Hey All - I had surgery last Monday and I thought that everything was going great. I went home with anti-nausea medicine and hydrocodone. I misunderstood that I was to only take these as needed and took them every 4 hours as was on the prescription bottle. They made me sleep my 1rst week away with hardly ever walking and waking only to drink a Protein drink or Water. When I ran out of medicine Saturday I stopped it all cold turkey. I've since tried to start walking and moving around but a simple trip to the living room has my heart racing like I ran or sprinted. I feel incredibly weak and it takes all the will power I have to get up out of bed. Today in the shower I thought I was going to fall over so I had to get out. When I sat down my heart was racing with over exertion. Before the surgery I was severly overweight but a very active mother of two children under the age of six. I walked daily and had no co-morbidities... good blood pressure, no diabetes, no sleep problems, no depression/anxiety. I feel so overwhelmed and exhausted now that I just sit and cry thinking that I have ruined my life with this surgery. I feel defeated and I wonder if the exhaustion and racing heart will ever go away. I have to start work next week and I don't know how that is possible the way I feel now. We are a single income family and I have no other choice but to go back to work...

Please have any of you experienced this? Does it go away? Suggestions on what will help? Thank you so much!

Hey All - I had surgery last Monday and I thought that everything was going great. I went home with anti-nausea medicine and hydrocodone. I misunderstood that I was to only take these as needed and took them every 4 hours as was on the prescription bottle. They made me sleep my 1rst week away with hardly ever walking and waking only to drink a Protein drink or Water. When I ran out of medicine Saturday I stopped it all cold turkey. I've since tried to start walking and moving around but a simple trip to the living room has my heart racing like I ran or sprinted. I feel incredibly weak and it takes all the will power I have to get up out of bed. Today in the shower I thought I was going to fall over so I had to get out. When I sat down my heart was racing with over exertion. Before the surgery I was severly overweight but a very active mother of two children under the age of six. I walked daily and had no co-morbidities... good blood pressure' date=' no diabetes, no sleep problems, no depression/anxiety. I feel so overwhelmed and exhausted now that I just sit and cry thinking that I have ruined my life with this surgery. I feel defeated and I wonder if the exhaustion and racing heart will ever go away. I have to start work next week and I don't know how that is possible the way I feel now. We are a single income family and I have no other choice but to go back to work...

Please have any of you experienced this? Does it go away? Suggestions on what will help? Thank you so much![/quote']

Call your surgeon NOW. It could be the discontinuation of the drugs but it sounds like a leak issue. If you can't get them go to the ER now.

call your doctor.

Please phone your surgeon - as mine told me the first warning signs of things going wrong was a rapid heartrate, even with no fever or any other symptoms. Please call, if it's nothing - then at least you were proactive.

I agree, this doesn't sound normal. You should make contact with your surgeons office ASAP.

Thanks all! Turns out I was severly dehydrated so Iam doubling my water intake