This is probably a strange question but I am trying to imagine how it will physically feel with 85% of my stomach gone. Setting aside the pain the first week post op, can you tell that it had been removed? I don't know, I think I may be over thinking this and the anticipation is getting the best of me.

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I was wondering the same thing.

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I had my VSG in June, and the only way I can tell that my stomach is mostly gone is when I eat, since my capacity is so reduced. I never had any sense of something being gone or missing from my abdomen, and I had virtually no pain other than the incisions themselves.

You feel exactly the same as you did preop. Just able to eat less ????

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I ditto what the other's have said.....I feel completely normal. The only time anything is any different is when I eat....and then it's only because I fill up so quickly. It's not like I feel like I'd like to eat more but can't....it's wonderful! I'm satisfied! I guess it also feels a little different when I drink and sometimes my stomach gets really gurgley.....but that doesn't usually last long and it's not unpleasant just different.

You can't feel a difference. The only reason you will really notice that you no longer have most of your stomach is because the first week or two you feel kind of blah, and then after that for a few months you burp a lot, which is a lovely reminder that you put too much into your small stomach. Past that though, it's not like cutting off an arm- your stomach and organs don't have the same type of sensory tissue as other parts of your body, so when you cut one of them out, you only feel the pain of the entry wounds for the surgical instruments rather than the actual wound to your stomach.

After the trauma of having ~85% of my stomach removed subside, I felt no difference; only that I eat less.

Overeating with a fully intact stomach or an 85% removed stomach is still uncomfortable; it shouldn't be done with either.

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