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Anyone get dizzy spells? I am 11 days post op and I have been having dizzy spells all day. I should call the surgeon or my doctor? It's Sunday so I'm not sure what to do.

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I'm 23 days out and never had a dizzy spell. I would definitely call my surgeon if I did. Even on Sunday someone should be covering for him

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Anyone get dizzy spells? I am 11 days post op and I have been having dizzy spells all day. I should call the surgeon or my doctor? It's Sunday so I'm not sure what to do.

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Are you diabetic? .. Are you having any other symptoms?

Munky

Maybe call ask a nurse.. Tell them about the surgery and how you're feeling and see what thy suggest?

Munky

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Are you getting all your fluids in? I get dizzy spells because of dehydration

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I had a lot of dizziness early on.

Talked with my clinic, and they took me off my BP pill immediately, encouraged me to drink as much Water as I could possibly tolerate. At one point I had to go in and get a couple units of IV saline. Made me feel SO much better.

Went away after a couple months.

Turned out to be a combination of dehydration and low BP.

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after surgery I was still on my diaretics for BP, also lasex, which DR did tell me not to continue taking, however my daughter had a miscarriage the day before the surgery, and I totally forgot what he told me. My daughter, a nurse, was supposed to be with me in the hospital to have another presence to listen to instructions, but she was having a dnc, while I was in surgery, and I was thinking more of her than me. ended up in hospital, peeing out more than taking in, with keytones at 2.1, stayed overnight. they took me off all bp meds then my bp started rocketing, and legs swelled up, so it put me a few weeks behind till it all got straightened out. All good now, losing weight consistently. Lesson learned about going to dr, should not have piddled around for so long.

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I checked my blood pressure at Walmart just now and it was perfect. I am gonna see my GP this week for a checkup. The doc on call said it was most likely dehydration and not taking Vitamins, which I can't tolerate the ones I have. So I just bought some Centrum minty chewable vitamins and we'll see how that goes.

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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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