Ok so here is what happened… I had to sing at a wedding Saturday and I wanted to look good for it and I have struggled with bulimia in the past and I had been recovering and doing well but I started purging again like a week before the wedding. (yes i know its bad and i am trying to recover) On Saturday I hadn’t eaten anything I just had a couple of glasses of gingerale right before I sang. Then at the wedding reception I had 3 glasses of wine on an empty stomach (I’m on Lorazepam and I’m not supposed to drink any alcohol with it but I forgot.)

Anyways, at the reception I was dancing and then I sat back down at the table and started feeling really dizzy. I had to go to the bathroom and I was so dizzy I couldnt walk on my own and my bf said he could tell something was wrong and he walked me out and when I came out of the bathroom I was even more dizzy and he had me sit down and he kept asking what was wrong and I kept saying I’m just really dizzy.. then I think he left, not sure what happened then, next thing I remember I was lying face down on the floor puking and my bf called 911 and I don’t remember much after that.. I only remember throwing up the one time but my bf tells me I kept throwing up and at one point he said I was throwing up so much and breathing so erratically he wasn’t sure if I was going to keep breathing.

Anyways, we got to the emergency room, I was throwing up for a while and shaking and breathing really hard and fast. I think they said I was hypervenalating. My blood pressure was low, i dont remember exactly what i was, my potassium was 2.7 which they tell me was extremely low and they say I was dehydrated. They gave me something in an iv to stop the vomiting and they gave me tons of potassium then after awhile they sent me home.

I called my doctor for an appointment tho I’m not exactly sure what happened. My bf thinks it a reaction to mixing the alcohol and the lorazepam or he thinks it is alcohol poisoning. I thought that too but after talking to my mom who is a nurse, she says that dehydration and alcohol should have made my potassium level go up, and she says that what happened Saturday night was because of the purging and that drinking the alcohol might have saved my life. Just wondering, cause Idk what happened or why … do you think that is what caused it? Has anything like this ever happened to anyone?
really, nobody has an ideas?

Filed under: Potassium and Being Sick

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