Hi All,

I haven't posted on here in quite some time, mostly because I have had smooth sailing for the past couple of months. I have been loosing weight steadily at my last two doc appointments and haven't gotten a fill. However, the past few days things have been different. I noticed this morning that my eyes have big dark circles even up to my nose. This is unusual for me. I have been feeling tired and fatigued as well. Eating dinner with some friends tonight I felt like I couldn't even follow the conversation. I sort of felt like I was in between two worlds. I have been more tired than usual. I typically wake up at 7 or 8 on a Sunday and today my husband woke me up at 10. This is not typical behaviour for me.

More troubling, I got on the scale and had gained 3 lbs.

Outside of band stuff, I am in the process of moving, and am packing and lifting a lot of stuff. Packing today I would have to work for an hour or so and then lie down, and repeat.

Does anyone out there in the community have any insight on what this could be?

Maybe you are coming down with something? I have been getting sick a lot more than I used to....seems to be something in the air :-( Hope you feel better soon!

Low iron maybe???

Hi All,

I haven't posted on here in quite some time, mostly because I have had smooth sailing for the past couple of months. I have been loosing weight steadily at my last two doc appointments and haven't gotten a fill. However, the past few days things have been different. I noticed this morning that my eyes have big dark circles even up to my nose. This is unusual for me. I have been feeling tired and fatigued as well. Eating dinner with some friends tonight I felt like I couldn't even follow the conversation. I sort of felt like I was in between two worlds. I have been more tired than usual. I typically wake up at 7 or 8 on a Sunday and today my husband woke me up at 10. This is not typical behaviour for me.

More troubling, I got on the scale and had gained 3 lbs.

Outside of band stuff, I am in the process of moving, and am packing and lifting a lot of stuff. Packing today I would have to work for an hour or so and then lie down, and repeat.

Does anyone out there in the community have any insight on what this could be?

Are you on any medications? I had to restart my blood pressure medicine, and the dosage was later increased because my blood pressure just won't stay down. I also feel like that when my blood sugar is low or high. I was taking medicine for diabetes before my surgery and it was stopped, so if I'm not careful about what I eat, or forget to eat because I'm not hungry, that's how I feel.

I suggest you get your thyroid checked. I had no problems with my thyroid until about 3 months after surgery. I do not think it had any thing to do with the band, just the timing but they put me on meds and i am still on them. I told him (doctor) not to put me on anything that would hamper my weight loss and he said it would not. Only takes a blood test to see whats going on. I spend 3 months so tired and sick looking, did not want to get out of bed, but keep losing weight,

I can not say it was my thyroid that made me feel that way but it stopped after med and about 4 or 5 month.

Get a blood test.

Cheri

Iron would be my guess.

I have fairly deep set eyes and we have hayfever and asthma and congested noses in the family too so dark circles are a fact of life to me and two of my kids have those allergic dark circles. But interestingly I noticed, that in the early period of my cancer treatment, when I knew that my iron levels had come right up (combination of a great diet due to unfilled lapband, heaps of fruit, vegies, red meat etc and the bleeding tumour gone) my skin looked fabulous, my hair was wonderful, my nails improved so much that I dont need acrylics anymore and the dark circles reduced markedly. I'm now post chemo radiation, post surgery and 8 weeks into a new 20 week round of chemo and down to a scrawny BMI of 19 and I *STILL* look way better than I did at full restriction - I've learned a lesson about just how difficult a restricted band makes getting a really nourishing diet in. You just cant do it long term on 1200 calories a day!

I never took supplements, didnt believe in them and still dont believe they replace a good diet, but its the only way when you cant eat the food.

Then again, you've got a lot on and you may understandably just be exhausted.