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I'm supposed to be banded on 7/20/12. Went and had my pre-op testing done on Monday, no problem. Went to my pre-op appointment with my surgeon to find out I had a abnormal EKG and a UTI. Had no clue about that. So now this need to be taken care of before I get medical clearance. Did this happen to any of you?

Your input is greatly appreciated!!

Stephanie

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The day I went in for surgery the nurse was like did you know you had a UTI... I said no!!!! they put me on a bag of antibiotics and sent me home with a prescription antibiotic to finish!!

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I was banded on July 10. Went for pretest was told I had an abnormal ekg. Went two days later and had stress test everything was fine. They said next ekg would probably be abnormal to

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I also had an abnormal EKG and had to have a stress test and echocardiogram in order to get clearance for surgery. Both tests came back normal and I had surgery as scheduled. Apparently, it's quite common to have an abnormal EKG.

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HI! Having surgery on July 24, 2012. My regular MD did my first EKG at her office and it came back abnormal, I had to have a Cardio clearance also so we had him repeat it and it came back normal. Good Luck with everything :)

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The day I went in for surgery the nurse was like did you know you had a UTI... I said no!!!! they put me on a bag of antibiotics and sent me home with a prescription antibiotic to finish!!

Did u have the surgery that day or did they delay due to the uti?

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I had an abnormal EKG, then and abnormal PET (cardiac stress) test, which then lead to a heart catheter... in the end I received the "ALL CLEAR" and had lap band surgery but WHEW that was a lot of extra testing ~ good luck ~

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