My Sodium Dropped to 105 In Post Surgery! Posted: 10-01-07 09:51am
Hi.. This is all very new to me..I am a 26
year old art teacher currently in
recovery (3 weeks) after surgery. My
surgery went okay, but in recovery things
went terribly wrong. During my surgery I
was supposed to be injected with a hormone
to make sure that my blood would clot. I
did well, however 3 days after my surgery,
in the hospital, and in nurses care, My
sodium level dropped to the point where I
couldn't move my body, couldn't talk, but
could hear the commotion around me (105).
Doctors were telling my parents that they
thought I had a stroke... and they may not
be able to save me. No one knew what
happened. Finally they figured out that my
sodium level had dropped due to a computer
"glitch" the nurses said that the computer
told them to keep giving me the hormone
that was supposed to be only for surgery.
A similar experience happened to my mom.
She had a massive seizure when her sodium
hit 115.. I was just wondering how bad was
I? Why did I not seize? I have many more
thoughts and questions.. but never knew
this could happen due to low sodium.. and
apparently neither did the nurses!!
