Not the best way to spend a weekend..
I was hospitalized for the third time since my surgery in October last weekend. I'm not sure I could have avoided it but I could have made it a little easier on myself! I was dehydrated (again!) the odd thing was I didn't even know it.
This particular visit started with SEVERE abdominal pain. Right in the pouch. I had taken about 4 bites of a teriyaki bowl.. Three bites of chicken, and a piece of broccoli when WHAM!!! Horrible pain struck.. I was on my back trying to breath and figure out WTH was going on. Let me tell you, my Lamaze breathing didn't help with this pain either but at least I stayed calm enough to be rational about the whole thing lol. Initially I thought maybe something had gotten stuck, although I had never had that experience before I have read here that it happens. After an hour of really terrible pain it calmed down to a low roar... I had some pain MEDS left over from my last issue ( ulcers) so I took a small dose and waited for the sun to rise ... Hoping that I would feel better, no such luck.
In the morning (Friday) I called my bariatricians office, of course they only work till noon on Friday so the nurse advised me to head on over to the ER. I emailed my program administrator and she got my surgeons resident to see me ( having learned from previous experience that even though this is the hospital that performed my surgery, they don't know what to do with a bypass patient ;)- ) after some consultation they did a CT scan and determined that my intestine from my stomach remnant was inflamed..and my gallbladder is acting up ( looks like that will be leaving soon). They never figured out what had caused the initial pain , which is somewhat frustrating. The really interesting thing about this visit was how freaking dehydrated I was... All of my enzymes were off the charts. That required a round of mag sulfate (OUCH) and some potassium . I don't recommend either as a weekend getaway.my heartbeat was winked out from all of this and because I was so low on fluid it took 5 ivs to get me through the weekend.
The lesson here is drink your LIQUIDS!! Just sayin
This particular visit started with SEVERE abdominal pain. Right in the pouch. I had taken about 4 bites of a teriyaki bowl.. Three bites of chicken, and a piece of broccoli when WHAM!!! Horrible pain struck.. I was on my back trying to breath and figure out WTH was going on. Let me tell you, my Lamaze breathing didn't help with this pain either but at least I stayed calm enough to be rational about the whole thing lol. Initially I thought maybe something had gotten stuck, although I had never had that experience before I have read here that it happens. After an hour of really terrible pain it calmed down to a low roar... I had some pain MEDS left over from my last issue ( ulcers) so I took a small dose and waited for the sun to rise ... Hoping that I would feel better, no such luck.
In the morning (Friday) I called my bariatricians office, of course they only work till noon on Friday so the nurse advised me to head on over to the ER. I emailed my program administrator and she got my surgeons resident to see me ( having learned from previous experience that even though this is the hospital that performed my surgery, they don't know what to do with a bypass patient ;)- ) after some consultation they did a CT scan and determined that my intestine from my stomach remnant was inflamed..and my gallbladder is acting up ( looks like that will be leaving soon). They never figured out what had caused the initial pain , which is somewhat frustrating. The really interesting thing about this visit was how freaking dehydrated I was... All of my enzymes were off the charts. That required a round of mag sulfate (OUCH) and some potassium . I don't recommend either as a weekend getaway.my heartbeat was winked out from all of this and because I was so low on fluid it took 5 ivs to get me through the weekend.
The lesson here is drink your LIQUIDS!! Just sayin
HW 274. CW 129
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