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I am now 20 days post op and for the first 2 weeks I was hungry all the time. I would wake up feeling like I was starving to death. It was real hunger and not head hunger and it didn't go away by drinking. Actually I never felt full even once during my first 2 weeks. Then I moved to puree foods and now I feel much better. I still get hungry but it is natural hunger. I now wake up feeling fine and eat breakfast then I get hungry a few hours later when it is time for the next meal. I also now get very full on puree food but it doesn't last for a long time unless I eat too much.

It depends on what your insurance company and surgeon requires. My insurance company didn't require me to lose weight but my clinic did. I had to have some type of loss every single month for 6 months or else they won't even submit to insurance company. Most people do lose a lot on the liquid diet but usually that starts after you are already approved so that won't be taken into account.

I'm almost 3 weeks out and I go back to work next week. i only have a desk job but I am still exhausted and frequently have nausea. I can't imagine going back next and i certainly couldn't have done it after one week. I had one day after about 10 days out where I thought I felt good so I was cleaning with just a little light bending and no lifting and I was in pain the whole rest of the day and scared that I might have hurt myself.

yes you really need to call surgeon, sounds like a stricture maybe

I'm a little over 2 weeks out and I have never thrown up. I weigh all my food and eat only what I am supposed to

Every person and program is different. i stayed one night because I was doing well and drinking well but the woman in the room next to mine who went to my same clinic was in for 2 nights because of nausea and blood pressure being either too high or too low, I don't remember. She didn't have blood pressure issues before surgery

I just started puree diet today and I can eat almost anything. They said 1 to 2 oz protein (any protein) and 2 oz vegetable 3 times a day pureed. Starchy carbs not allowed but if you weren't told not to have certain things then I don't see what you did wrong.

you are luckier than most people if you can move on in 7 days. I have been on full weeks for 2 weeks since surgery (and 2 weeks before surgery). Tomorrow I have my appointment so i can move on to puree. Good luck to you in 2 days

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I am allowed decaf coffee only but I don't remember for how long. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I was told to only eat 2oz of soup as part of my full liquid diet. Sometimes I feel really full afterwards and sometimes I don't Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

I am 5 days post op and constantly feel like I am starving to death. The hunger pains wake me up at night. I take a acid reducer twice a day. I hope the pains go away soon. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App

Everyone has already had great replies to this topic but I will tell my experience since my surgery was just on Wednesday. I had minor pain and no gas pain at all. They only had me on iv pain meds for the first 8 hours or so. After that they wanted me to use liquid for pain. I did that it was fine. Now I am home and I have a small amount of pain but it is very manageable. For me, everything was easier and less pain than I expected. But that is just my experience.

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