I am all about educating myself on as much as I can... Deciding to have the VSG was no different. I did tons of research. I read medical journals and studies as well as personal experiences posted by others who were already post op. I had my VSG done on 9/22/14. I know I'm only about 2.5 weeks post op.. But I wasn't prepared for the fatigue that comes with the process. I can hardly eat and the weight I've lost isn't exciting because it just feels like medically induced starvation. I pray to God that I get done balance soon. I don't feel healthy..pre-op I was a healthy obese person. I want so badly to just have balance again. I hope that 6 months from now I too can say this was the best decision that I ever made. My advice to pre-op patients is to understand that the first month post op is hard. The surgery is easy in comparison to the extreme fatigue many patients go through post-op.

I had SO MUCH ENERGY right after surgery. I was go go go until about 8PM and then I would crash. Next day GO GO GO... until around day 5 and then I didn't get out of bed. I think the adrenaline finally wore off any my body said............wait what? And then it was a few weeks until I was back to normal. Really even now I still get tired pretty easily and when I am DONE for the day I am DONE. I never slept better than I have since surgery!

Just remember, EVERYONE's body is different. They recover at different rates and under different circumstances....

Daily intake of calories and Fluid will affect how you feel the next day. And NO you aren't starving, remember why you did this. To force your body to burn off all that FAT! Mammals that hibernate like bears do it every year of their lives!

I'm 2 weeks post op and have no fatigue. I hope it stays this way. Went back to work 7 days post op.

I am one week out, and I

Not been able to get my protein in yet. I have tried everything just makes me gag. This has been a slow recovery.

Two weeks out today and I am extremely tired. Last week I was like the energizer bunny, kept going and going. This week I just want to sleep all day long. Whenever I eat, I am immediately ready to pass out. And that's only about 2-3 tablespoons of pureed food. Other than this tiredness, my recovery has been great!

I guess that's why they call it "recovery." Something big just happened. And it's going to keep happening for a while (some say). The changes we're going through post-op are significant -- physical (healing), nutritional, hydration, behavioral, social, sleeping (for me), and tons of other ways.

Pre-op, we knew how to do the basic things we're now learning from scratch again.

But all the reading I've done online tells me we go through many, many phases.

I've come to appreciate that there is no finish line. We just keep opening new gates and going across new valleys and over new mountains.

I don't think we're ever going back to our old haunts. And that's a little freaky. Or exciting. Or both.

I am 2 months out and still having a lot of fatigue and weakness. I get in 500 calories a day and most days all of my Protein and still feel like crap. I also have a lot of heartburn, stomach pain and nausea. I go back to my surgeon in a couple weeks to see what he has to say and if he can recommend anything.