destiny_77

So excited!!!!

@@FancyCakes, I, too, have a script of Omeprazole that I take faithfully daily and I still feel hungry but I am sticking to my liquids. Thank you for the tip just the same though. @@meganmom, have you started regular foods yet? I'm wondering if the energy is coming from the Protein in food rather than our shakes... Thanks for the responses guys, I can use all the help I can get!! I will say, that I am feeling a whole lot better than I have been! Hope y'all are doing well!!

Destiny_77 today was the first day I have had energy and felt normal again. I felt great overall. This is week 3 1/2 for me. It gets better I promise. I had no energy last week.

Just as a side note, I came home from surgery and I was starving. I would try to eat and it wouldn't go away. It was stomach acid. I take omeprazole and now I don't have any fake hunger pains. Be sure your hunger is really hunger and not stomach acid.

Low carb diets will mess with a good night sleep, especially in the beginning

Yes, I had my surgery on the 28th. The first couple of days was horrendous but now all is well just some soreness and itchiness around my incisions but I'm coping well and feeling positive . Thank you for asking. Hope all is well with you!

Yes, I had my surgery on the 28th. The first couple of days was horrendous but now all is well just some soreness and itchiness around my incisions but I'm coping well and feeling positive . Thank you for asking. Hope all is well with you!

Destiny I too sleeved on the 28th and had a hernia repair. The pain I felt came from the repair and lasted two days. I have been lucky thus far. Suregery dayI slept all day. Day one I had some problems getting the protien shakes down however, I watered them down a bit and they went down better. Day two I went home and sipped sipped. Day 3 i filled up my two 32 oz insulated Water bottles with protien drinks and got thru 3/4 of my 64 oz I also had some protien broth. My energy is coming back. The thoughts I am having is as long as I make up two bottles a day with 64oz of fluid/protien and work on getting them down the less I worry about doing the right thing. I am calling this my new normal. I am taking it slow and steady and am in no hurry to move on to mushy foods or real food. If I keep doing this for a few weeks I think it will be beneficial in the long run. Now that pesky gas, belching and gurggling of the tummy yup that has to go!!!

@@destiny_77 I had an abdominal hernia repair done at the same time as my sleeve. The hernia was the only source of pain and soreness. The sleeve felt fine from the recovery room to right now.
It took a couple of days to get the surgical meds flushed outa my system. Stuff had me drowsy and lethargic.
It took over a week to get most of the surgery related inflammation flushed out, too.
Somewhere around week 3 I started to have issues with low blood pressure. It was low for the first time in my adult life. Low because of the fast weight loss that sped up on the pre-op & post-op liquid diet. The doc cut my blood pressure meds way down and those odd feels were done and I was instantly good to go.
The really good feeling showed up around week 8-9. I think the weight loss had reached a point where my back and knees were getting good relief and I was seeing the benefits to the surgery.
Improved vascularity, happy state of mind and overall relief knowing that 2016 was going to be the best year I've seen finally set in.
The pre-op periods sucks.
The first month afterwards is hum-drum.......everybody gets sick of the liquid life.
Somewhere shortly after that, though, normal sleeve life takes over and the improvements become evident and grow from there.
Hang in there and stick with your program. You'll be so far past the "no fun" part of the deal really soon..............

To start feeling normal again ie not tired not in pain and to start eating normal food it took me 7 weeks. t 7 weeks I started to have loads of energy too . Best of luck x

I went back to work on day 6 and felt pretty good at that point. Felt completely normal by day 10.

I was two weeks on 12/28 and felt tired and foggy. The dr had me start my bari mult Vitamin on 12/29 plus puréed food. Within 48 hours the lethargy and brain fog lifted. I feel great today! You will turn the corner soon! Keep up with your fluids!

I was pretty back to normal in about two weeks for everything but exhaustion. That took about six weeks to dissipate. Hang in there!

2 weeks for me but like babbs said everyday gets better

I concur with @HopeandAgony. I felt almost human at about 5 weeks.
Just keep in mind, this is only temporary. The way you feel now is not going to be the way you feel at 3 week, 3 months, 6 months...it just keeps getting better and better!

Everyone is different. I started to feel better about day 4 post surgery, and began improving fairly rapidly after that. I would say my full energy didn't come back for a few weeks though. The good news is when it did I had more energy than I've had in years!

The first 2 weeks for me were very rough. I was miserable. The 3rd week I started to feel better. I didn't feel fully 100% myself with no residual pain until week 5. I had a ton of scar tissue from 4 prior abdominal surgeries so I had some extensive lingering pain.
Weeks 3 to 5 weren't horrible, I just wasn't 100% yet. Week 5 was a life changer for me. I am now almost 7 weeks post op and better than ever.
Hang in there. It's a rough go for a while. Keep drinking. Best advice I have.

@destiny_77 Everything went great! I am surprised how little pain I had. I agree with you, that when I woke up in recovery, the pain was horrible, but they quickly had it under control. I expect the soreness will probably get worse in the next couple of days. I was discharged this morning, and home now. The only issue that I ran into while in the hospital is, I was doing a lot of walking without shoes, only the hospital socks, and my calfs and shins are sore as the dickens. I mentioned the sore legs to the nurses, and this morning the surgeon decided to send me down to have ultrasounds to make sure I didn't have clots, before he would discharge me. I knew it wasn't clots, but I respect that he was cautious enough to make sure.

Ok, I had my surgery yesterday and I am doing OK this morning. I will say after I woke up from recovery, I was in the worst pain ever!!! After they got it under control though, I was fine. They also said as soon as I woke up my very first words was "I need to walk, they told me the gas pain would not be as bad if I walked", they thought that was funny since I was subconsciously talking and I got a laugh out of it when they told me. They told me as long as I keep doing good like I am, I could go home around noon . Hope all is well with everyone else, please update as soon as you can, I would love to know!!

Ok, I had my surgery yesterday and I am doing OK this morning. I will say after I woke up from recovery, I was in the worst pain ever!!! After they got it under control though, I was fine. They also said as soon as I woke up my very first words was "I need to walk, they told me the gas pain would not be as bad if I walked", they thought that was funny since I was subconsciously talking and I got a laugh out of it when they told me. They told me as long as I keep doing good like I am, I could go home around noon . Hope all is well with everyone else, please update as soon as you can, I would love to know!!

Congrats and best wishes to everyone that has their surgery tomorrow!! I start my prep for mine on the 11th tomorrow!

It's ony 5 here and I still got some things to get together but then its off to dreamland (I hope). I pray all goes well with you and as soon as you can update, please do! I will do the same. Good night!

Let's see... I was blessed (or maybe not) with only having to do a 1 day liquid diet before surgery. I thought,,, one day, that's no big deal!! A whole lot better than 2 weeks like some are having to do from what I've read on here. Boy, was I wrong!! Every Sunday after church our family always goes to dinner together as a tradition. Well, today being my liquid day, we decided it best to let them get something and bring it home so I didn't have to sit and smell the food or watch everyone eat. Well,,, my nose must be that of a hound dog today because I can still smell it!! I'm happy they thought enough of me to break our tradition and I'm doing my best to keep a positive attitude but this is hard y'all!! I hope it's true that it's not this hard after surgery but I will cross that bridge when I get to it!! I've made it this far and I'm not giving in now!! Ok, I put my feelings out there and I kind of feel better #NotBlowingMySecondChance

Let's see... I was blessed (or maybe not) with only having to do a 1 day liquid diet before surgery. I thought,,, one day, that's no big deal!! A whole lot better than 2 weeks like some are having to do from what I've read on here. Boy, was I wrong!! Every Sunday after church our family always goes to dinner together as a tradition. Well, today being my liquid day, we decided it best to let them get something and bring it home so I didn't have to sit and smell the food or watch everyone eat. Well,,, my nose must be that of a hound dog today because I can still smell it!! I'm happy they thought enough of me to break our tradition and I'm doing my best to keep a positive attitude but this is hard y'all!! I hope it's true that it's not this hard after surgery but I will cross that bridge when I get to it!! I've made it this far and I'm not giving in now!! Ok, I put my feelings out there and I kind of feel better #NotBlowingMySecondChance

It's ony 5 here and I still got some things to get together but then its off to dreamland (I hope). I pray all goes well with you and as soon as you can update, please do! I will do the same. Good night!