Hello everyone:

I was wondering if anyone has been experieinceing any dizziness since being banded? I was banded in february 2008. Every one in a while I now get dizzy. I am seeing my doctor about this to see if we can find a cause for it. Now that I think on it, i don't recall getting dizzy every once in a while until i had my surgery.

I was also wondering if anyone had any muscle cramps or anything as well. I am not tryign to doagnose myself. But I was wondering if this coudl be related to being banded.

thanks for your help.

Is it possible that your blood sugar is getting too low? The muscle cramps can be caused by low potassium. Please do talk to your doctor about these problems and they can suggest a fix. I hope you feel better soon.

Take care.

Sue

Is it possible that your blood sugar is getting too low? The muscle cramps can be caused by low potassium. Please do talk to your doctor about these problems and they can suggest a fix. I hope you feel better soon.

Take care.

Sue

Hello Sue:

As soon as I started to get dizzy and have muscle cramps, I hopped my big chocolate butt right to my doctor. I am currently awaiting the results of several tests. I hope they shed some kind of light on what is causing these symptoms. I posted this question to see if other banders have had any similar symptoms. I know that other forums have said that gastric bypass patients get dizzy due to nutritional deficiencies, but they don't really say that this is frequent in lapband patients. however, dizziness is listed as one of the side effects in the lapband brochure.

I also understand that just because other people have similar symptoms that they may be from completely differnt causes (i.e. not band related). I was just curious if it could be band related though. i don't recall ever having any of these symptoms until i got banded.

I think that it is probably nutritional/electrolyte kinda stuff, but I will DEFINTELY follow the advice of my doctor. i am not one of those, " I have been vomiting blood for three weeks. Does anyone else vomit blood since being banded? Do you guys think i need to see my doctor?" kind of bandsters. :thumbdown:

Thanks for replying.

Congrats on your success.