Hi everyone, I am 26 years old and had my surgery on June 13th. I started out feeling great and everything was healing as I assumed it was supposed to. I didn't have to do any type of pre-op diet, but since the surgery I have lost 23 pounds in 15 days. A few days ago I wasn't feeling well and my Dr. wanted to see me. I was told that I was losing weight a little too fast and I needed to skip forward to week 5 eating which of course is meat and cheese and things like that. Since I have been actually eating I feel a lot better, but I still don't feel 100% myself. I keep wondering if this surgery was a mistake. I am so tired, whenever I go out and do things I constantly have to sit down (which I never had to do before surgery) and I'm just wondering if this is normal and does it ever go away. I just want to feel 100% and feel like myself again, and I'm starting to wonder if that's ever going to happen....

I went through the same thing on a much more accelerated scale. My doctor's plan after surgery was two days liquids, two days mushies and then eating as tolerated. Once I started eating solids and a few healthy carbs (which my doctor didn't recommend, but I felt my body needed) I started feeling MUCH better. I'm five months out now and have been feeling great all those months with the exception of the first couple of weeks.

A 23 lb loss in 2 weeks is a lot for your body to adjust to. Add recovering from surgery to it, and it's no wonder you are not 100%! Your body has been through a bunch of trauma. Give it time, eat the foods you are prescribed, and heal up!

It's only been 2 weeks! Two weeks is 4% of 1 year.

tmf

It can take up to 6 weeeks to recover from surgery, rest as often as your body tells u to, eat what your doctor has advised u to and maybe take some multi vitamins etc, everyone feels tired for a length of time post op ... you are just healing so dont push it and it will eventually get better...