heart rate of 10? gulp!

[cookienay 0]

Well, I am 3 weeks out and go for my follow up visit with my surgeon today. After my surgery, during my overnight stay, my heart rate dropped to the 40's in the night. I chalked it up to drugs and my beta blocker. Hospitalist comes in the next day, decreases b-blocker, orders EKG, all is good-right? I go home happy.

So he says today- "what did your primary MD do about this heart rate? You know you basically flatlined during surgery- your heart rate went down to 10" WHAT???!! :teeth_smile: He told me it was a vasovagal reaction (stimulation of the vagus nerve causing severely low heart rate) and I quickly recovered with medications. He also said that any time I get laprascopic surgery to tell them to inflate my ABD very slowly! Well, I guess so. As a nurse, I know vasovagal reactions respond very wellto meds, but I am still thinking it is a good thing I was unconscious at the time. Good to be alive folks!!:drool:

[make33 2]

Whoa--I would say SO!!! That's a shocker, and a good thing to find out about only afterwards!!

Glad you're still here, cookie! :grouphug:

[SuzanneG 1]

Wow, glad you came out of it OK. My heart rate was also in the 40's during my hospital stay and it kind of freaked me out. My daughter is a nurse and I asked her to keep an eye on me when I got home.

I watched my mom go through a major heart attack and open heart surgery, so I'm sensitive to any danger signs of heart trouble. That's the main reason I got the band. I'm hoping to NOT walk in her footsteps. She had gastric bypass after her first heart attack, but I think by then the damage was done.