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Weight Gain After Surgery

Hi All, I had my surgery on Tuesday, October 18th and feel pretty good. The soreness is subsiding and I'm able to walk outside with no problem. My question is... I lost 15 lbs. during the liquid diet before the surgery, they weighed me the day of surgery. However, since I've been home from the hospital (2 days) my weight has gone up by about 20 lbs. I'm still on a liquid diet and have stuck to it completely. I believe that a lot of it is Water weight, but does this seem strange to anyone else?

I'm kind of freaking out a bit. What if I had the surgery and then I don't lose the weight. That's got to be impossible, right?

Did that happen to anyone else?

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No worries. I had a nurse who weighed me right before surgery. After surgery she had me get out of bed and had me walk to the scale. It was up nineteen pounds.

I asked my surgeon what was going on and he laughed and said to go home and pee it out.

It is Water that they pump into the body to do the laparoscopic surgery. A galleon of water weighs seven pounds. They used about three gallons for you. It will go away in a few days.

IV fluids, not worries. Wait to day 4 or 5 to weigh yourself again.

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Hi All, I had my surgery on Tuesday, October 18th and feel pretty good. The soreness is subsiding and I'm able to walk outside with no problem. My question is... I lost 15 lbs. during the liquid diet before the surgery, they weighed me the day of surgery. However, since I've been home from the hospital (2 days) my weight has gone up by about 20 lbs. I'm still on a liquid diet and have stuck to it completely. I believe that a lot of it is Water weight, but does this seem strange to anyone else?

I'm kind of freaking out a bit. What if I had the surgery and then I don't lose the weight. That's got to be impossible, right?

Did that happen to anyone else?

Surgery same day as you - gained 9lbs in hospital. Heading down now but I'm sure it would be faster if I could get enough fluids into me.

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