Today is day three of my little lap-band journey. I was getting up to take a shower and took a glance in the mirror and realized my right pupil was fully dialiated. It is as big as the color part of my eye. My left eye is normal.

I freaked out... called my doc and she said I might be having a stroke!!! (Anxiety went thru the roof!!!) She advised me to call 911... I didn't feel like I needed the whole fire truck and ambulance sha-bang so my bf just drove me to the ER.

When I got there they took my vitals, did an EKG, and admitted me. Everything was coming up normal so then they opted to do a cat scan.

Soooo many people came to look at my eye and asked me billions of questions.

So to make this already long story short... The DOC came to the conclusion that it was the Scopolomine Patches. I was not warned that these patches that go behind your ear can do this. A lot of time, money, and most of all totally freaking out could have been preventive if someone just told me.

I googled it when I came home and found that a lot of people have this reaction. Anywhere from blurred vision, to tunnel vision, to going blind!!! I read that you are supposed to gradually take it off. Like 1 to 1/2 to 1/4 of one... hmmm!

Anyway... I thought I would share my story and hopefully prevent anyone else from thinking they are having a stroke or bleeding in the brain!!!!!!!!!!!

despite having the patch, i still felt way nauseated coming out of the general anesthesia and they had to give me two doses of phenergan on top of the patch and the zofran they had already given me. thankfully all that worked though and i haven't thrown up or even dry heaved once. hope i didn't just jinx myself. but i have some zofran tabs on hand in case i feel the slightest little throw up notion. thank goodness!