H all,

I just got sleeved on the 23rd! I was released from the hospital on Tuesday about 5 p.m. It was rough going at first but I think now it was due to the morphine. I was so groggy and slept all of the time. Started taking Tylenol this morning and have moved around a lot today. Much better. I would stop taking your big boy pain medication as soon as you can because you will feel more like yourself.

I am not going to weigh myself for two weeks because I know the surgery makes you gain weight. I do not seem to have the no hunger thing that people talk about. I am kinda disappointed about that because I feel like I could eat a horse right now. I am sure I can't but my stomach is GROWLING. I was hoping I'd be one of the lucky ones! Oh well, hopefully the restriction will help me. I'm taking it really slow!

I wish you all the best!

Hi Becky, CONGRATS TO YOU!!!

Don't worry about the no hunger. For some sleevers it just takes a little longer for the hunger to go away, so you may still be one of the "lucky" ones in time.

Also, great job on the weight you have already lost!!

I wasn't hungry the first couple days after surgery, but then it came back. I am 16 days out today and still get hungry. It doesn't seem to be that ravenous hunger like before, but my stomach still gowles and tells me when to eat. I can go much longer without eating than before too. So, don't get too discouraged, give it some time. I find everyday, my hunger issues get better and better!

Good luck to you in your journey!!

Kelly

Congrats on your surgery. Hoping for a quick recovery for you! My new mantra is "every day gets better!"

Holly

congratulations! Sounds like it went well for you. I hope the hunger goes away for you soon. Thank you for posting.

Are you taking an acid reducer like prilosec? I believe some of what is thought to be hunger is due to acid. My doctor (and many) starts you on a PPI day one for three months. I have zero hunger.

Congratulations. My surgery was May 13th. For me the hunger is diminished but I am also dealing with a lot of acid reflux so I can't tell if I am really hungry right now.

If it makes you feel better..my hunger went away around 4 months post op. I do sometimes get and empty feeling but not true hunger pains like before....

It gets better every day...I'm telling you!!

Hi! I still feel too tired to stay n the computer for too long but I am sure it will get better every day. My doctor put me on Zantac but it is too hard to tell if it is working yet because of all the gas I have in my system, still working its way out from surgery. I guess I will know more as time goes by. If it doesn't seem to help, I will ask for another one. In some ways, this has been easier than I thought and in other ways, much harder. So weird! The sensation of Fluid and other full liquids moving through me feels so different and I know if I push it too far too soon, it will cause me issues so I am definitely following my doctor's advice to the letter. But I am not having much trouble getting as much liquid in as I thought. I am not up to goal yet but I was able to get 32 ounces in yesterday in addition to the popsicle I eat and the broth. So I think that is pretty good. Now that I am not so doped up, it is much easier to remember to do it and it does make me feel better.

My mom had flown in to help me but she has to go home today but my husband is laid off at present so he will be around to help me. I figure after this first week, I will be pretty functioning from how I feel now. So, other than help doing stuff around the house, my hubby will be let off the hook! But I will play it day by day. I know I will miss my mom, because there is nothing like a mom to spoil you!

I definitely feel satisfied with what I have been eating. My brain doesn't think it will happen but then I eat, wait for a little bit and then I feel like I eat a big meal. So I hope, even if I keep the hunger, it will continue this way.

I haven't updated my ticker yet (forgot my pin at work, ugh) but before the surgery, I had lost a total of 58 pounds, after the pre-op diet. I do owe it all to knowing this surgery was coming because I knew I was going to get help in the future to continue to lose weight. I tend to start to stall all the time around 50 pounds so I know that was around the corner. It has given me the motivation to lose what I have already and hope to lose more soon. I will let you know in about 1 and half weeks because I figure I will wait until then to weigh myself again. I don't want to get disappointed by any surgery fluctuations. It will wait at this point.

I can't thank all of you enough for getting me through to this point and I'm sure more in the future. You have answered more questions and worries then I could ever name in the past seven months. Thanks!

Becky

Congrats on your new sleeve. You are doing great so far.

As everyone has already said, it really does get better. I was sleeved on 05/09 and still had the real hunger afterwards. It's getting better everyday and I noticed yesterday that I only got a slightly empty feeling. Also, once I ate my mushies, I felt full for many many hours afterwards. It really does change from a living to eat mentality to a eating to live. Right now, it's been about 12 hours since my last Protein shake and I have no hunger at all.

Good luck and remember to take it easy. You just had major surgery.

Congrats on being sleeved! Wow, you did a great job losing wait pre-op, good for you! I did the same thing, wanted to get a head start. I stalled for about 5-6 months, but knew I would be having surgery eventually to help me continue on, so for the first time in my life, I didn't give in to the old "oh well, depriving myself isn't losing the weight, so I'm just gonna go ahead and have <insert high calorie/high carb food here>. I am so glad I at least maintained the loss until getting sleeved. I was sleeved on 5/16, just a wk before you and had a great and easy recovery. Strangely last night I had some kind of weird pain under my left shoulder blade that was more irritating than painful, but it bugged me, felt like a trapped gas bubble. I didn't expect that at this point, but I guess it takes longer than I thought to work all the gas out of our system. I had hubby beat me on my back and burp me like a baby haha. Except for surgery day, I had really not had a bad problem with it, thankfully. So be aware that it can sneak up on you when you least expect it and think you are far past it lol.

On the hunger thing, I too suggest a PPI, because I have no hunger as long as I take mine. If I don't, it seems like I do have an odd "fake" hunger and my tummy rumbles more. I haven't needed pain meds much at all from day one. This is remarkable to me. Most days since surgery I haven't been tired til yesterday either, I think I was on some kind of high after finally getting to be sleeved because I've been waiting on it for yrs. So I just started my B12 to see if that helps prevent me from getting tired. Of course I have been walking/shopping everyday and have probably been way overdoing it this soon. I think I am substituting shopping for the not eating while on liquids, so hopefully I will get to start mushies soon or I'll have to file bankruptcy. tehe

Wow, I am impressed you are waiting 2 wks to weigh, that's great!! I am weighing now, cuz it's fun while it's coming off kinda fast, but when I get closer to that "dreaded 3 wk stall" I am going to stop weighing for a while so I don't get discouraged or depressed. I will eventually probably only weigh once every 2 wks.

Glad to hear things are going good for you, and as everyone says it gets better everyday!! I am honored to be sitting on the losers bench with ya!

HI everyone,

It is my fifth day out now. I think most of the major hunger sensations have gone away so it must have been the gas. I do get that empty feeling when it is time to eat but I am not getting the growlies. I made this high Protein pudding recipe where it had cottage cheese, sugar free pudding mix, whip cream, vanilla Protein powder and 4 tbs of milk. It was really good and keeps me full for so so long. I have to find the full recipe and put it in the recipe section. I think this pudding will be my friend for the next 12 days.

I just tried this Red Pepper and Tomato cream Soup made by Pacific Natural Foods - I got it at Giant food in their organic section. My husband was eating pizza and this tasted just like a really good pizza so I wasn't at all jealous!

I feel like I could eat more than the 2oz at a time I have been trying but I figured I will just eat every 4 hours or so and that would probably be better than eating too much at once.

I definitely feel the restriction of my stomach but I thought that it would be worse - that I'd get some nauseous feelings or something. Maybe I am not became I am eating small amounts at a time and really sticking the full liquids that my doctor put me on for two weeks? I don't want to push it too far right now either in volume or anything off of the full liquids list I was given. I guess I will feel it more when I move into pureed foods, etc.

Ok, back to reading everyone's posts!

Becky