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Has anyone had gall bladder issues early on?

It never occurred to me not to eat my Easter dinner that I bought and prepared. Over the weekend I went out to dinner & had Easter dinner. I lost 3 pounds. I can only eat a max of 4 tblspns. Max. Even if I ate 4 tblspns of pure sugar I wouldn't gain a pound. I have no guilt. I did not do anything wrong and neither did you. Move forward.

My BFFs are both MDs & they both told me that it takes the body time to adjust to operating at such a significant calorie deficit. Your body was used to operating on a significantly higher budget. It has to adjust... especially carrying such a significant amount of weight. This is my 3rd week post op and I can definitely that I am still in recovery and adjustment mode. It's getting a little better each day. One thing, it HAD to be more exhausting carrying around the additional pounds. I think it's in our heads "how much more energy we used to have" [emoji23]

I am almost 6 weeks out. I have only lost 10 lbs, since week 2. I was having problems getting my Protein and Water in and I stayed costipated. I went to my support group on 811th. They told me what to do. I guess I am in a stall. It is depressing. I would love to lose faster. I am only on full liquids.

I'm not loosing dramatically I'm at 168 from preop 190

I was sleeved 3/31 I would love some buds to compare and support!

My biggest complaint would be how tired I am. Its annoying because I have 4 kids with tons of energy. I'm hoping this will change soon.

When do you start losing? One week out and not one pound

What is the stool sample for? I've not ever heard of that requirement

You know the feeling after Thanksgiving dinner? Not the stuffed part....but the part where you just want to go to sleep? That's me anytime I eat solid food. I become extremely lethargic. It's always Protein too.... has anyone else experienced this? I am basically just doing Meal Replacement shakes because I can't afford to fall asleep in the middle of the day. Any suggestions.

The goal weight/April expectation was set by the Dr & Nutritionist.
*nods* Im going to talk to the Dietitian about upping my calories..see if it helps. I haven't figured my calories for my goal weight but Illl look into that.
I truly am happy with what I've done so far..just discouraged for the most part and confused when ive been doing what I was told to do.
Thanks for the suggestions! [emoji4]

Same thing happened to me I thought I was dying, I couldn't drink anything for the first week. Thank God my my obsessive stalking on BP before surgery and all the files I kept on the vets suggestions, I remembered I had read somewhere about another person w/the same issue....my problem was the cold drinks. I found out that I could take sips of very hot liquids with no issues. Popsicles, Jello n cold Water were a no and still are for me today. It will get better. I still don't know how I made it past 2 weeks post surgery.....take it easy you are still healing.

Try different temps. Cold hurt to me, room temp and warm were fine.

I was March 30th. After a few days of having god forsaken gas pains, I'm relieved and feeling MUCH. I can honestly say the pain from the gas was 100 times worse than the incision pain. My incisions don't both for the most part. Still tender and have to get up and sit down slowly, but doing pretty well.

Hope all is well with you guys and gals!

My stomach was cramping when I drank. My surgeon called in other meds. Call your surgeon!

I am only drinking very limited amounts because it's so painful to drink. When the liquid goes down it hurts so badly. I have been to the ER and the bloodwork shows no sign of bleeding internally. Everything looks good according to the numbers except for dehydration.

Is this normal? It's so painful to drink I don't want to take another sip. By painful I don't mean painful to swallow. I mean painful once it gets down my throat and heads to the stomach, it feels like knives stabbing me.

Maybe

It helped me a little bit. I'm 9 days post op and I've only used 1.. Walking helped me the most

They didn't help me, but many others have said they helped them.

They help with gas inside the stomach. They don't help with gas inside the body cavity. I took them for the first couple of weeks. They would probably be more helpful now, some foods really get my stomach rumbling.

Didn't help me much...

They didn't help me, but many others have said they helped them.

I am reading conflicting info. Will GasX strips actually help relieve the gas pain in your chest and back that was pumped in during surgery?

I had my band out in December and my sleeve was done last week. Like you, I also have PCOS. The band removal was a super simple surgery; the sleeve surgery was a bit harder. I did gain 5lbs between the band removal and sleeve procedures. But, after I had healed from the band removal, I did go a little crazy for a week or two. If you stick to a normal, healthy diet you won't gain anything.

My surgeon suggested the sleeve and that's the procedure I wanted anyway. But when I called Humana today they said they don't cover the sleeve just gastric bypass and the band. [emoji17]