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MelbaT    28

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Hello, I was wondering if anyone has/had experienced and elevated heart rate after surgery. I'm 15 days post op and my HR before surgery was ~65 bpm. It's currently sitting at 80-90 with spikes up to 114-120 after even just a little energy expenditure. I'm drinking about 70 oz water/day. I contacted my surgeon's office and they said to schedule an appointment with my regular doc which I did. I have an appointment tomorrow morning. Just looking to see if anyone else on here experienced this and if so, did it go away on it's own, or did it need treatment?

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learn2cook    625

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I had the opposite experience. My resting rate was 74, and that day after surgery it was 53. Now 19 months later my average is around 64, vacation time rate is 52 again. That’s beats per minute per Fitbit. I do wish you the best in figuring it out. When I have a virus, my rate increases dramatically. It’s my first clue that flu or Covid has come back (despite shots). I hope this passes quickly for you!

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SemperVeritas    35

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Yes, my resting heart rate went up at least 10 bpm the week or so after surgery and my Garmin watch showed I was highly stressed. But with the exception of a bad 24 hour stretch I had a good recovery and wasn't really in pain. Just my body doing its thing I guess. It's lower now at 5 weeks post-op than it was before surgery.

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MelbaT    28

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12 hours ago, SemperVeritas said:

Yes, my resting heart rate went up at least 10 bpm the week or so after surgery and my Garmin watch showed I was highly stressed. But with the exception of a bad 24 hour stretch I had a good recovery and wasn't really in pain. Just my body doing its thing I guess. It's lower now at 5 weeks post-op than it was before surgery.

Same here- My Garmin watch keeps giving me highly stressed alerts as well. They mostly happen when I'm out and about at stores, parking lots, etc. I'm sure it's normal and will ease, but I am glad I have an appointment with the doc this a.m.

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MelbaT    28

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Just got back from the Doc. He said I'm anemic. I am currently taking 2 chewable flinstone Vitamins (as my surgeon recommended). They each have 18mg of Iron. I guess not enough. He asked that I check with the surgeon's office to see if I can take more. He did do an EKG that was normal and said that as long as my resting heart rate is under 100, it's considered normal and since it's on the "high end" of normal it make sense that it would spike higher with physical activity. I feel SO much better since seeing him. I haven't been anemic in the 3 years since I had a period and going through menopause! Thanks for your input, guys. I'm hoping once I'm fully healed and eating more normally and taking all the vitamins/supplements I'm supposed to that my heart rate and anemia will go back to their normal levels. :)

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MelbaT    28

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Update- I spoke to the PA at my surgeon's office. They recommended I start 325mg Ferrous Sulfate with a 500mg Vitamin C tab to increase the absorption for the anemia. We'll see......

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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