Hi everyone! I'm 10 days post op and feeling great! Eating is beginning to feel a lot easier and my battle scars as I call them seem to be healing well! My ONLY problem is that I get tired very easily. It can be in a every day activity like showering, changing, or brushing hair as to even going to the grocery store! When will this tiredness and fatigue go away? help please

I'm 14 days out and still tire easily too, but I found that my energy levels got a little higher when I added more protein. I also sneak in a regular sugar Popsicle in once in a while to perk me up since I am allergic to fake sugar. Hopefully we will get our energy back soon!

Congrats on your surgery! Sorry to hear you're feeling kinda exhausted, but it is totally normal. Some people bounce back quickly; others (like me) take 3 months before they feel like their old selves. Once your food intake increases, you should notice a big boost in your energy. Meanwhile, just try to be patient and not push yourself too hard. I know--easier said than done!

I think we all get kind of caught up in all the excitement of our new weight loss adventures and tend to "forget" that our bodies DID just go through major surgery and they are giving us signals loud and clear to rest and relax while all that healing goes on in there.

Take care and keep on healing well!

Perfectly normal !! I am 7 weeks out and it's much better but still tired. I haven't started exercising and told my surgeon and he was fine with it, since I told him I will exercise but I am SO TIRED!! It's all I can do to go to work and come home (one hour commute each way), he said " one day, it will just be back". Like I said, much better now. I was like you, didn't even want to shower because of the energy needed. I would think about it and just want to go back to sleep. LOL

I keep having to remind myself this as well. I am only 5 days post op and find myself questioning why I feel like crap half the time. Duh! I just had major surgery. I've been laying low and resting as much as possible. That's hard for me to do but in order to heal well we all need to. I'm finding it very hard to get in all my fluids and protein shake. They wanted me to get in 64 oz of water a day but most I could get in was about 40. I also have a lot of soreness underneath my larger incision where the old stomach was pulled from and have a hard time moving around as a result. I'm hoping when I am off this 1 week liquid diet I will start to have more energy.

You guys really make me feel a lot better! I just feel so anxious to go out and do exercise or do something! I just graduated nursing school so I'm just at home studying for boards and doing a lot of nothing! Sad but true lol! Hopefully this energy will come soon because I really reeeeally need it!!

I got fits of fatigue for about 3 months. After that, my energy level normalized. It is my understanding that this is pretty common as the healing process runs its course. Remember, although it looks mild on the outside and we can feel OK some days, major work was done on the inside and the body is using a lot of energy to heal. Complete healing takes almost one year.