This is a bit weird but here goes. I'm having trouble believing my stomach is now a sleeve. I mean logically I know i've had this operation. I went to the hospital, there are scars etc. But something in my head can't process the idea that a big chunk of my stomach is gone. I can drink a lot of fluids and I'm often hungry, so maybe this has to do with it. I'm not sure.

Anyone felt the same before? Any ideas?

I wonder if Dr Needleman will give me any pictures of my innards? Do you suppose if I act very sweetly and ask politely he would? I have pictures of the different stages of my 2 EGD, I'm going to ask. Please Please? I don't care if the whole ? thinks I'm a little off-beat, I think they would be neat to have!?

3 hours ago, Frustr8 said:

I wonder if Dr Needleman will give me any pictures of my innards? Do you suppose if I act very sweetly and ask politely he would? I have pictures of the different stages of my 2 EGD, I'm going to ask. Please Please? I don't care if the whole ? thinks I'm a little off-beat, I think they would be neat to have!?

That's ok, hon. We all think you're a little off-beat, but we love ya anyway! Or maybe because of it?

Edited June 17, 20188 yr by Orchids&Dragons

I had very very little pain post op. Someone asked me if I felt like there was a 'void' where they took out the stomach. that made me laugh actually. kind of makes sense that I would, but nope. anyways. I KNOW it's a smaller 'eating' stomach because a few bites of something and i'm full. instead of a normal sized dinner plate, I have a teacup saucer that I eat off of. and cant always finish what I put on it.

On 6/17/2018 at 10:53 AM, foxcblue said:

Me too! I have pictures of my sliver of my stapled tummy and of my hernia before and after. Once I figured out which way was up on the pics?

LOL! I thought I was the only one getting souvenir pictures! Glad to know I am not the only one with an odd surgeon.

Omg ? I thought I was the only one ; I was sleeved on 5/31 and I’m about 80-90% healed and I cannot believe I’m sleeved. I’ve moved on to solid foods and then the fact that I’m sleeved comes in ; solid foods fills me up so quickly two bite of chicken , tuna , anything more I’m dumping and throwing it up. I wasn’t informed that dumping was part of the sleeve am I doing something wrong !

On 6/8/2018 at 3:30 PM, StrawberryLaray said:

This is exactly how I feel. Sometimes I wish my abdomen could be see through for a moment so I could just see what's up in there.

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I feel this way too, it has been difficult for me to know when its hunger or just "wanting". My brain is still the big girl I was when surgery took place, wanting to eat all the things that taste good, just because they taste good and I didn't feel "full", so why not? But I learned my lesson, the quick eating, the over eating, only took me two times to see how much it SUCKS! Running to the bathroom to throw up has happened to me twice, all because I ate too much too fast and my stomach could not handle it. Of course something that I was told would/could happen. Though I have fixed that, I fee like, sometimes I see things that I still just want to eat, does that ever go away? Will I always just have to tell myself "no, you dont need it"?