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Ok I was sleeved on may 29th and went back to work part-time on the 3rd. Most of my pain has gone away I didn't even take any pain meds today. But I'm still feel so weak I just walked to the store 3 blocks from my house and I'm dripping sweat. An I had to stop at DD to sit and get a small coffee before I walk back home. Is this normal or I'm I just over doing it?

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I was sleeved on the 23rd and just now have some energy back and heading to work Monday. Take it easy, don't over do it ...

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I was two weeks out before I could take a shower and do my makeup without resting. Good thing I have a desk job or I would never have been able to go back to work after one week.

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I went to the store to pick up a few things, then to the ATM, and I was also dripping w sweat. I'm drinking a lot of fluids too. I felt faint - it was awful.

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Thanks, I guess I need to slow down but I hear people walking their dogs and I'm like we're are they getting all this energy from.

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Thanks' date=' I guess I need to slow down but I hear people walking their dogs and I'm like we're are they getting all this energy from.[/quote']

You are definitely over doing it. Listen to your body. I didn't find all the "extra energy" everyone talks about until about a month and a half to two months out and realistically, it isn't extra energy, it is less weight keeping me down.

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I was two weeks out before I could take a shower and do my makeup without resting. Good thing I have a desk job or I would never have been able to go back to work after one week.

Me too!!! I was 2 weeks Thursday and can finally shower and do makeup with resting for a while. I go back to work Monday and hope I do ok

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Thanks' date=' I guess I need to slow down but I hear people walking their dogs and I'm like we're are they getting all this energy from.[/quote']

Everyone is different...some have more energy than others. Dont let those with success put you down.

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Interesting to read everyone's thoughts - I was sleeved yesterday and all I can manage is sleep and forcing sips of Water when I'm awake. Hope to find some energy within a few days of this! Although, the forced laziness IS awesome. I'm planning to return to work on the 17th.

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I felt weak too the past couple days. I started drinking Vitamin Water zero and feel stronger today. I may have just been dehydrated. I hope you feel better soon!

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Please take it easy, keep sipping & resting!

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Definitely sounds like you're dehydrated. And next time, have Water instead of coffee. Caffeine will dehydrate you faster.

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Yep SLOW down!! My mom made the observation the other day that one problem with laprascopic surgery is that we forget we have had MAJOR SURGERY!! Also any other major surgery they would be encouraging us to eat good healthy foods for our body to heal, instead we have restricted our calories big time. It takes time.

I went back to work after 2 weeks (but I only work 1 full day a week) had to take a nap at lunch, and it was 5 weeks before I returned to all my activities. But I also had complications during surgery, and I'm 53. I also felt like I should be more based on those posts you mentioned.

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Interesting to read everyone's thoughts - I was sleeved yesterday and all I can manage is sleep and forcing sips of Water when I'm awake. Hope to find some energy within a few days of this! Although' date=' the forced laziness IS awesome. I'm planning to return to work on the 17th.[/quote']

This was exactly how I felt the first couple of days postop.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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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      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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