I Lost 75 lbs Then Ended Up In The ER

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Apparently, losing 75 pounds can change more than just your appearance. In my case, it may have literally shifted my liver inside my body to aggravate cysts that were already there in my liver that doctors were watching.

[00:00:28]Welcome or welcome back. My name is Lynn. I'm 56 years old. I'm a wife and mother of one high schooler who's going to be a junior and one high school graduate who just graduated last week.

[00:00:42]I've been on Zepbound 2.5 milligrams injector pen since August 4th of 2025 and I've lost over 75 pounds so far.

[00:00:53]I thought it may be GLP1 related. I thought it may be a new side effect from Zupbound.

[00:01:02]But on Tuesday morning after I worked out, I did a long walk. I got dressed and I was going to go to lunch and I started getting a pain in my stomach above the belly button in the center.

[00:01:20]And it wasn't constant. It was only when I bent over. So like if I'm just sitting, it was fine. If I bend back on Tuesday, it was much worse. So it was like it would start hurting right about here. And I didn't know what it was. I was like, did I pull something? But I hadn't even lifted any heavy weights since like last week on a Thursday or Friday. So I'm like, I don't know what it is. So I went through lunch and I was okay and everything. I could eat, I, you know, could move. I could walk. I can do everything except when I went into a position of a crunch, a squish, a compression, anything that compressed like around the stomach area and the belly button area. So, I was like, "Okay." So, then I went home and it still was there when I did that, but I was fine otherwise. I had no pains, no other discomfort.

[00:02:19]And so I did a bowel movement bathroom business in the afternoon. So I knew it wasn't constipation.

[00:02:27]And at dinner I was sitting again at the out at the booth and you know reaching just reaching for like a drink was like painful. So I'm like I have to go get this checked out. So our go-to place is the urgent care which is right by our house. So, I went there, got in like 10 minutes, and was disappointed because she said, "You better get some blood tests. You got to get a CT scan. You got to do this, get an ultrasound, all this stuff, but you can't do it here because it's too late." Because it was like, you know, 7 o'clock, 6 or 7 o'clock. So, I'm like, she's like, "Go to the ER right now." And then she worried me because I'm like, "Oh my gosh, I have to go right now. Can I wait until tomorrow morning? Nope. Go right now. I'm like, so I did, but I was thinking, okay, there was nobody at the urgent care.

[00:03:23]Maybe I'll be lucky and there will be nobody at the ER. So, I went by myself thinking, oh, I'll be there, you know, at least the two hours that you're always there. Maybe even a few hours longer. Who knows? So, I went I walk in and there's like 50 people waiting.

[00:03:40]So, the only good part, well, there wasn't any good parts, but the only part was that while I was waiting to get back into the actual ER, they kept um calling me for questions and to fill out stuff and tests. So, like they first called me after like 20 minutes or so to go get like blood pressure, temperature, an EKG in a little room off to the side. um and get a urine sample. So, I did all that.

[00:04:13]Then I went back to the waiting room and waited. Then I went to talk to somebody else and they filled in a lot of stuff on the computer. Then I went back. Then I got called for a x-ray. So they wanted to check my since the pain was upper abdominal like above the belly button, they wanted to make sure everything was good with my um heart and lungs. So I had to get a x-ray of my chest. So they took me back for that then put me back in the waiting room. Then finally I got a room around 9:00. So I waited a little over two hours about two and a half hours for a room. Got into the room and then they came and did an ultrasound.

[00:04:54]They came and took me to a CT with contrast.

[00:04:58]So that was fun. Not really. And took blood. Let's see if I still have my Oh, it doesn't look too bad. I guess I did a good job. Um, and that was it. So, then I was waiting. The waiting for the test results was the worst part. Hours and hours and hours. So they said finally one of the doctors came back and said due to the CT or we're still waiting on the CT but because of the ultrasound we think it might be your gallbladder.

[00:05:36]There are a couple gallstones in there might be causing the problem even though gallbladder is over further to the right. It's like upper right but they said the pain could be like traveling over there. So I'm like okay but we want to keep you overnight. Oh my gosh. I was like so shocked because you have to talk to the surgeon in the morning because if they think and know that it's your gallbladder then we they're going to take it out tomorrow morning. I'm like what? Oh my gosh. So I called my husband and my husband and my daughter brought stuff for me for overnight, my glasses and contact solution and all that stuff.

[00:06:12]And we just sat there and waited another two hours and they stayed because we thought we'd get the results by then.

[00:06:19]And I still didn't get the results. And then finally, right before they were ready to leave at like 1:00 in the morning, they came in with the results from the CT with contrast and said, "Okay, we're not sure it's the gallbladder, but we want you to talk to the surgeon and we're going to, you know, keep you overnight and all this stuff." So, I'm like, "Fine." So, my husband and daughter left and went home.

[00:06:43]And then I finally made up made it up to my room at about 3:00 in the morning.

[00:06:50]So, mind you, I started at about 7 and I got a room at 3 in the morning.

[00:06:58]So, needless to say, I got two hours of sleep because at 5:30 they came in and started taking another thing of blood and doing vitals and stuff. All I heard Oh, when I got hooked up to an IV, they put me on um the so you know the I forgot what it's called, the sodium.

[00:07:20]It's just like a to keep you hydrated.

[00:07:22]And because I couldn't eat anything, they didn't want me eating or drinking anything, not even water. So, I had to have an IV so I wouldn't get dehydrated more than I, you know, was already. And um they threw me on an antibiotic just in case there's some kind of inflammation and infection. So I'm like, "Okay."

[00:07:42]So I got up at like 5:30 and I stayed up and I was just so tired. I tried to doze off here and there, but they kept coming in to do things or change things. Um my blood work came back and my potassium was really low, so they gave me some potassium. So, she had hooked that up and it went in. And in between all that, then the surgeon came at 7:00 in the morning, which I was happy he came on time or, you know, at first thing and he said, "I'm thinking it may not be the gallbladder, it may be the liver." I'm like, "Really?" and he said we're going to do one more test and this is a hepa hepailiary hippoiliary imaging. So what they did was shoot me through with another contrast or liquid and it goes directly from or in and goes through the gall bladder, the liver, the gallbladder and the bowels to see if there's any obstruction. It's supposed to flow through so they can see in like a bright light and stuff. And so I was like, "Okay." Okay. And then they said the test takes an hour and I have to lay on my back for an hour in in a machine.

[00:09:04]I'm like, "Okay." So, I did all that and then we waited more like three hours for that test results because I had that done about 10:00 and then so we're still waiting like at 1. Meanwhile, my husband and my son come and they're waiting. And then my daughter comes and we finally get the results after all those hours and it said it's not any of that because there's no blockage. So, they're not sure what it is, but it might be the liver to go talk to a liver specialist.

[00:09:39]Now, I had a liver specialist from last year. Okay. Starting last year in about uh February or March, I went to my PCP, regular physician, and she wanted to put me on cholesterol medicine. I said, "No, because I'm losing weight. I'm, you know, by myself. I was losing weight, and I don't want to go on it." And well, she said, "Well, I'm going to check your heart because we have a heart test. It's a heart scan. And if your numbers come back good, I won't have to put you on the statins. that means your heart is good and you're not going to be um susceptible to heart attacks and stuff and so the high cholesterol you'll still can try and lose weight and do all this stuff but I don't need to put you on the statin then I was like okay I'll do it so I did the heart scan that came back with a little piece of other information because it took more than just the heart it got like part of a lung so in the lung it showed two cysts I was like Oh my gosh, what what's going on? So then when we went over the results, she said, "Oh, let's go get a um CT of your chest for the lungs and see what's going on in there." So when they I went back for another test last year and got the lungs, but then that caught part of the abdomen. Okay. So now I they saw the two little cysts. there were three and four millimeters in the um in the lungs but they said you know in the radiology report and she said it's just watch and see they were non-calcified non you know should be non-cancerous and just check next year and maybe um just make sure they didn't grow. So I'm due for another one this year so I have to make an appointment. Then the test also caught part of the abdomen which caught my liver which is enlarged. It was enlarged last year and I had a peach-sized cyst in there plus bunch of other cysts. I have no idea how I got that. Okay. So, and it caught the gallstones. I have two gallstones in my gallbladder.

[00:11:54]So after all that then I had an ultrasound of the abdomen and that confirmed all that. So this was all last year before I even started GLP-1. So those you know who say oh it's all caused by the GLP-1 it's not. I had it all before. Okay. So then I started the medicine because I wanted to lose weight to become healthier and to get all my numbers down and to get my cholesterol down and you know just become healthy. So, fast forward to now, I got released from the hospital, came home, and I was still in a little pain and stuff, but only when I bent. So, I just chose not to bend. And the next day, I had a video call with my liver specialist that I saw last year who said, "Just wait. We don't want to do anything yet, and they're not causing any problems, so we'll just watch it and see." Well, now it looks like they're causing problems. So, it looks like because of the weight I lost and the visceral fat I lost, I started at 21 visceral fat back in August and now I'm at 17 and I lost 75 pounds. It shifted the liver, but it made the liver smaller. And now these scans that I had, the exact same ones that I had last year and this year, before last year, I had an enlarged liver. now it's a normalsized liver. So that was such great news and she came to the conclusion after looking at all the scans she's connected with the same hospital and everything so she could see all the scans the ultrasound and everything and compare it to last year's and everything and she con came to the conclusion that my liver shifted enough where now when I bend it's hitting either the big cyst or some of the smaller cysts and that's what's causing me pain.

[00:13:48]So her pregnant or her directions were to deal with the pain and I could take you know ibuprofen or acetaminophen and come back after I lose all the weight I want to lose and then she will take another you know we'll take more tests and look to see if she can drain if it's the big cysts or if it's the little cysts you know try and get rid of some of them so I won't be in pain anymore. So that's where we are right now. But after all of this, none of it was caused by zapbound and well indirectly because this is now caused because I lost weight in the visceral fat. So I did all this good stuff and then got a side effect from that. But I will take it because I'm so much h healthier and happier now and I can deal with this little amount of pain and not bend over that much. So, put in the comments below if you had any side effects or anything that you thought may be a GLP1 or your medicine but turned out to be something completely different because that may help other people. And please let me know if you ever had anything like this where you had a bending over pain and you know it might be something else in there that's going on and not the medicine and you might need to get checked out too. If you found this video helpful and you liked it, please like and subscribe below and hit the bell and hit all so you'll be notified when I upload other videos.

[00:15:26]Make sure you listen to your bodies because ever since I started this medicine, I've come in tuned with my body and the way it works and the way it feels and I've like gotten to know my body again after all these years. And so I listen when there's something wrong or if I don't feel good or I take a, you know, break when I'm working too hard or exercise too much. And so please just listen to your body and if you find something wrong or you know you have something, go get it checked out. Thank you for listening to me today. Thank you for joining me.

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