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Please please please follow doctors orders about moving post op to reduce chance of blood clots.

NON Band related. Woman at my company first day back from foot surgery collapsed at work and died from a blood clot. She was 33.

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OMG!!

So scary and sad :(

Thanks for the post

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Crazy. I was so paranoid about this that I set my cell alarm for every hour and was up walking for 10 minutes. I was sleepy but I knew I needed to move. I was terrified.

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About 2 weeks post op, I could barely walk cuz my leg was swollen and hurt really, really badly. I remember talking to my mom about 1,000 miles away and her telling me to go to the ER. I didn't, I sufferred thru it, thinking for a mili second that it might be a clot. Took a pain pill and went to bed and by morning, it was fine. No clue what it was, but it did scare me (obviously not enuf to take me to the ER -I have to be truly dying to go to the ER).

Thats too bad. And it does have to do with the lapband - surgery at least!

Marci

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I'm so very sorry to hear that. How heartbreaking.

My coworker got a blood clot in her lung after getting the lapband last year. Luckily she's fine, but it really made me make sure I walked walked walked after my surgery.

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