Is it just me but honestly ever since the day after surgery 9 days ago, I truly am hungry a lot. I'm not talking about the head hunger everyone mentions, but true hunger in my belly with belly growling. I'm getting very disappointed as one of the main reasons I chose the sleeve over the band was because they said I wouldn't feel hunger. Am I the only one feeling this?

I'm not on food yet, just liquids, so I'm hoping once I start purées it will go away. Thanks.

I'm only 5 days out and feel like I can never get full. I just tried a piece of cheese and some pizza and had no problem it scares me that I can do that already I'm still in the soft liquid diet. I'm not gonna try and eat anything anymore but it bothers me that I have no problems getting anything down.

I'm only 5 days out and feel like I can never get full. I just tried a piece of cheese and some pizza and had no problem it scares me that I can do that already I'm still in the soft liquid diet. I'm not gonna try and eat anything anymore but it bothers me that I have no problems getting anything down.

If I were you I would be very careful about going off your diet. Although you are fine and I am glad you are, your stomach is healing. I am not trying to scare you just letting you know there have been posts made by people, who did not follow their physicians perscibed diet plan and they caused themselves a leak. A leak can be life threatning and it is dangerous to push your luck. All things come in time, you will be able to enjoy all the things you love, just give it time. I wish you luck on your journey.

That's the last thing I want to happen. I will stay on my diet. I'll talk to my nut about it too. Thanks!

Kari I am so glad you posted this. I am 6 days out from surgery and have horrible hunger pains. My stomach will start to hurt like it's empty and then after a few minutes my stomach will growl and it will feel fine again. It is definitely not head hunger as I really have no desire to eat I just feel these horrible physical sensations of hunger. I have seen on other posts people say its rebound acid production and to talk to my dr about increasing my PPI and adding Gaviscon. I'm going to ask my dr about it this week. I know it's very frustrating especially this early out. I am just working on dealing with the hand I'm dealt and staying with my nutrition plan. I'm hopeful once I get to mushies like cottage cheese in conjunction with the PPI that it will be better. Good Luck!!!!

I'll be 7 weeks out on Monday. My hunger started after a week and a half and it hasn't gone away since. I ate gas x strips for days because everyone told me it was gas. I've been taking a heartburn medication pill since week 3 and it hasn't helped. I've only gotten an actual "full" feeling one time. All protein makes me natious except for cheese. Your hunger may be real hunger but I do agree with the others that say not to judge it too soon. And even if it is real hunger it won't take much to make the hunger subside. The reason I never actually get full or satisfied is because after a couple bites mostly everything gets stuck unless its yogurt or of course cheese. I guess the reason I'm telling you all this is because there are people such as myself that always have hunger and have to eat very often to keep it at bay but you will still lose weight regardless. I average 3-4 pounds a week and I eat more calories than I'm supposed to which might not be a good thing but I'm not gonna starve myself because that seems fairly pointless. I do wish you luck and I'm crossing my fingers for you that it is just gas or something that subsides soon because being hungry all the time is stressful