Shortly after the birth of the babe (birth story is coming, I promise), I had another episode of what I'm going to call a brain melt. If you recall back many months ago, I had something that a neurologist at the ER called an "Atypical Migraine." It caused me to leave work, and stay home to gestate and hope it would go away once the baby was born. Since that particular episode, I'd had more than a few dizzy spells, near faintings, limb tingling, "floating head syndrome," and the reason I ended up being admitted into the hospital to induce labor? I got trippy while showering on Thursday morning, and nearly fell out of the tub, and went to the hospital thinking my blood pressure was too low or too high, and I needed to be seen. (Insert birthing here.) Then - just a few moments after birth - I lose my words. Again. I am sitting in the birthing room, talking to my husband and mother-in-law, and I can't get my words out. I am looking at my husband, trying to tell him that I'm feeling poorly, feeling as if I needed to sleep, immediately, and I can't get the words out. He tells me, "Beth, stop it." I say, "Huh?" "Beth, wipe your drool off." I'm now drooling? Good. Lovely. I can't talk, AND I'm drooling. I also feel as if I can fall asleep at the drop of a hat. Then, it DISAPPEARS. Less than a minute later, I'm good. Not one-hundred percent, but I'm alright for just having a baby. After the nursing staff runs in to check that I'm not stroking out - and decided to call a neuro consult for the next day, we are told to stick in the birthing suite for a while until I got my sea-legs back post epidural. So, while I haven't got a freaking clue what is wrong with me, I wanted to post it here while it was still fresh in the memory (which I fear might leave at some point if I'm losing my brain here, kids). This is now two medically documented brain melts since weight loss surgery, and many more mini-melts that I've attributed to "whatever" since surgery. FWIW - I'm "still" anemic, though didn't lose as much blood as expected during birth, and my levels didn't drop as low as they could have, but who knows if it has anything to do with my brain melting. Anyways - I'm just looking for answers here, and I think I need to find out what is wrong with my brain, and I am nearly one hundred percent sure it's related to the weight loss surgery. ::sigh:: More later, baby calls.
Shortly after the birth of the babe (birth story is coming, I promise), I had another episode of what I'm going to call a brain melt. If you recall back many months ago, I had something that a neurologist at the ER called an "Atypical Migraine." It caused me to leave work, and stay home to gestate and hope it would go away once the baby was born. Since that particular episode, I'd had more than a few dizzy spells, near faintings, limb tingling, "floating head syndrome," and the reason I ended up being admitted into the hospital to induce labor? I got trippy while showering on Thursday morning, and nearly fell out of the tub, and went to the hospital thinking my blood pressure was too low or too high, and I needed to be seen. (Insert birthing here.) Then - just a few moments after birth - I lose my words. Again. I am sitting in the birthing room, talking to my husband and mother-in-law, and I can't get my words out. I am looking at my husband, trying to tell him that I'm feeling poorly, feeling as if I needed to sleep, immediately, and I can't get the words out. He tells me, "Beth, stop it." I say, "Huh?" "Beth, wipe your drool off." I'm now drooling? Good. Lovely. I can't talk, AND I'm drooling. I also feel as if I can fall asleep at the drop of a hat. Then, it DISAPPEARS. Less than a minute later, I'm good. Not one-hundred percent, but I'm alright for just having a baby. After the nursing staff runs in to check that I'm not stroking out - and decided to call a neuro consult for the next day, we are told to stick in the birthing suite for a while until I got my sea-legs back post epidural. So, while I haven't got a freaking clue what is wrong with me, I wanted to post it here while it was still fresh in the memory (which I fear might leave at some point if I'm losing my brain here, kids). This is now two medically documented brain melts since weight loss surgery, and many more mini-melts that I've attributed to "whatever" since surgery. FWIW - I'm "still" anemic, though didn't lose as much blood as expected during birth, and my levels didn't drop as low as they could have, but who knows if it has anything to do with my brain melting. Anyways - I'm just looking for answers here, and I think I need to find out what is wrong with my brain, and I am nearly one hundred percent sure it's related to the weight loss surgery. ::sigh:: More later, baby calls.