I was at the hospital for28 hours, hooked up to the iv the whole time.

I gained 15 pounds! Will it all go away?

Same thing happened with me! I went in 220 lbs and left 230 lbs. I was like 'what the hell!?!?!' but by day four post-op I had lost it all. =)

You'll lose it, you know rationally that there's no way you can gain 15lb of fat in that time frame.

Dont they just go overboard on the fluids though? I had a huge op 8 weeks ago and they filled me sooooo full of saline, I thought I would burst. OK, so I had what was known on the ward as the "rampaging stoma" meaning, to put it delicately, that I was producing about 5litres of sh*t a day, but still. I am pretty thin now and I couldnt see any of the tendons in my hands and feet, heck, I couldnt even see my knuckles! I had cankles and could barely get one thigh round the other and STILL they kept pumping me fuill. My normally 108 or so on something less than 60 blood pressure was 130/80! And I had to keep dragging the stupid IV in and out of the bathroom to pee six times an hour after having had a major abdominal surgery. I was ready to kill someone by the end of it.

I got home to find I'd gained none, lost none (they say with the op I had 5kg is the average loss) but over the following week I dropped aboout 4kgs and looked a bit more like a human being than a puffer fish.