6 days out from slip band revision surgery and having awful time with hypoglycemia

dacer123
on 3/31/12 12:27 am - MI
I had my surgery this past Monday (today is Saturday) for a slipped lap band.  My band had been slipped for a long time but wasn't showing very well on testing.  Anyway, I'm really having a hard time with basically protein drinks and broth.  I was told to drink some milk when I get hypoglycemic and to chew a glucose tablet.  As of two days ago, I feel like I'm in a constant state of hypoglycemia with weakness, sweating, and dizziness.  I just finally added some peanut butter to my protein drink in the blender with milk so hopefully that will bring me out of it for the morning.  As of this Monday (two days away) I get to have thinned oatmeal or maltomeal, ricotta cheese, cottage cheese, pureed soups (per nutritionist: creamed soups pureed), and thinned corn grits.  I'm seriously considering moving on to that phase today, two days early, as I know the little bit of carbs will help my hypoglycemia.  Does anyone have any insights that might help me?

Six years ago when I had my original band, which was put in my another facility/doctor, I felt the exact same way and didn't pull out of it until i went on to pureed food.  I specifically remember pureeing a can of campbells vegetable soup (can't remember if it was vegetable beef though) and I immediatelly felt better with more energy.  I'm also so sick of all the sweet protein drinks.

Lisaizme
on 3/31/12 7:57 am - TX
 I'm so sorry you're not feeling well.  I understand the temptation to advance your diet, but I really wouldn't do it.. especially since you're recovering from a slip repair.. without calling your doctor and getting permission first.

I hope the pb helped (and I wouldn't have done that either w/o calling, but that's just me).

Hang in there.
Lisa
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Reinhold Niebuhr

                    
dacer123
on 3/31/12 11:01 am - MI

Thank you Lisa.  I did end up calling the doctor on call at the hospital since the clinic doesn't actually have an afterhours person to talk to.  She told me to put sugar on my tongue, but I told her I'm already taking glucose pills which are only helping for about an hour, so she told me to put some peanut butter in my smoothies and make sure it gets blended really well.  Thats what I had actually done this morning so I guess I didn't do anything bad.  Now my problem is that everything is so darn sweet I feel like I'm on the verge of screaming if I have one more sweet smoothy.  I'm trying to hold out until Monday but it sure is hard.  I'm in that phase right now of wishing I would have told them to just take the darn thing out.
 

(deactivated member)
on 4/1/12 5:01 am - Mexico
On March 31, 2012 at 7:27 AM Pacific Time, dacer123 wrote:
I had my surgery this past Monday (today is Saturday) for a slipped lap band.  My band had been slipped for a long time but wasn't showing very well on testing.  Anyway, I'm really having a hard time with basically protein drinks and broth.  I was told to drink some milk when I get hypoglycemic and to chew a glucose tablet.  As of two days ago, I feel like I'm in a constant state of hypoglycemia with weakness, sweating, and dizziness.  I just finally added some peanut butter to my protein drink in the blender with milk so hopefully that will bring me out of it for the morning.  As of this Monday (two days away) I get to have thinned oatmeal or maltomeal, ricotta cheese, cottage cheese, pureed soups (per nutritionist: creamed soups pureed), and thinned corn grits.  I'm seriously considering moving on to that phase today, two days early, as I know the little bit of carbs will help my hypoglycemia.  Does anyone have any insights that might help me?

Six years ago when I had my original band, which was put in my another facility/doctor, I felt the exact same way and didn't pull out of it until i went on to pureed food.  I specifically remember pureeing a can of campbells vegetable soup (can't remember if it was vegetable beef though) and I immediatelly felt better with more energy.  I'm also so sick of all the sweet protein drinks.
 
Have you tried something like Propel water?  It has just enough sugar to bring your blood sugar up without the spikes causing more hypoglycemia.


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