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Detour from Weight Loss

It has been quite awhile since I checked in here. About three weeks after my WLS I started a bout of cluster headaches. I had not had cluster headaches for 18 years and not sure why they started up again. I did some research and my two best guesses are that the weight loss released a large amount of hormones stored in the fat the somehow triggered the headaches or they were caused by using morphine in the hospital. Cluster headaches are headaches that hit in a cluster, mine were hitting about four to five time a day and they are extremely painful, The nickname for cluster headaches is suicide headaches. Anyway i worked with my doctor and used different medications and Oxygen therapy and now they are much better but the strange thing was that during the whole headache ordeal I did not lose any weight. I was not eating much at all and trying to stay on my program although was not exercising at all. Now I feel like I am so far behind were I should be and were everyone else is, I know I shouldn't compare myself to others but s is hard not to. I even stayed away from VST because I was feeling like such a failure. I have lost a couple more pounds since the headaches lessened so trying to take that as a positive sign. Now if I can start exercising I can make up some lost ground.

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PatliPriya

Gastric Sleeve Patients

How are the headaches preventing weight loss??

I go into surgery tomorrow and I'm perplexed to know that it IS IN FACT possible not to lose anything regardless of 80% of your stomach being removed...

please tell me why yu haven't lost anything...or is it you've not lost a huge amount?

kristikay

LAP-BAND Patients

That was the point I don't know why I wasn't losing weight during my cluster headaches. I have lost 33 pounds overall but stalled during that time period.

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