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Was it a stomach virus?

AlwaysLorri

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AlwaysLorri    31

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This 4th of July weekend was the worst in the almost 2 mths in the post op phase. Sunday night, I got the weirdess chills. I couldn't get warm and was shaking, yet it was 80 degrees in my house. the bottom of my ribs near my top incision felt super tight and when I coughed it hurt badly. It lasted most of the night and by the morning, I felt weak and unstable. I tried showering but kept crashing into the nearby walls. Fearing that I would fall I headed back to bed and slept 10 hours and only woke to have a few zips of Water. Today, I awoke with a pain on the top of my right shoulder, a little less weak but my stomach still felt tight. Anyone ever experience similar symptoms? I feel like I am a newbie out of surgery, DAY 1.

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SherB    220

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Call your doctor. Better safe than sorry. Good luck.

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I was sleeved on May 27th. Saturday night i was getting chills. I went to bed and I was freezing. I couldn't stop shaking. My skin hurt. I don't know what it was but, it was really scary. I had 3 blankets on me, and my room was about 78 degrees. I timed it about 45 mins, then i must of fell asleep.

The next morning I got out of bed and my legs felt like noodles. I took some tylenol and after a while they felt okay. Sunday afternoon i started with chills again and went to lye down. It passed.

It was so strange, I feel good now. I was just so blown away when i read your post.

Hope your feeling better, if you find anything out let me know.

Patty

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AlwaysLorri    31

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I was sleeved on May 27th. Saturday night i was getting chills. I went to bed and I was freezing. I couldn't stop shaking. My skin hurt. I don't know what it was but, it was really scary. I had 3 blankets on me, and my room was about 78 degrees. I timed it about 45 mins, then i must of fell asleep.

The next morning I got out of bed and my legs felt like noodles. I took some tylenol and after a while they felt okay. Sunday afternoon i started with chills again and went to lye down. It passed.

It was so strange, I feel good now. I was just so blown away when i read your post.

Hope your feeling better, if you find anything out let me know.

Patty

Patty, so odd that we experienced similar symptoms. I was so scared, I didn't know what to do with myself so I slept it away. I'm feeling 75 percent better than I did earlier. Hope you are too. Keep me posted, I think it must have been a 24 hr virus.

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AlwaysLorri    31

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Just want you guys to know I've been in and out of the doctors office. It seems that I had an infection of some kind do to Fluid left near my staple line. We were really scared of a leak but I passed a CAT scan and Esophogram. Thank goodness!!! I've been on high antibiotics for the last eight days. Feeling much better fever gone hopefully fluid too. I have a follow up on Monday. Lost almost 15 lbs in the process, no eating will do that. I'm feeling 80 percent better. Hopefully 100% very very soon.

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Just want you guys to know I've been in and out of the doctors office. It seems that I had an infection of some kind do to Fluid left near my staple line. We were really scared of a leak but I passed a CAT scan and Esophogram. Thank goodness!!! I've been on high antibiotics for the last eight days. Feeling much better fever gone hopefully fluid too. I have a follow up on Monday. Lost almost 15 lbs in the process, no eating will do that. I'm feeling 80 percent better. Hopefully 100% very very soon.

Thanks for the update, I'll keep your syptoms

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snowkitten    371

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Just want you guys to know I've been in and out of the doctors office. It seems that I had an infection of some kind do to Fluid left near my staple line. We were really scared of a leak but I passed a CAT scan and Esophogram. Thank goodness!!! I've been on high antibiotics for the last eight days. Feeling much better fever gone hopefully fluid too. I have a follow up on Monday. Lost almost 15 lbs in the process, no eating will do that. I'm feeling 80 percent better. Hopefully 100% very very soon.

Thanks for the update, I'll keep your Symptoms in mind after my surgery

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So glad you're doing better!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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