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Hope you're feeling better!

Use your phone to set a timer to time between bites. It helps a lot and 60 seconds is longer than it feels!

It sounds like you are eating too fast and/or with bites that are too big. Tiny bites (like baby spoon sized bites), chew thoroughly, take 30-60 seconds between bites.

I can hardly see my incisions and it's been less than 6 weeks. The small ones are about a 1/4 inch now, the "big one" is about an inch. I wouldn't get hung up on incisions. My pain was very minimal.

Not at all, but I think it really depends on whether you're prone to keloid scars. If you are, it's a wound and you could get keloid scarring like any wound.

You shouldn't be this early. Does your doctor have you on an acid-reducer? That growling is most likely acid.

Take advantage of those 4 months. The first year is the easiest to lose. Take a hard look at what you're eating. Cut out simple carbs and focus on eating your protein first, then non starchy veggies.

Lord Almighty, what a frightening experience. I'm so glad you're still here to tell us about it! I hope the rest of your story is nothing but smooth sailing and lots of success. You have earned at least that and so much more...

Ask your doctor. I can swallow anything around the size of a baby aspirin, but today at my 5 week appt he said to wait for 3 months before I switched to regular tablet vitamins (I was bitching about how awful the chewables are!)

Of course you couldn't! Hair is such a huge part of what makes us feel pretty. To see it in a brush instead of on our heads is traumatic. Just keep repeating to yourself, "it's temporary..."

Thick is good. That means the loss will be less noticeable on your head (still scary in the sink!). Try not to panic as stress won't improve the situation. Know that it will stop soon and those hairs will grown back. In the meantime, get all your protein and take your vitamins. That's all that's within your control.

It could be acid reflux...

Weight loss in general helps PCOS symptoms.

You may need to post in the more general parts of the forum until it gets closer to August.

You are at mile 0.1 of a marathon. Small fluctuations and stalls are totally normal. Don't stress, just keep doing what you're supposed to do and it'll work.

Aren't you Little Mary Sunshine! If you don't adopt good habits in the first year, yes you'll regain weight. It requires forever vigilance and is not a cure all, which perhaps you expected it to be?

Surgery plus post op recovery is about 2 hours together.

You want a chewable or liquid vitamin. My surgeon recommends Opti-Source bariatric chewables. I don't like them, but I have yet to find something I like better.

No. They cannot put the minerals you will need in gummies.

Men's and Women's 5% Rogaine is exactly the same stuff, but with different directions (men's says use 2x per day, women's say once per day). But don't waste your money on pills and potions. Your hair will come back when the stressors stop. Nothing you buy will change that.

Protein is important. Maybe try a few sips of a shake to see how it sits (if your doctor wants you drinking shakes at this point)?

Fat is a major storer of estrogen, so burning fat is releasing that estrogen. That plus the trauma of surgery is likely enough to cause spotting!

If your doctor ran the tests, what do they advise? Seems smarter to do what they say than quiz random folks on the internet.

Agree with the above, but one other thought. Could it be your period? Surgery tends to start it for many of us when it isn't expected.

For me, It ended up coming out first because of the pretesting snd surgeon's visits.