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Hi there fellow sleevers.... when you compare what your hunger signals feel like before and now after sleeve, are they different?

Here's my reason for asking. ...I'm 5 months post op and have been chasing horrible pains in my throat that feel like a lumpy golfball. Extensive testing all negative, multiple hiatal hernia repair surgeries.... it's gotten drastic and really over the top. I am just now thinking I've got a reason. Maybe my hunger pains are now in my throat rather than mid abdomen. Interestingly enough, the pain that started slow and then unbearable ---> resolves after eating some bites of tuna and a cracker.

Did your hunger pang location shift? I'm hoping my mystery has now been resolved. I can't begin to explain the months of medical testing and surgery..... Crossing fingers.

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My hunger pangs feel like a stabbing sensation in my sleeve. Nothing unbearable, just a bit uncomfortable. That's the only real way I know I'm hungry. I still get head hunger on occasion, but that is a totally different feeling and I can easily tell it from real hunger.

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Very interesting. If it resolves after eating it might be a new hunger signal. I have been trying to figure mine out. Do the pains come and go? Are they unbearable?

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My hunger pains aren't unbearable or anything, but yeah, they often start around my throat. It feels more like it's around my trachea if I had to pinpoint a spot, but it's definitely not anywhere near my stomach when it starts.

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I found hunger pains were not actual pains but that I was dehydrated and once I drank more Water it was fine. I still take antacids as the acid reflux gets to me. Could just be acid reflux in your throat. I was sleeved back in Nov, 2014.

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I found hunger pains were not actual pains but that I was dehydrated and once I drank more Water it was fine. I still take antacids as the acid reflux gets to me. Could just be acid reflux in your throat. I was sleeved back in Nov, 2014.

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