What are the long term health effects of massive blood loss?

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Kaiser sent me home from a biopsy with my liver still bleeding. I lost 7.5 pints of blood. They tell me if I had waited 30 more minutes to get to the hospital, I'd be dead. My abdomen had to be vacuumed out and my liver cauterized. Since the incident, I've developed Diabetes, with no family history, and High blood pressure. Before the procedure, I had no health problems, except for a few extra pounds that I was carrying. They tell me that a normal size person would have died from this amount of blood loss, but because I'm a larger guy, it saved my life, because I carry more than the average 12 pints. Can anyone tell me if I have any other effects to look forward to ?

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Wow - good for you for getting to the hospital on time. What was the liver biopsy for? Livers are tricky organs - they bleed like stink because of their blood supply. I hope you've fully recovered.

I have never heard of long term complications from massive blood loss. Of course, if you lose so much blood that you lose the ability to provide essential organs with oxygen you may lose consciousness, and develop multiple organ failure. If that happened, I presume you've recovered since you're sitting here typing. Obviously your brain is working! But how is your kidney function? And how's your liver doing?

The only way I can reason out a connection between your newly diagnosed diabetes and your blood loss is this - you would have had to lose so much blood that your pancreas infarcted (went without oxygen so long it, or a part of it, died). If that actually happened, you would most likely have symptoms other than diabetes, since the pancreas controls a lot of endocrine/exocrine functions. Also, if that's what happened - you would be similar to a type 1 diabetic, rather than the type 2 diabetes that most people who get diabetes later in life have.

I cannot reason out a way that high blood pressure is connected to losing a lot of blood.

I don't know what you mean when you say you are a "larger guy." But I do know that many people have diabetes and high blood pressure and don't know it. And that people who are overweight have this problem in much higher frequency that people who have a healthy body weight for height. Is it possible you had both these diseases, or were considered borderline for these diseases, and then the recent health problems and stress that comes with it tipped you over into the full blown disease?

Regardless, I expect that you won't have long term complications from the blood loss. Good luck.

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i have a boyfriend who is the same, he doesn't open up and bottles it open till he snaps and cries for no apprant reason. i also have alot of experience with loss which he seams to be suffering with. 4 people i was close to died within a space of 2 years, one in particular was like a father to me and i had to witness him die, as he had a heart attack when i was young and i saw it. it left me very scarred and even today i burst out crying about it randomly. grief is a strange thing but its something that has to be dealt with personally, it cannot be helped, only comforted by a loved one being there and gets better with time. it seams he has told you an awful lot about it which says a lot about your relationship to share such a troubling past. therapy can be a waste of money if the person actually doesn't want to talk, trust me, my boyfriend left after a few weeks because he couldn't do it. it is better to talk to someone like a family member, or maybe an online counselling site as thats free and anonymous and it can be easier not knowing the person as their problems won't emotionally effect them. as for you, i think you need to comfort each other, because being there to listen sometimes is enough.

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the health effects of massive blood loss are the following:dizzyness,weakness,sight loss,losing conciensness,and death if u lose alot.

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mmm. Lot of them out there. I'll pick alcohol. I dated an alcoholic for 2 yrs. and have seen first hand how evil it is. I agree with the others who said drugs too.

Answer 7

THAT'S ONE INCREDIBLE STORY. I THINK I WOULD BE TALKING TO LAWYER MAN AND FAST. I WOULDN'T CARE WANT PAPER I SIGNED BEFORE THIS PROCEDURE, WHO EVER DID THAT TO YOU WAS INCOMPETENT . BLOOD LOSS LIKE THAT COULD EFFECT ALL OF YOUR ORGANS. THE BRAIN FOR ONE (MEMORY LOSS) AND EYE SIGHT .