Not feeling the best

Tuesday I did some community service and painted fences at the local Ronald McDonald house.  I picked up water when I started and drank water the whole time.  I got over heated and dehydrated anyway.  I just couldn't take in water fast enough.  I probably needed electrolytes too.

I got a terrible headache and didn't go back to work.  I felt better when I woke up on Wednesday, but by noon was spending more time in the bathroom than at my desk and I went home.  I made it through work on Thursday, but left right on time.  I was feeling draggy and fatigued. 

I took my blood pressure on Thursday and Friday morning.  I keep a BP monitor on my night stand and I take my BP before bed when I think about it.  Before WLS, I was keeping an eye on it so it didn't get too high.  DH and I thought it was very low so I made an appointment with my PCP.  The numbers in the office were normal, and she discounted my home readings as my monitor.  My WLS Dr does labs at 6 and 12 months so my PCP sent me off to get some blood drawn (results due back today). 

I spent the weekend laying around not doing much.  I significantly increased my protein intake to make sure I was getting 100+ grams. I take my multivitamin 2 times a day.  Calcium 3 times a day.  Iron every day. B-12 5/7 days per week.  D3 twice a day.  Probiotic daily.  I feel better today.  The sense of fatigue is there, but not like last week. 

I thought I'd ask the experienced ones.  Do you think it was just dehydration and it is taking me longer to recover or is there something else going on here?  This was my first "what is going on here" moment since surgery and I don't like it.  In my mind I'm supposed to be strong as an ox, not weak and whiny. 

Kay

I have not experienced this, so I do not know what it could be but glad you are going to your doctors!  Good luck, and keep us posted!  Hope you feel back to normal soon!

sorry, Kay!  don't have any answers for you but i hope you feel better really soon!!

Kay - I don't know what it is, but I've had a LOT of dizzy spells this year, and I know its dehydration with me (unless low iron causes this too...).  I find when I eat and hydrate then I feel better.  Just had it awhile ago too outside and I had just drank an entire glass of ice tea. 

Hopefully your labs will be good and it is just dehydration - we have to be SO careful about this.  I do think it affects some of us more than others, but like I said - last year I didn't have this issue nearly as much.

I hope you're feeling better, Kay. Are they going to take a look at potassium?

--gina

I'm not sure which test she ordered.  I know she ordered a vitamin D check, but I'm not sure about the rest.  My mind was not in a place where I thought to ask.  It know it is silly, but I don't always think straight when I'm not feeling well.  Only 4 vials of blood this time. 

Potassium has crossed my mind.  I've been very steady about running liquids through my system.  I have to wonder if the water combined with the malabsorption might be flushing some nutrients. 

I'm thinking I should supplement Potassium for a while and see if it helps.  It is so brutally hot here.  I sweat just walking to my bus.  My friends keep  saying "eat bananas".  I just say "Good idea!" while I'm thinking "hell, no.  Too much sugar." 

I'm going hiking in Yellowstone this weekend.  I'll need to get some Potassium soon. On the plus side, it will be much cooler than south Texas, and I will be with my sister and sister-in-law, both doctors.  Nothing like bringing your emergency medical team with you. 

My PCP is a lap-band patient.  She lost 60 pounds, but has been eating her way around it.  She's very interested in my RNY and how I'm doing.  And she knows where I'm coming from and is very empathetic.  Her office called to check on me, but the lab results weren't back yet. 

I'm feeling much better.  Thank you and everyone for your concern. 

Kay

Let us know what the tests say!!

(((HUGS)))

Hope you are feeling better!

 I  think Ure puting Ur  body through the necessary  sauna - detoxification  -  sweating years of accumulated toxins out  process Kay  

and yes it DOES  make U feel like ..well ...  garbage.  VERY  temporarily .

I really commend U for thoughing  it out though ( and when things get too rough .. turn on the air  conditioning !  )   its a quick fix..  or take a cold   shower , get Ur head wet and lower Ur internal  body temperature to turn the internal furnace down ...  


U MAY  be dehydrated ...  when i feel weak and / or nauseous or just "not right  " fora few days  its almost always what is ailing me .   I  make myself drink a  half gallon of cool water and  few hours later im  magically back to my energetic self .