I can’t tell whether I am hungry or having gas pain. Am I supposed to be hungry? With clear liquids is there a schedule to follow or just continuous fluids, clear liquids throughout the day?

Staci

SW 219.5

CW 207.2

Surgery Date 5/2/18

Gastric Sleeve

7 minutes ago, hopeful333 said:

I can’t tell whether I am hungry or having gas pain. Am I supposed to be hungry? With Clear Liquids is there a schedule to follow or just continuous fluids, clear liquids throughout the day?

Staci

SW 219.5

CW 207.2

Surgery Date 5/2/18

Gastric Sleeve

I'm currently 2 days post op. Although I enjoyed the taste in my mouth of a tiny bite of the soup they provided, I'm not feeling any hunger yet, but did have quite a bit of gas and incision pains. Today my swollen forearm from the IV dislodging overnight and pushing a lot of fluid directly into my arm has overtaken the other pains, so I'm assuming the gas is getting better. ?

I find I am at risk of vomiting if i go from laying down straight to sitting up and swallowing tablets (even with only a tiny swallow of water) so I make sure I'm either standing or sitting fully upright for at least 10 mins for any new gas to bubble out before swallowing any tablets and they're staying down. I was on nonstop IV until the removed it early this morning though, so might have been more thirsty without that.

Check with your hospital team if you are meant to be on a drinking schedule. Here they were just encouraging the occasional sip while taking medicines on first day post op. Today they want to monitor hour much fluid I manage to take in.

Best of luck, and welcome to the losers bench

I can’t tell whether I am hungry or having gas pain. Am I supposed to be hungry? With Clear Liquids is there a schedule to follow or just continuous fluids, clear liquids throughout the day?
Staci
SW 219.5
CW 207.2
Surgery Date 5/2/18
Gastric Sleeve

Keep track in your head roughly as often the nurses come in at end of day and ask which can be difficult to remember

Hi May sleevers. Just wanted to say good luck to everyone being sleeved in the 2nd week of May and if you have a difficult experience like me it all honestly feels so much better by day 4. Now I'm feeling excited about it all again. Initially i had an awful fear descend on me post op at the enormity of what I'd done and did feel teary depressed and so worried. If any of you have that emotional experience it will get better very fast. Even through those thoughts i was definitely telling myself that not doing surgery would lead to diabetes and worse. So hang in there through those first few days.