lottie2021

A stitch is like a crampy spasm that runs down your side. I used to get them when I ran (well that jogging thing I used to pretend to do). Best way to alleviate them is to stretch the muscle (raise the arm on the stitch side, stretch it out) & breathe slowly & deeply into the stretch.
Wouldn't be surgical gas pain this far out from your surgery @lottie2021 but you could have excess digestive gas. When I had a abdominal scan at 9 months out I was apparently full of digestive gas though I wasn’t at all windy or bloated so 🤷🏻‍♀️. Maybe try some gas-X or similar - won’t hurt.
Some surgeons use a long tethering stitch so it could be that pulling a bit as it’s dissolving.
Guve your medical team a call to be sure.

Hi, I have hypothyroid too. I got gastric bypass done in 23 rd Dec 2020 and in 6 weeks have lost only 13lbs. Is there anyone else who has lost such less amount of weight. It’s really bugging me.

Hi @Castrad01 - I wait an hour typically because I used to have a morning coffee and unfortunately just sips will cause interference with synthroid effectiveness. I am no longer drinking coffee (to ward off the side effects before surgery), but I have also have heard that you have to wait at least an hour before eating as well.
With waiting the 4 hours after taking your thyroid meds - you have enough time to get all your vitamins/supplements in during the day?

I have the same question actually I heard calcium and Iron are both blockers. So I need to ask on my first appointment back in a couple weeks. I'll let you know what my physician says since my appointment is on the 15th.

Hello I am looking to connect with people who has hypothyroidism and have had the gastric bypass surgery.

I’ll start!

I’m channeling my inner Elle Woods today 😂

So I’ve anticipated getting sick of the liquid diet and I also want to get more veggies in so I bought a juicer! I made celery juice to try it today and it wasn’t too bad. It might be something to look into - celery juice is super healing and something different. My primary care doc highly recommended celery and cucumber juices. I’m going to add unflavored Protein Powder (collagen peptides from orgain)

Well... my doctor said I only needed to do pre-op for 5 days but... I am so nervous something will go wrong I am going to start the pre-op on 3/29.