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Food obsession ?

I am two days post opp. My surgery was July 31st and I don't feel like im really eating that much but im dreaming about food!!! Has this happened with anyone else? It's extremely weird to me to see myself eating all these random foods in my dreams but knowing I can't actually eat them! It's kinda funny, but very frustrating at the same time.

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  • SerendipityHappens
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    Mine were always nightmares that I was eating something I shouldn't too soon after surgery. The worst one had me sitting in my hospital bed eating fried chicken and then frantically trying to hide it

  • christieouchley
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    It took me a 2 months to really come to terms with not eating much anymore. I spent my first month post op sneaking crackers, drinking juice ect. Now I am so glad I dont have that need/urges anymore.

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Yes!!! I have gotten scared that I am messing myself up and wake up relieved that I didn't really eat this stuff.

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Yes same issue..I was really freaking out. Thank goodness it's only dreams ..

It took me a 2 months to really come to terms with not eating much anymore. I spent my first month post op sneaking crackers, drinking juice ect. Now I am so glad I dont have that need/urges anymore. I think it took my mind a good couple of months to catch up with the surgery and really be OK with it.

I've awakened in disappointment due to my happy dreams: flying, finding money, talking with my deceased father, saving people from a burning house, performing miracles.

I've awakened with a feeling of relief after dreaming about tornadoes, nuclear war, being crushed in a collapsing house, appearing in high school in my underwear, forgetting my locker combination, falling from tall trees.

My food dreams occasionally woke me up with cravings but were easily overcome after coffee engaged my full brain. :D

I am two days post opp. My surgery was July 31st and I don't feel like im really eating that much but im dreaming about food!!! Has this happened with anyone else? It's extremely weird to me to see myself eating all these random foods in my dreams but knowing I can't actually eat them! It's kinda funny' date=' but very frustrating at the same time.[/quote']

I used to dream about icy cold coke! It passed about a week and a half post op...

Mine were always nightmares that I was eating something I shouldn't too soon after surgery. The worst one had me sitting in my hospital bed eating fried chicken and then frantically trying to hide it in my pillow case so my doctor wouldn't find it all the while trying to think of a good cover story to explain why fried chicken was showing up on my flouroscopy.

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I've awakened in disappointment due to my happy dreams: flying' date=' finding money, talking with my deceased father, saving people from a burning house, performing miracles.

I've awakened with a feeling of relief after dreaming about tornadoes, nuclear war, being crushed in a collapsing house, appearing in high school in my underwear, forgetting my locker combination, falling from tall trees.

My food dreams occasionally woke me up with cravings but were easily overcome after coffee engaged my full brain. :D[/quote']

Does the coffee take the cravings away? I haven't tried it yet but my doctor " oked" it

Mine were always nightmares that I was eating something I shouldn't too soon after surgery. The worst one had me sitting in my hospital bed eating fried chicken and then frantically trying to hide it in my pillow case so my doctor wouldn't find it all the while trying to think of a good cover story to explain why fried chicken was showing up on my flouroscopy.

LOL!!! Too funny!

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Mine were always nightmares that I was eating something I shouldn't too soon after surgery. The worst one had me sitting in my hospital bed eating fried chicken and then frantically trying to hide it in my pillow case so my doctor wouldn't find it all the while trying to think of a good cover story to explain why fried chicken was showing up on my flouroscopy.

That's a funny story

I'm still pre-op, but I've had this dream about smoking. I'd have a cigarette in my dream and wake up so relieved that I hadn't actually smoked one.

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