Today is day 4 for me, and right now - all I've thought is, "what did I do to myself"? When does the change occur? When does the stomach pain with swallowing stop? When will I stop being dizzy? When will I get some energy back? Right now, all I want to do is sleep.

16 minutes ago, didit said:

Today is day 4 for me, and right now - all I've thought is, "what did I do to myself"? When does the change occur? When does the stomach pain with swallowing stop? When will I stop being dizzy? When will I get some energy back? Right now, all I want to do is sleep.

Very low cals = little energy = sleep a lot. Makes sense. Your body expends calories just to function.

Spend your time awake trying to slowly attain your nutritional goals. The better you do, the longer you can stay awake, the better you can attain said nutritional goals. Think of it as a cycle.

It'll be like this for a while.

Edited March 10, 20179 yr by PatientEleventyBillion

Today is day 4 for me, and right now - all I've thought is, "what did I do to myself"? When does the change occur? When does the stomach pain with swallowing stop? When will I stop being dizzy? When will I get some energy back? Right now, all I want to do is sleep.

Day 2 for me and I feel exactly the same as you. I know eventually it'll get better but I'm very uncomfortable right now

the pain from swallowing makes it a challenge to get in the fluids. I've been doing a fair job, but this morning my pee is a little on the dark side. I just hope that this pain (gas pain/air pain - whatever it is) isn't part of the new way of life. I found a tip on here to exhale through your nose before swallowing - and I try to do that, but I still get pain. It totally makes sense that it's from swallowing because it's immediate - can almost follow the feel of liquid swallowed down to the tummy and up comes the painful bubble.

18 minutes ago, didit said:

the pain from swallowing makes it a challenge to get in the fluids. I've been doing a fair job, but this morning my pee is a little on the dark side. I just hope that this pain (gas pain/air pain - whatever it is) isn't part of the new way of life. I found a tip on here to exhale through your nose before swallowing - and I try to do that, but I still get pain. It totally makes sense that it's from swallowing because it's immediate - can almost follow the feel of liquid swallowed down to the tummy and up comes the painful bubble.

Popsicles and ice chips are helpful in the beginning. That way you're getting some water and the cooling from it kind of helps things going down the pipe.

Your energy is going to be low for the first two weeks. You're barely taking anything in and you're body has just undergone a major change. Each individual is going to recovery differently, but you should start to see a change soon enough in how you're feeling. The first week really sucked for me, but the second week I started to see a difference and from there it got better and better.