sketcher709

Is your blood sugar normal? Were you type 2 before the surgery? It’s hard to control cravings with these issues unless you are very careful about controlling carbs.

Does the bariatric center you used have a post surgery support group? Can you schedule appointments to be followed with the dietician? Get yourself support especially from people who will help hold you accountable to yourself. I did not do this stuff the first time and regained. Now I’m getting ready for a revision and in hindsight I see what I should have done.

I know this thread is several weeks old and hopefully OP is feeling better by now
I had left side pain for about 3 weeks that made it difficult to get up from my chair or bend to tie my shoes. It was burning and also constantly felt like I had a huge cramp in my side. I had to put pressure on my side in that area to stand up or bend over. Finally one day, I was getting up from my recliner and used my abdominal muscles to do so and felt this huge, sharp twang in the spot where I would have the cramp. Viola, burning and crampy feeling gone, never to return. I think they stitch something to your abdominal wall with a stitch that eventually dissolves and 'let's go' or I had an adhesion that broke free or something along those lines.

It should get better but as someone already pointed out this is probably the cursed head hunger as there is no way on a ketogenic diet you will crave carbs. I am one week out and I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't love some sweets myself but I am certain it is only because I can not ahve them as I was not much of a sweets person before.
In the past, when I did Atkins (high fat and Protein, low carbs) my carb cravings were totally under control. I think the fat helped and we are missing the fat in this diet. But when I allowed myself a 'cheat' that was it, off the wagon I went.
I second the idea of considering a therapist. If nothing else, everyone can benefit from one hour a week where someone has to sit and listen to you!

I was a little moody the first few weeks but then came this amazing energy and motivation. I'm not sure if I just feel better because my blood sugar is lower or what but I'll take it!

I was a little moody the first few weeks but then came this amazing energy and motivation. I'm not sure if I just feel better because my blood sugar is lower or what but I'll take it!

I was a little moody the first few weeks but then came this amazing energy and motivation. I'm not sure if I just feel better because my blood sugar is lower or what but I'll take it!

No, that wasn't what I said. What I was referring to was that a patient comes up positive for a drug that is not on their Dept of Justice report. We do make exceptions to the "all controlled substances from us" rule for psychotherapeutic medications.
I wasn't trying to give every protocol we have as that would take a novel.
As long as we're here, I'll say we're not treating people like criminals. We're trying to keep them alive. For instance, we recently found that we were prescribing Norco to a patient and they went and got Tylenol with codeine from someone else. What's the problem with that? Norco has Tylenol in it and now they're double-dosing on Tylenol which can seriously harm their liver.
My boss is well aware that long-term use of opioids can make pain syndromes worse. We try to move people to agonist-antagonist drugs when appropriate, sooner rather than later.
@@Huggies123 and also while we're here, do you get this problem resolved?

Wow. So a P-doc diagnoses a patient with ADHD and wants them on Adderall but is not allowed to prescribe it? So the patient with the pain doc has to go to the pain doc and convince them to gov them Adderall even though it was not the pain doc who diagnosed the disorder? Help me understand this. Seems bizarre to me....but I guess it is our system to treat pain patients like criminals and drug seekers. I have a friend who just came off fentanyl after 13 years as it was causing her pain to be exacerbated. She is lucky in that while her body was physically dependent on it, she was not addicted to it. I've seen how she is treated if she goes to the ER for anything, even if it is not something that would require any pain management. That in itself is criminal.

I had surgery on the 16th as well and I am very upset to be deprived of the gremlin in my belly but I also have the chipmunk cheeks several times a day! I also crack myself up holding it - my spouse thinks I've lost it. I feel pretty great overall...well except for that red hot poker stabbing near my main incision. Wait, maybe that's the gremlin and he is only equipped with the poker and forgot the feather. just my luck.

I had surgery on the 16th as well and I am very upset to be deprived of the gremlin in my belly but I also have the chipmunk cheeks several times a day! I also crack myself up holding it - my spouse thinks I've lost it. I feel pretty great overall...well except for that red hot poker stabbing near my main incision. Wait, maybe that's the gremlin and he is only equipped with the poker and forgot the feather. just my luck.