tabbycat

@@Cape Crooner,
That's a completely unnecessary post.

Hi...I am 6 weeks post op and twice in the last week I have been awoken in the middle of the night feeling like I am going to vomit. Lots of retching, coughing and it feels awful. Then for a couple of days my stomach and intestines are grumbling, and I ha pave the worst rancid taste. Any ideas on why this would be happening? It really caught me off guard because others wise all has been going really well.

Mine sounded like a dinosaur fight for at least three months.

Thanks for the suggestions! I am on prescription strength Pepcid. I do think I am eating too late. I find it hard to get all my Protein and Water in which pushes eating later than I would like. I'll work on that and will call my doctor today.

I second everyone else's reactions:
From whence in hell do these expectations arise for newbies that you're going to lose any faster than you're losing now?
I truly don't understand it.
Here are my monthly losses:
I started at 235.6 pounds. I'm 5'5" tall and was 68 years old when I had VSG surgery.
Pre-op diet (my own): lost 10.6 pounds in 2 months
Surgeon's pre-op diet: lost 8 pounds in 2 weeks
Post-op:
Month 1: lost 10.4 pounds
Month 2: lost 11.8 pounds
Month 3: lost 9.2 pounds
Month 4: lost 10.4 pounds
Month 5: lost 6.8 pounds
Month 6: lost 5.0 pounds
Month 7: lost 6.2 pounds
Month 8: lost 4.4 pounds
Month 9: lost 3.8 pounds (reached my first weight goal during this month ... at 150 pounds)
Month 10: lost 1.8 pounds
Month 11: lost 2.6 pounds
Month 12: lost 0.6 pounds
Month 13: lost 1.2 pounds
I now weigh 142 pounds.
Those who weighed a lot more than I did initially, men, and young people probably lost weight faster than I did. But if you're a post-menopausal woman, this is what you can expect.
I might add, it's pretty amazingly wonderful to have lost 93 pounds in 13 months. I couldn't have wished for a better outcome.