1 Week Post Op - Severe Exhaustion And Rapid Heart Beat

[BioEngineeringChick 27]

Hey All - I had surgery last Monday and I thought that everything was going great. I went home with anti-nausea medicine and hydrocodone. I misunderstood that I was to only take these as needed and took them every 4 hours as was on the prescription bottle. They made me sleep my 1rst week away with hardly ever walking and waking only to drink a Protein drink or Water. When I ran out of medicine Saturday I stopped it all cold turkey. I've since tried to start walking and moving around but a simple trip to the living room has my heart racing like I ran or sprinted. I feel incredibly weak and it takes all the will power I have to get up out of bed. Today in the shower I thought I was going to fall over so I had to get out. When I sat down my heart was racing with over exertion. Before the surgery I was severly overweight but a very active mother of two children under the age of six. I walked daily and had no co-morbidities... good blood pressure, no diabetes, no sleep problems, no depression/anxiety. I feel so overwhelmed and exhausted now that I just sit and cry thinking that I have ruined my life with this surgery. I feel defeated and I wonder if the exhaustion and racing heart will ever go away. I have to start work next week and I don't know how that is possible the way I feel now. We are a single income family and I have no other choice but to go back to work...

Please have any of you experienced this? Does it go away? Suggestions on what will help? Thank you so much!

[iggychic 1,405]

Hey All - I had surgery last Monday and I thought that everything was going great. I went home with anti-nausea medicine and hydrocodone. I misunderstood that I was to only take these as needed and took them every 4 hours as was on the prescription bottle. They made me sleep my 1rst week away with hardly ever walking and waking only to drink a Protein drink or Water. When I ran out of medicine Saturday I stopped it all cold turkey. I've since tried to start walking and moving around but a simple trip to the living room has my heart racing like I ran or sprinted. I feel incredibly weak and it takes all the will power I have to get up out of bed. Today in the shower I thought I was going to fall over so I had to get out. When I sat down my heart was racing with over exertion. Before the surgery I was severly overweight but a very active mother of two children under the age of six. I walked daily and had no co-morbidities... good blood pressure' date=' no diabetes, no sleep problems, no depression/anxiety. I feel so overwhelmed and exhausted now that I just sit and cry thinking that I have ruined my life with this surgery. I feel defeated and I wonder if the exhaustion and racing heart will ever go away. I have to start work next week and I don't know how that is possible the way I feel now. We are a single income family and I have no other choice but to go back to work...

Please have any of you experienced this? Does it go away? Suggestions on what will help? Thank you so much![/quote']

Call your surgeon NOW. It could be the discontinuation of the drugs but it sounds like a leak issue. If you can't get them go to the ER now.

[bigsleeve56 266]

call your doctor.

[mufasas-mom 170]

Please phone your surgeon - as mine told me the first warning signs of things going wrong was a rapid heartrate, even with no fever or any other symptoms. Please call, if it's nothing - then at least you were proactive.

[Katie713 423]

I agree, this doesn't sound normal. You should make contact with your surgeons office ASAP.

[BioEngineeringChick 27]

Thanks all! Turns out I was severly dehydrated so Iam doubling my Water intake