I was banded on 11-30-07. last Friday. not even a week ago.

yesterday i thought i was okay to drive and to go to the store.

i got in the store and started having cold sweats , felt real weak

and panicky. mind you i suffer from panic attacks.

this morning i woke up , running around the house gettign little ones

ready for school and had the same cold sweats. i don't feel as though

i have a cold or anything. did any of you have this happen.

thank you. by the way, so far, i have lost 10 pounds. :clap2:

The cold sweats happened to me 9 days out while I was waiting in line at the outlet mall. I found that I felt much better when I sat down. At that point I was also still on clear liquids, so I wasn't getting very many calories either. I didn't even try to drive until about 2 weeks post-op.

I had this the night before Thanksgiving, my operation was on the 5th of Nov. I thought I was having a panic attack,so I took an Ativan and my whole body was shivering for half an hour. It is low blood sugar. when that happens,take some orange or apple juice that has sugar, put it under your tongue and it will work right away. Then drink half a cup.The nutritionist told me to have some fruit with my meals. Since I can't fit fruit and protein sometimes,as a snack a make a fruit shake with splenda once a day and it stopped. I was worried that I was the only one.

Then I realized that it wasn't a panic attack,because my heartbeat was normal.

I hope this helps.

Bella.

Thanks guys. i was scared that something was wrong with me. i have no pain and i am doing all that the dr. recommended so i didn't know what to think. I feel better knowing that others have done the same thing. think i will not try to drive again for a few days.

i don't know if you have problems with your blood sugar or not, but i did the same thing that you are, and my blood sugar was getting too low. when i was about 3 days out, i drove to the grocery store, it was dh's idea to get me "ready" for work. dh and ds were with me and we were supposed to just get milk and some Soup. about 15 minutes later, the store kind of tunnelled on me, and everything started spinning, and i was getting cold sweats, and i honestly almost fainted. i just thought i was too tired, when i got home and sat down it felt better. well the next morning when i got up to get ready for work i could barely focus to get my make up on, my eyes were really blurry. and i was so dizzy that i kept having to sit down for "breaks". so i called my doc and they said i needed a little juice (just a little) for my sugar, and i didn't have the problem anymore (had to have a little juice more often than that one time).

just a thought, a lot of times when you are on liquids only there isn't much room for Protein (you probably aren't very hungry) and you are probably cutting a lot of simple carbs that your body is used to having.