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01-28-2008, 06:44 PM
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| Cub Reporter Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Northwestern Rhode Island
Posts: 58
Weight Statistics 5/30/07 Start Date:
January 2, 2008 Surgery Date:
5' 9" Height: 355 lb Start Weight:
235 lb Current Weight:
160 lb Goal Weight:
120 lb Weight Loss:
75 lb Lb Left to Lose:
33.8028169014 % % Lost:
18 MONTHS ? Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 52.4186095358 BMI Start:
34.6996429322 BMI Current:
23.6252888049 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass  |  while in the hospital, make sure to ask what meds they are giving you I thought I should post my experience for those who will be going into surgery so they will know how important it is to ask what meds they are giving you while in the hospital.... After surgery, my potassium was low so my surgeon ordered IV potassium because I was too nauseous to sip anything. The nurse who hung the 1'st bag told me I would be getting 2 bags total, which I did get during the 1'st and 3'rd shifts the day after surgery. On the 2'nd day after surgery I stopped another nurse from hanging a 3'rd bag of potassium. Today I was telling my sister about it (she's a RN) and she said that the 3'rd bag could have overdosed me and put me into cardiac arrest. I never knew, I just didn't want anymore of it because it burned in the IV.  Thank God I asked what she was giving me.
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01-28-2008, 06:46 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: WADING RIVER (Long Island), NY
Posts: 4,835
Weight Statistics 7/16/07 Start Date:
7/16/07 Surgery Date:
4' 11" Height: 230 lb Start Weight:
139 lb Current Weight:
115 lb Goal Weight:
91 lb Weight Loss:
24 lb Lb Left to Lose:
39.5652173913 % % Lost:
12/31/08 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 46.4492961793 BMI Start:
28.0715311692 BMI Current:
23.2246480896 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass  | Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Yes. I Always Ask Because There Were A Few Mistakes With Me As Well!!!!!!!!!!
__________________ 3/2008 PREG. START WT 144LBS. GOAL WILL HAVE TO WAIT TILL AFTER BABY  230 lbs 7/2007 & 142 lbs 4/2008     |
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01-28-2008, 06:52 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Hudson Falls, NY
Posts: 1,805
Weight Statistics 12-19-07 Start Date:
1-29-08 Surgery Date:
5' 3" Height: 286 lb Start Weight:
184 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
102 lb Weight Loss:
34 lb Lb Left to Lose:
35.6643356643 % % Lost:
eventually Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 50.6570924666 BMI Start:
32.5905769715 BMI Current:
26.5684051398 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass | Scary, isn't it? I'm a RN, but not a floor RN. Our hospital now requires the patients' name band to be 'scanned' with something like a hand held check out thing before they can give them their medications. Thank god you were paying attention!!!!!!!
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01-28-2008, 07:03 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Hawaii
Posts: 3,477
Blog Entries: 8 Weight Statistics 07/23/2007 Start Date:
July 23, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 2" Height: 230 lb Start Weight:
120 lb Current Weight:
125 lb Goal Weight:
110 lb Weight Loss:
-5 lb Lb Left to Lose:
47.8260869565 % % Lost:
June 23 2008 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 42.0629552549 BMI Start:
21.9458896982 BMI Current:
22.860301769 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass  | wow how scarey |
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01-28-2008, 08:44 PM
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| Super Moderator  | Yikes  , that was a close call. Yes, too high a concentration of potassium in IV drips burn your vein, just as some other too high concentration meds to. Potassium overdose is really scary. Good thing you were attentive.
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01-28-2008, 08:50 PM
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| WLS Mentor  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1,234
Blog Entries: 1 Weight Statistics On and off my whole life... Start Date:
November 20, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9" Height: 287 lb Start Weight:
217 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
70 lb Weight Loss:
67 lb Lb Left to Lose:
24.3902439024 % % Lost:
August 2009 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 42.3778617937 BMI Start:
32.0417979416 BMI Current:
22.1487082546 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass  | That was a good call on your part. Good heads up to others.
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01-28-2008, 10:57 PM
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| WLS Guru Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Arizona in the winter - Colorado in the summer
Posts: 394
Weight Statistics about age 12 the first time Start Date:
8/29/2007 Surgery Date:
5' 4" Height: 268 lb Start Weight:
154 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
114 lb Weight Loss:
14 lb Lb Left to Lose:
42.5373134328 % % Lost:
a year from Christmas Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 45.9970703125 BMI Start:
26.4311523438 BMI Current:
24.0283203125 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass | Yes for sure and make sure they put your potassium on a pump - I didn't notice mine wasn't on a pump until the morning after surgery as they were taking the iv out. I was also almost given 3 doses of heparin on my day of surgery - I had been told two for the day and as a nurse I counted lol. A nurse came in at 11pm to give me the 3rd dose and I asked. I felt greatful I was alert enough to ask. Judy
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01-29-2008, 03:35 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: May 2007 Location: minnesota
Posts: 3,453
Weight Statistics july 21, 2007 Start Date:
august 17, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 6" Height: 339 lb Start Weight:
185 lb Current Weight:
160 lb Goal Weight:
154 lb Weight Loss:
25 lb Lb Left to Lose:
45.4277286136 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 54.7100550964 BMI Start:
29.8565197429 BMI Current:
25.8218549128 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass | wow scary, i never thought to ask either, thanks for sharing
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01-30-2008, 01:11 PM
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| WLS Master Guru  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: PA (Near Philly)
Posts: 638
Blog Entries: 1 Weight Statistics March 12, 2008 Surgery Date:
5' 6" Height: 340 lb Start Weight:
251 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
89 lb Weight Loss:
101 lb Lb Left to Lose:
26.1764705882 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 54.8714416896 BMI Start:
40.5080348944 BMI Current:
24.2079889807 BMI Goal:
| I have had Nurses try to give me maintenance meds on top of maintenance meds for my asthma. Give me my advair and then try to hit me up with something like flovent or combivent. And I am due for a regular treatment from respiratory. Or they have me on iv injectable steroids and tried to give me oral as well that happened about ten years ago.. I try hard to keep my eye on what they are giving me.. I didnt know about potassium being poss fatal so I will deff keep my eye on that one..
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