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Ive always been a person that can sleep all night without a problem, ive always love to sleep. Here lately since i had my sleeve a week ago i have not been able to sleep throught the night. I have the worst time trying to sleep and its really getting to me. Im on vacation and i want to take advantage of this and be able to sleep at leat 8 hrs and have a good night sleep but its just impossible. Anyone else loosing sleep after sleeve?

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You don't say how far out you are. I had trouble sleeping well the first three or four weeks. I'm six weeks out now and am sleeping much better. I always had to get up at least once at night to pee. Sometimes now I have to get up two or three times, probably due to all the fluids. But I go right back to sleep.< /p>

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You don't say how far out you are. I had trouble sleeping well the first three or four weeks. I'm six weeks out now and am sleeping much better. I always had to get up at least once at night to pee. Sometimes now I have to get up two or three times' date=' probably due to all the fluids. But I go right back to sleep.[/quote']

I an 1 1/2 weeks out

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I'm having similar issues, I can't get to sleep at night. I've tried sleeping in different positions, different places and finally after a few hours I've took some pain medication because I know it would knock me out. I don't know how long this will last but I'm already tired of it. I can't even imagine trying to do a vacation right now, but good luck to you and hope you have a great time. If you figure out the secret to getting back on track with sleeping let me know.

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Anesthesia can have surprising, lasting effects. I'm sure this is only temporary. I had nasal surgery over a year ago, and had issues with sleep. When I did sleep, I had night terrors. They stopped after a few weeks.

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Wow - I was the total opposite. I was sleeping for nearly 4 hours every afternoon (apart from my almost 10hrs sleep at night). This lasted for nearly 4 weeks post op. Like Shapeshifter said, I think this may just be temporary.

BUT, knowing that sleep is very important for recovery, you could try callling your surgeon and ask for something that you can take to help you sleep comfortably.

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I didn't sleep very well the first 1-2 Weeks post op. It was very uncomfortable. I had to take my liquid codeine a time or two just to get some rest. Since then, I sleep like a baby. Before the surgery I was such a light sleeper. I always woke up a few times a night to pee. Now I might wake up once.

It's one of the best unexpected side effects, for me.

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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