Re: Post Op dizziness figured it out.
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Apr 29 19:02:48 2009
glad you feel better! In my experience, the dizziness would be better
than the nausea...as much as that stinks. I don't remember being dizzy,
and I think I had the same patch.
Thanks for letting us know
At Wed, 29 Apr 2009, GV wrote:
>
>At Sun, 19 Apr 2009, GV wrote:
>>
>>I had laproscopic excision surgery on the 14th last week. I did well in
>>the hospital but when I got home and during the drive home I have been
>>having dizzy spells and feeling very lighheaded. I have been eating
>>well and only taking tylenol for the last 2 days. is this normal? Or is
>>there anything i can do about it? I'am usually not a dizzy lite headed
>>type of person. I'am wonderring if it is a side effect from the meds or
>>just the surgery it's self. I had a cyst removed from my ovary and
>>removal of endo in the culdasac and intestine. Any advice would be
>>great.
>
>OK this is a bit late but I did figure out what was wrong with me. Also
>the reason I posted online was becuase I could not get in touch with my
>Dr. on sunday. However I agree that taling directly with your doctor
>is the best idea. Anyways I looked into the meds I had taken and
>through some research foung out that it was a side effect from the
>Transderm Scopamine ear patch that I had been given for nuasea. When i
>took it of I had severe withdrawels and constant dizziness. Not all
>people have these side effects but I did and it really sucked. I was
>not even able to stand up for more than 3 minutes and had no ability to
>concentrate. After 4 days it went away and I did get in touvh with my
>doctor on monday, he had some advice but mostly i just had to wait it
>out. Just wanted to follow up and thank you to everyone for the
>replies.
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