Where did my blood go?
56f, 165cm, 60 kg, non smoker, usually no meds, now lots of pain killers.
Last week Monday I had a THR with general anesthesia. When I woke up I felt really shitty, which continued the next day. Doctors did some tests and found my hemoglobin dropped from 12.8 before the surgery to 7.4 after. They gave me an EC transfusion and slowly I was getting better. Surgeon was not there this day. When he came the next day he said I did not lose much blood during the surgery and there must be something else. This is a very experienced and respected surgeon.
They took stool und urine samples, stool was negative, urine positive but not enough to explain this and they wrote it down as "not explainable blood loss".
Now I am home and wonder what could have happened there.
Any ideas?