see him Oct. 2nd and he still has me seeing him then too). I'm hoping that we might at least be able to bring the dumping episodes down from 6-7 times a day to 4-5 times a day. However, I'm also in complete understanding that could just be a pipe dream at this point.
Trying to stay positive, and hoping this cream helps my very painful blistering infection. Fingers crossed!
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