shannon6

Well, was doing well. had it on March 22. But in last 3 days have gotten weak, muscles hurt really bad, can hardly walk! Assume its a protein deficiency. Going for lab work today if I can walk from the car to the Dr. office. This is scary. I may not have followed the plan totally right, but thought I had been drinking enough of the shakes..........this is reallly terrible! I wonder how long I will feel like and be a virtual invalid!

Got blood clot, nearly died. Lots of damage.....been on back for 8 days. Horrible pain.................Sorry I decided to have this done. I am a mess!

I am being admitted to hospital today. white cell count is up. You'd have thought needing a wheel chair to get form my car to her office yesterday and my then verbally stating that I can barely walk, in case, the point was unclear, might have gotten some reaction, but no. So now they have a room for me and it turns out if has nothing to do with anything i did or did not do. I am very displeased and plan to get a second opinion from a doc outside of my doc's pratice. They seemed kind fo cavalier when I had the procedure as if it was not big deal, told me to start exericsing 45 minutes a day within a few days of surgery, etc.....I made a mental note about how that came across and will keep it in mind if they underplay this episode. I am so weak and so exhausted............must be systemic infection......sure hope i can be made better............... Thanks! Off to hospital.

My care team does not seem very concerned which has me annoyed. I double checked the protein amounts I am taking in and it's over 60 grams. I am 5'10 and somewhat muscular-was in decent condition prior to band even though I was obese.....but this is so debilitating. It's possible i am not drinking enough, but not by an amount enough to cause this, I wouldn't think! If I thought the ER could have done anything for me I would have gone yesterday, but if it's metabolic, I didn't see what they could do other than blood studies which I hope to hear back on today. I tell you what, going from a stong and very independent person to not being able to walk to the dr's office is very disturbing! I see the surgeon tomorrow morning to have staples out and I will impress upon him how serious I feel this is......I am so exhausted....thanks for your support, out there! So far the loss of 13 pounds has not :sleep:been worth this...but we shall see.