Bruising easily?

Hey everyone!

 

I am 3 weeks, 3 days post op.  I am down 25 pounds and have lost 15 inches over my whole body and for the most part, am starting to really adjust to everything and am pleased with my surgery.  

However, in the past few days, I have started to get these huge bruises all over me.  I have 2 on my left shin, a huge one on my right shin, one on my arm and I just noticed one tonight, OF ALL PLACE, just below my belly button on my chub roll!!!

WTH is going on here?  Am I missing something?  I am taking my Prevacid every morning and my Flintstones Complete every morning and every night just like Dr. Boe said to.  I am getting just about all my 54 g of daily protein in... I can't tolerate shakes at all and just started soft foods so I am usually in the 40s with no problem due to a love of flaked chicken and finely diced shrimp.  I am putting in way more than the 64 oz of fluids (I am usually around 85-100 a day) of water and decaf iced tea. I also have 8 oz of fresh squeezed OJ every morning (God bless Wegmans!!!) and am walking, stepping on my Wii Fit and doing some cardio boxing and hula hooping on the Wii too most days, plus I walk all over campus for work.

Is this normal?  Am I lacking in something?  Should I call Barix???

 

Ideas?

chances are it's iron deficiency.  I was having the same problem a little while ago and when I called my surgeon found out that I wasn't taking the recommended dose of iron.  She told me to add another pill.  Check with Dr. Boe to see how much you should be taking.  

I am currently bruised up, but that's from the zip line.. not unexplainable like it was before.

Good luck and keep up the great work getting all your stuff in!

Congratulations on your successing!  It's a powerfully awesome journey.  I would definitely call Dr. Boe.  He is my doc and I LOVE him, he's wonderful and will take good care of you when you need him.  Call him today and see what he thinks.  And you're doing a FABULOUS job, keep it up and life will continue to evolve into a beautiful new way of being for you.

I have the same problem and was told to see a hemotologist? Dr P said I didn't have to take the iron that my regular tests bloodwork was fine so I have to check back with a cardiologist also. If I go bump or boom boom or opps I either bleed easier or bruise all colors of the rainbow. Looks like I was chewed on?  Weird. I would call Barix just to touch base.

Actually, bruising is more indicative of low levels of Vitamin K-1. Vitamin C also helps build cell walls in our body so if you are bruising it's possible you are lacking in that too.

As an aside, I'm appalled that Drs suggest people take Flintsone vitamins for their supplements and think they are helping the patient. *sighs*

Thanks to all for the speedy replies!

 

I just called Barix and Dr. Boe wants me to start on the giant pile of vitamins you start at 6 weeks NOW.  So I am off to Trader Joes to get Vit B complex, Calcium with Vitamin D and 500 mg of Vit C, along with my Flintstones.

 

Hopefully that does the trick.  In the meantime, I just gave myself a healthy wallop on my inner right forearm trying to open a bottle of sugar-free Log Cabin syrup.  It's already blue.

 

I am such a klutz!

 

Thanks again to all!