i just got home and stepped on the scale to see a 15 lb weight gain how can this be?

IV FLUIDS...hang in there it will come off. STAY OFF THE SCALE for at least 2 days. I found that I needed to only weigh 1 time a week. I know it is hard at first but it really kept me sane. You will be posting big losses in NO time.

You had an IV. Each pint of liquid they pump into weighs approximately 1 pound. The bags are 1 liter, which is bigger than a quart, so over 2 pounds. You had many bags of fluid - which you haven't had a chance to get rid of yet. Your body is in shock - it didn't like being cut on - and is retaining fluids because of it. The previous poster is right - stay off the scale for a few days. Just remember what you weighed before surgery, and then maybe a week afterwards.

I was weighed right before surgery on Tuesday at 251 lbs and just twelve hours later my nurse had me step on the scale during a walk around the ward...259 lbs! Yikes! All fluids from IV's and surgery.

This morning, three days post op? Back down to 251 lbs. Whew! Like the others have said, it will come off soon!

YEP i gained weight also. Its the Iv fluid. And any fluids you drank is being retained, because your body is in shock.

I came home eight pounds heavier, and was waking up five or six times a night to urinate to get rid of all of those liquids. I think it took four or five days to get rid of all the IV fluids.

I was heavier after surgery too. It is just all of the fluids they give you. It was gone within a couple of days.

I came home 9 lbs heavier. Like everyone said, it goes away really quickly!

I put on 12 pounds from the morning of surgery to the next morning! Like the others said, I got rid of it quickly and started dropping "real" weight shortly thereafter.