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Fast Hair loss & Slow Weight Loss

I feel so far behind most of y'all posting on here. I'm only down about 60 lbs from my high, less than 40 lbs post-op. I'm aiming for 100g Protein per day, 900 cal total. And my hair is falling out like crazy, which I would understand if I was dropping weight quickly. I haven't stopped any of my medications yet either. Have your surgeons been sending you in for lab work frequently?

I'm in the exact same situation. Three months post-op, hair falling out like crazy. My hair is also really long (past my waist) so I'm literally rolling up handfuls of hair into hairballs while I site on the couch watching TV. For those of you who cut your hair, did it make you feel better?

I have Gerd I take 40mg of Prilosec a day before surgery 7/14 I had the sleeve. I was warned it could get much worse but it actually got better. I haven’t had heartburn once and I barely take my medicine anymore lol

Did research and ordered BariMelts and EZ melts Vitamins online. D3, Calcium plus, B12, multi vit, Iron with Vit C. Presently taking with Optifast liquid diet (2 wks liquid diet) till 27th and 28th of August is surgery date early a.m. One way of avoiding malnutrition/vitamin deficiency. These vitamins melts in your mouth. Also doing light exercise as well. First 2 days on liquid was rough, however 3rd day till present is all good with 48 oz no sugar, no calories liquid.

Y'all have convinced me to try straws again. Before surgery, I would drink around 120oz Water per day; after, I've been struggling to get 64oz and it's because I'm not constantly sipping water through my straw all day. It's much easier to just take a pull on a straw when I'm doing something else vs. opening a bottle and/or tilting my head back to take in drink.

SG 7/30/2020 HW 294 SW 270 CW 266

Are you taking any stomach acid reducing medication? Excess stomach acid (for the amount of food/drink currently being consumed) can feel sometimes feel like hunger.

My post op was 2 days Clear Liquids, 12 days full liquids (Days 3-14), 2 weeks pureed/mushies, then back to regular high Protein meals at 30 days out. All directions are so different!!!

Thanks for the reply, [mention=382689]Pckeys[/mention]. I started a Keto diet July 9th so I'm surprised it took so long to drop, based on your explanation. Anyway, it was high again yesterday so I guess I just need to be patient.

SG2020 HW 294 SW 270 CW 270

I'm 4 days out and just now feeling like the pain is manageable. I agree with the new stomach sensations. My tum is always gurgly and rumbly now, which I feel like I used to associate with hunger. So I'm feeling like I'm always hungry, even though I'm 100% sure that I'm not. It's quite annoying. Did anyone else go through that a few days after surgery? Did it go away? I hate feeling like I'm hungry constantly!

I feel super hungry too, which I didn't expect because the surgeon told me that they were removing the portion of my stomach that made me feel hungry. One of the main reasons I had surgery was so I wouldn't feel hungry all the time. Why is my stomach still growling?

SG2020 HW 294 SW 270 CW 270

Prior to surgery, my Omron blood pressure readings were consistently in the "Hypertension Stage 2" category. Yesterday, my BP was down to "Elevated" and today it says "Normal." Is that for real? How can I see such a drastic change when I haven't lost weight yet?

SG2020 HW 294 SW 270 CW 270

On 5/6/2013 at 2:46 PM, angelpooh29 said:

5 months since surgery and down 104 pounds. Yay

Wow, you look amazing!

Wow, I had gastric sleeve yesterday, and my post-op diet is Clear Liquids for 2 weeks, all liquids for two weeks, then pureed foods for 2 weeks. Yogurt is included in the all liquids section, and cottage cheese doesn't come in until the pureed phase at week 5.

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They had standard size bath towels in the bathroom, and it wrapped all the way around me without a gap!

OMG this is totally going to be one of my goals! I'm staying in a hotel right now and the towel only covers my back OR front.

I just had my sleeve yesterday! I'm finding it a little difficult to sleep this first night post-op, but it might be more about the hotel bed than the surgery.

SG2020 HW 294 SW 270 CW 270

The desired weight is not what is used in this equation though. It is bone and muscle mass. That is determined usually by a special scale at the dr's office. If 145 was the weight of the bone and muscle mass then this equation would be correct. For example, I weighed 260 at the doctor's at my initial visit - the scale found 130 of that to be bone and muscle and the other 130 to be excess weight. So using the same formula, I'd lose 60% of 130, so 78 lbs, putting my "success" weight at 182. Does this help?

This is interesting to me. Due to COVID, almost all of my interaction with my doctor's office has been remote. The only time I went into the office was for my x-ray; I didn't get to use a special scale. Now I want to look into this.

But if you have low muscle mass before surgery and you build that up via exercise afterward, does that actually makes your goal weight a moving target?

SG 7/30/2020 HW 294 SW 270 CW 270

One of my first appointments with my doctor, I said I wanted to lose 100. I was currently at 257 at the time. He said he liked that goal. On surgery day, I was 249. I managed to get down to 241, but gained due to covid. I will be happy at 150, 130 tops..nothing lower, I'm 5'5.

I had my gastric sleeve this morning! Everything went well, and I've left the hospital. Still nervous about everything, but glad it's done!

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I got a call from my surgeon's office today saying they have to reschedule. ☹️

Fortunately it's only a one-week postponement (to July 30), but that means I have three weeks of pre-op diet. I'm so hungry right now. I really just want to tear into a plate of carbs. I'm not even that picky, pretty much any carbs would do. 🍟🍞🥨🍟🥞🥧🍩🍟🍪🍰🍟

I'm in Texas, and I think my surgery will have to be postponed (Gov cancelled elective surgeries for the area I'm in), but my doctor won't confirm that yet. I started my pre-op liquid diet Thursday and I feel like I might just fall apart if I go through this for two weeks only to be told that my surgery is off, when I could have been told that on day 2. How long can you safely stay in ketosis?

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This actually gives me so much hope. I have all these great shoes in a size 7N, but the past few years my feet have grown to a size 8. I've been thinking about selling/donating them, but maybe I should wait a while after my surgery to see what happens?

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I start my pre-op diet tomorrow. I just hope I'm prepared (as in, that I have enough stuff). I'm super worried about sticking to it, esp. the no caffeine part.

Texas hasn't banned all elective surgeries again, right now it's just 8 counties (Bexar, Dallas, Harris, Travis, Cameron, Hidalgo, Nueces and Webb). My doctor is in Travis but the hospital is in Williamson, so I'm currently still in for July 23 (fingers crossed, I think). I do worry about getting COVID while I'm at the hospital though.

So I thought my July 23 surgery would be cancelled because Travis County, Texas, where my doctor's office is located, cannot have elective surgeries due to COVID. It turns out my hospital is in Williamson County, so I'm still on... but the governor is adding counties to the elective surgery ban as their hospital beds near capacity. Williamson County borders Travis County, so I'm proceeding as usual for now but my surgery might get cancelled at any time. I'm supposed to start my pre-op diet in a week.

I was scheduled for July 23, but my governor just banned elective surgeries again. Now I have no idea when I'll be able to reschedule. I certainly don't want to be in a hospital with a bunch of COVID-19 patients, so I'm not really complaining. We shouldn't have opened as fast as we did. Just got my hopes up prematurely. 😞