Yesterday, I woke up with a slight case of vertigo. I have never had it before and didn't know if that was what it was, but I rolled over in bed and THE ROOM STARTED SPINNING! I waited for it to pass and it did. I got up and felt a little dizzy, but basically it was over. This morning another story altogether! The spinning started the same way, but then the more I did, the worse it got until finally I was vomiting. I waited a while and tried to get up one more time and immediate vomiting!
I call my PCP and they had me come in, checked my blood pressure (a little higher than normal) drew blood, did an EKG and prescribed an anti-nausea med and a med for dizziness. They said to start with the anti-nausea med as that alone might take away the dizziness. I definitely don't feel nauseous now, but still dizzy, so I WILL take the dizziness med.
My question is I've heard of dizziness after VSG, but really always seems to be related to lack of food and dehydration neither of which are the case with me. Is there any relation to VSG and Vertigo that anyone knows of? The PCP didn't know of any...but doctors are notoriously uninformed about gastric surgery, so I thought I'd ask the "experts".
Other than that, I LOVE my sleeve and am thankful every day for it.
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