In your experience, what was the most difficult thing to get used to after the surgery? My surgery is May 5th and I'm just trying to get all my questions out. Thanks y'all!:smile:

1. CHEWING a lot

2. TAKING SMALL BITES

3. CONTROLLING MENTAL HUNGER

Other than that, you feel surprisingly the same...especially before fills.

Good luck. :smile:

i forgot to say LIQUID DIETS! Might be #1 - it's the hardest and worst part but temporary.

I am eating just about everything. No stress... until he starts putting the saline in I guess. Didn't even have to mush up food after the 7 day liquid diet. It's only been a week but I am ready for a fill already. I doubt he will do it though.

Leaving food on my plate... understanding that when my stomach tells me I am done, I am done. I have had some painful sliming/PBing episodes because I tried to take one or two more bites when my stomach already said I was done.

Try to eat slowly especially if I am hungry.

Like Ada, not taking that one last bite.

So far, it's the liquid diet. I didn't think that the five day pre-op diet was all that tough, but it was definitely short term. My post-op full liquid diet is a different story. It began the day after surgery and will last for six weeks. I've made it for two weeks now and have exactly four weeks to go. Very, very tough. Giving up caffeine has been pretty tough too and I've got four more weeks of that to face as well.

I have 2, but they were short lived and I am past them now.

1. My left shoulder pain from pressure on my phrenic nerve lasted a very long time. I used pain Patches to ease the pain and it went away after some good weightloss.

2. Hairloss/thinning. No matter what I tried, and I tried everything, I lost a lot of hair. The hair is filling in nicely now.

my hair loss has been scary. It seems to have slowed recently, though. finally.

I've heard of this as a side effect of not getting sufficient protein after surgery, but am not aware of anything other than adequate protein to resolve the problem. Curious what other methods you used to reverse the hair loss?

Hairloss/thinning. No matter what I tried, and I tried everything, I lost a lot of hair.

I used Protein shakes, shots, bullets, bars........

Biotin

Nioxin shampoo & conditioner

silica

Nioxin Vitamins

Rogain

there are more things that don't come to my foggy mind at the moment

Edited April 30, 201016 yr by Humming Bird

Thank you for the quick response. Was it finally just adequate Protein that resolved the problem or something else?

I used Protein shakes, bars........

Biotin

Nioxin shampoo & conditioner

silica

Nioxin Vitamins

Rogain

there are more things that don't come to my foggy mind at the moment

It is hard to say whether it just timed itself out or the extra protein and biotin helped for me.

I don't think the protein had anything to do with it.

I think my body was in shock from the rapid weightloss.

The first 75 pounds flew off with no effort on my part.

I also think it has much to do with the type of hair I have. My hair is baby fine and very straight. I used to have a lot of hair, but each strand is very fine. It is now driving me a little crazy with all the areas of shorter hair that is filling in, but at least I don't have so many areas where scalp is showing.

For me the hardest thing has been small bites and chewing well.

Regarding thinning hair, I read that it can occur starting about 3 months after surgery and lasts for several months. That is exactly what I experienced and it just resolved on its own - I kept my Protein up to help.