Dr. Grim, Help!!

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Dear Dr. Grim and all:

Wishing you all a happy new year.

I had sinus surgery(a concha ballosa, bilateral submucus resection, inferior

turbinates, endoscopic sinus surgery, nasal septoplasty)

All this because one of my eye lids is not draining and one attempt at

putting a tube in, didn't work after 6 weeks. My Opht. wanted to do another

surgery and in the meantime, I decided to consult with a ENT to see if there

were any other thing wrong. Long story short, after a cat scan(which the

Opht. never did), the ENT told me that I needed the above surgery or else

any other procedure will only end up in a lot of bleeding and no success.

So I did the surgery last Monday(4 days ago). This was done in an outpatient

surgery center with general anestesia.

I spoke the night before the sugery with the anesthesiologist and told him

of my condition meaning PA - (which I feel he took me lightly) I had told

him no matter what, not to give me labetalol, and norvasc as I have had

disasterous outcomes. He told me that he was sure my bp will remain on the

low side as is the case with all his surgeries.

My bp morning of surgery was 115/60 before surgery. My K was also normal in

the morning.

After surgery, my recovery took about 5 hours(instead of 1 that I was told)

because my bp went up . When I woke up he told me my bp had gone up . He had

given me something for the bp(dont know what, I think he said something like

hydrazine, it wasn't hctz) but it caused me to have palpitaitons and my bp

went up even higher to 190/120, hr to 129 then he gave me (he said they

worked like labetalol). then he injected me with metoprolol which helped a

little to lower my hr.

I was dischaged with a hr of 105-110 and bp of 120/90.

Since then, my bp has been up to 180/120 and is up and down

I am back on the spiro which I am now taking 100mg(I was on 50mgs before

surgery) and all symptoms of shaking sweating and feeling sick is back.

Well, that along with not being able to breath well because of the stitches

in my nose is making me feel quite sick. I am to see the ENT on Mon

afternoon to remove the stiches. Considering all of the team of doctors who

work with me are all idiots who have no idea what aldosteronism is, I dont

want to call any of them for advise and get myself sicker than I am, nor

intend to end up in the ER with worst. Is there anything I can do to get

myself back together?

I did lose quite a lot of blood which I am sure could be the cause of low K

and high bp so I am taking so much foods with K to accommodate.

Is there anything I can do to get better?

Thank you,

Farah

By the way, I also learned that they dont have liquid form aldactone unless

its something that they have to order in advance. so if anyone else if going

to have surgery, need to check on this to make sure you are injected with

the right meds since you can't take pills during surgeries such as mine.