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I'm 4 months post op. I new this would be a major change in my body but did not expect hormones too change also . Changes so far that I'm dealing with - every morning I wake up with headache ( never had a headaches in my life before). Hormones are off the charts! Which is causing acne !! And bitchiness !! And cycle change also. ANYONE ELSE ????!!!!!! ( and also I know the anger and bitchiness is not coming from not eating. I can eat pretty much anything at this stAge. )

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The hormonal changes are natural due to the major changes in your body chemistry, they should normalize with time though. The Headache may be a result of becoming dehydrated overnight which seems to be quite common, make sure you are getting as much Fluid as possible, also I have read some people keep a drink by their bed so they can sip at night to help with this problem. Good Luck.

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At the beginning it was HORRIBLE but now I can not seem to regulate my body temp. I go from freezing to sweating! I have noticed that now that the weather is getting warmer I am overheating a lot more :(

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how funny I find the opposite has happened to me.. im colder now than I have been..normally im hot all the time.. but now.. nope.. Im freezing most of the time.. but no hormone changes or anything like that.. just body temp has changed.. im hoping summer wont be so bad this year if im cold all the time LOL

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how funny I find the opposite has happened to me.. im colder now than I have been..normally im hot all the time.. but now.. nope.. Im freezing most of the time.. but no hormone changes or anything like that.. just body temp has changed.. im hoping summer wont be so bad this year if im cold all the time LOL

You took the words out of my mouth, Nancy! I only had minor hormonal changes but then I'm also over half a century old! Ha ha! It's good to be cold for a change and I am also hoping summer will be better with less of me and much smaller clothes!!

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Hi Sarah,

I had all those changes the first month, I'm out almost the same time as you, but don't feel those anymore. The first month I was always irritable, emotional, was cold, and like I'm having pmS all the time. I agree the other posts, make sure you are hydrated coz that will give you headache...are you eating enough at dinner time? Maybe your sugar levels go down through the night that's why you get headaches.

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I am 2 weeks and 3 days post op and I am extremely irritable, especially in the mornings. I am also hypersensitive to what people say and im freezing all the time, which is not like me at all! hoping once my body gets used to this huge change, everything will kind of go back to normal.

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I am just over a month post-op, and I am breaking out horribly with acne. I've always had some, but it's just so much worse right now. I'm really hoping the hormones level out, but I was about to post a topic to see if anyone else is having really bad acne problems. Nothing like feeling like going through puberty again!

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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!

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