dehydration -- wow!

Thank goodness they do a good job at explaining the signs of dehydration.  I had my first bout of it this morning.  Not fun.

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Yesterday, by bowels started working for the first time after surgery.  I had a lot of yucky diahrea.  When I got on the scales this morning, I had lost 5 lbs overnight.  That should have.been my first clue. 
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I got up this morning, I took my blood pressure meds, my chewable and a dose of pain meds because I felt yucky and my tummy hurt a lot.

I some sugar free custard and started to walk around the house sipping h20.  Within about 5 minutes, I started to feel light headed, nauseous, fatigued and dizzy.  I sat down and had my husband get me more H20 and I just kept sipping.  He didn't like how I looked, so he called Dr. T's office.  He thought for sure we were heading to the hospital.  I slowly kept sipping.  It took about 1/2 for a nurse to get back to me and by that time I was starting to feel better.  She told me that if I didn't continue to feel better that I needed to call them back and most likely go to the ER.  Even though it was hard, I continued to sip and I'm feeling completely better now.

I couldn't believe how hard and fast it hit me.  Lesson #1 of WLS learned.  If you feel nauseous, light-headed and fatigued, keep sipping that H20 even if you don't want to.  You'll be happy you did!

glad you recogized the signs and were able to avoid the ER.  Keep sipping!

Sounds like it could also be your blood pressure meds.  What are you on?  May want to check with your doctor about those also. 

Yes, check your BP meds.  They made me really dizzy because my BP was too low. 

I'm on 50mg 2x of metropolol.  My BP was still running high at the hospital, but it was usually when I was in pain.  I've got an appointment Thursday with my PCP and I'm going to talk about it with them then.  If I have another incident like I did today before then, I'm going to move up my appointment.

Definitely talk to your doctor about the BP meds.  Keep track of your pulse rate and let your doctor know.  I know they told me to not take my meds when my pulse was below a certain range. (I think I was on the same drug).  Good luck

Glad you called the doc!  Gotta be careful with dehydration and those BP meds!  Glad you are feeling better now!  Keep an eye on it!

Yes  dehydration is  one of the things that can get us in trouble early on.   Sip sip sip  is the key   for a  few  weeks anyways.  as things heal you can get a bigger gulp in and that helps.

Your bowels  can be loose  for a while too and that doesnt help either.  Sounds like  you are  on the mend.   take care and keep us posted.

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