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I was sleeved on April 3 and everything has been fine up until now. Now I don't know if it's because I have been off my Zoloft or maybe just the emotional journey of the surgery but I am feeling very down and defeated at the moment. I drinking more than 1 oz And still not feeling full/satisfied which scares me!!! Anybody on the same track? :/ I have lost 20lbs which should make me feel like I'm on cloud 9 but the feeling is just not there!

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Are you still on liquids? You won't feel restriction from your sleeve until you are on solids or at least purees. hang in there...the first few weeks are tough, but totally worth it. Congratulations on 20 lbs gone forever!

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Why are you off your zoloft? You need to take it.

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A lot of people have the "WTF's" a week or so after surgery. Give it some time, okay? You won't feel restriction until you get to more solid foods. Try to relax and do the things that your Dr. and nutritionist want you do. It's going to be good, I swear :)

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Hell my WTF's lasted through week 4. I felt no restriction on liquids at all, pissed me off, but realized meh, it's liquids so there won't be any restriction. You'll feel restriction from drinking too fast as the liquid tries to funnel down your swollen stomach, but that'll go away soon.

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A lot of people have the "WTF's" a week or so after surgery. Give it some time' date=' okay? You won't feel restriction until you get to more solid foods. Try to relax and do the things that your Dr. and nutritionist want you do. It's going to be good, I swear :)[/quote']

Thank you. I definitely feel like this is my wtf week! All the replies are making me a lot better knowing its not just me going through this alone.

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Why are you off your zoloft? You need to take it.

I started taking it today. I was afraid to take it as a solid but got the go ahead from the doc

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Are you still on liquids? You won't feel restriction from your sleeve until you are on solids or at least purees. hang in there...the first few weeks are tough' date=' but totally worth it. Congratulations on 20 lbs gone forever![/quote']

20lbs gone forever...I like that lol thanks. Yes I am still on my liquids and its tough. This is a huge mental battle...much bigger than I expected but I am hanging on! It's nice to see people have gone through this and overcame it

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Same happened to me. I will be a month out in 2 days. But the first 2 weeks I was kinda depressed. I cried a lot and then got kinda angry. We soon later found out it was from withdrawals . So I had to get back on my meds immediately . You will bounce back. Congrats!

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Zoloft is NOT an option...especially while you're going through all of this! I'm glad you're back on. This is emotional enough without missing doses. I'm only 11-12 days out (it's the middle of the night), and it's still hard, but I feel MUCH better than I did just a few days ago. One day at a time....

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I think some people just get a bit depressed after surgery. I read it can have something to do with the anesthesia. I didn't have any complications and I've lost 40 pounds but I was like, "eh, so what. I don't care." Finally around week 5 that feeling started to lift and I feel better mentally. So hang in there!! Just keep moving forward.

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I def feel very blah sometimes. I'm 3 weeks out today and already starting to feel like myself more and more. Hang in there toots! It def gets better. And taking your meds will help.

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I had a week or two of WTF. I was angry at everything I got off the pain meds. After a period I felt better Emotionally. I am 6 weeks out. I feel great and calmer than before the surgery. Also I would tell anyone take your antidepressants. If my family member wanted to get this surgery

I will tell them up front to take your meds afterwards that the surgeon agrees to.

Feel better soon.

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      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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      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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        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.

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

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