I had my operation on June 26th. I would love to have others to talk with about my journey that were close to my same date. I'm in the pureed food stage right now. My first 2 weeks I lost a lot of weight really fast and now I'm in a stall, but I can tell I'm still loosing inches. I'm finding that I get full so fast and I'm not able to eat much and them I'm hungry again not far after I had eaten. I'm having a hard time getting all my liquids in and trying to get my Protein in as well.

I have fibromyalsia and since this surgery I've felt the best I have in a over a year. Tons of energy, my nerve pain is now only about 20%. With so much energy I'm finding that I'm struggling going to sleep at night.

My sense of smell ever since the surgery has been very heightened not sure why though.

Looking forward to journey!!!

Hi, I am 2 weeks out, I am also finding it hard to sleep. I'm tired though. Weird.

I'm in the pureed food stage right now. I'm experiencing an upset stomach. Anyone else having a hard time adjusting to moving from liquids to pureed foods? I feel sick to my stomach most of the day now.

Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear that. Do you think you might have overeaten? What have you been trying?

I was sleeved on June 26 and have lost 32 pounds since preop. I am having trouble sleeping as well and hardly ever feel hungry. I am able to tolerate most soft foods and liquids but am always very tired. It is helping tremendously to be able to read all of your posts.

I just think that we've had a major change to our body. 80% of our tummy's are gone. The "hormone" Grehlin also went with it - that's a lot for our body to handle. Sleeplessness could be the change in low carb, anaesthetic etc. For me I am am just trying to take it all in stride.

To Steph 0315: i'm definitely not overeating, I barely take 2-3 bites and I'm full. Liquid and fluids are the only things going down well. I'm thinking my stomach is bothering me cuz my stomach is getting used to the switch up. I'm getting ready to start walking for about 45 minutes to an hour. Start working some of this off, the only concern I have is if I will have enough energy to walk that long, since I'm in the alway's tired stage. Will be interesting.

They make a chewable form of unisom. I've taken it. It's help me sleep. @@dhlrn123 your post is my exact story. Sleeved 25th. Lost 35lbs. Weak & tired. Hoping that will go away.

Hi all! I was sleeved on June 23rd and I'm down 21 pounds. My journey hasn't been as easy as some. I had lapband to sleeve revision and had lots of scar tissue. My very experienced surgeon said it was the worst scar tissue he's seen from the band. So as a precaution for leaks I have been NPO for 3 weeks, giving my stomach time to heal and doing TPN feedings through a PICC line. I started Clear Liquids this past Sunday after my doctor called me with my UGI results. I have 2 weeks of clear liquids, 2 weeks of full liquids, and 2 weeks of blended diet until I'm eating solids. I'm ok with that though. I'm just glad my UGI was negative for leaks. I have a doctor's appointment in the morning and hopefully my PICC line will be removed as I'm getting in the 64 ounces of Fluid that my doctor required of me before he would DC the PICC line. I would love to join a private FB page.

Sleeved June 29 would love to be in a private June fb group. I seem to have the same issues.

Not getting my protein or fluid in, hungry every 2-3 hours, at a stall after losing 15 pounds.

I was sleeved on June 24th and dropped 12 pounds in 12 days, and then the scale just STOPPED! I've been freakin out for the last ten days.... i knew stalls would happen I just didn't think they would happen so quickly! I'm trying to convince myself that it will move again. Praying I didn't remove most of my stomach just to lose 12 pounds.

I hear that!

Had my surgery june 5, had some complications post op with concern of a "leak", had to have second procedure and nothing by mouth for 10 days, with TPN IV fluids to hydrate and feed me, repeated CT scans and multiple swallow scans. No leak detected after second surgery, but adheared to the standard of care post op per my surgeon. I am down 30 pounds now and am very pleased. Would I go through it all again? You betcha! I feel terrific and my co-workers are calling me "skinny" and I feel beautiful again...

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I just went on facebook and pressed "join group" no problems

I'm certainly not an expert, but I thought that private groups cannot be searched for. I think those may be closed groups , which are different, and anyone can see the members of those.

Hi guys, I am a june sleever as well! I was sleeved on june 24th, up until now everything has gone relatively smooth for me thank god! I'm down 22lb since surgery day (262 and now 240) but i'm also in a 2 week stall now, hopeing it passes soon! Well that said since all of us are interested in a secret group on fb i created 1 today but i dont know how to go about posting the link on here so i guess you guys can leave me your fb names on here and i will add you!

My VSG was June 2, and I just hit my first stall. I'm also dealing with a lot of hunger and never feeling full. UGH. That will be another post though. This certainly hasn't been the easiest thing to do. In fact, this is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

UPDATE TO 2-WEEK STALL:

I met today with one of the nutritionists at Christiana PMRI, and she said a stall this soon is totally normal. She reviewed my FitnessPal food diary, and said I was doing great at 600 - 800 calories and over 60 grams of Protein a day. She said one month post-op, I'm still recuperating and detoxing the anesthesia (I'm also allergic to Dilaudid, and they insisted on giving it to me anyway). Because I'm still sleeping a lot (I go to bed at about 8-8:30 and sleep straight thru until morning, whereas my normal bed time pre-op was about 10:30) and am not moving with as much energy as I did pre-op, my body isn't burning what it will be in a couple of weeks.

In addition, the stall seems to have passed, as of today. I got on the scale there and have lost 4 lbs. in the last 3 days.

So, yay!

I hope it's passing for everyone else, too!