Hello all, this is my first post. I am only 8 days out and already feel like I could eat anything in house. Is this normal? How do I keep from ruining my sleeve? I eat bites of everything I feed my son and have horrible back/shoulder pain. How do I stop from feeling so hungry and eating?

I am 3 days post op and while I am not physically hungry at all, I am having horrible cravings for all kinds of food! I am hoping the cravings will pass since I am on protein shakes, yogurt, and 4 oz. pureed fruit for the next 3 weeks. Solid food just sounds so good! I am also taking my pepcid every day.

Did you mention the back/shoulder pain to your doc? Even your primary would do. That is one one the things I am told I should watch for after surgery and notify my doctor if it continues past 2 days post-op.

I had bad back and shoulder pain and my doc said it was a case of plueresy and very common. Ask him if you can have an injection of Toradol. You will feel great after that. However i agree that you should not be eating solid foods yet and should probably still be on full liquids. Do you have a dietician available in his office?

Hi all, thanks for the replies and I am sorry that it took me awhile to get back. I am now 24 days post- op and I did get all my issues under control. My shoulder pain was a concern for my primary but the suregon assured me it was normal and in the past 4 days has went away ( thank goodness!) I also finally got off the bad food my primary thought it was a mix of my blood sugars ( off my meds per suregons request ) and caffeine because I drank coffee to get going in the mornings. I am eating healthy small portion proteins but I am still interested in other food I just not eating it haha. It's getting easier and I'm so happy I did this for myself.

Just to say not drinking the caffeine made me hungry not the other way around.