WTH? How can this be? Day of surgery I was 223.2. This morning I’m 232! I’ve had nothing to eat or drink except sips of water & meds. I don’t get it! Please tell me there’s some crazy reason for this that I wasn’t told about and that it’ll drop quickly!!!! I honestly couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw those numbers. Been walking quite a bit too! ?

NEVER weigh yourself the first week after surgery. You have water weight from the IV's they gave you from your surgery. It'll take a few days for that to go away. Stay away from the scale for another five days AT LEAST.

This is very common because of all the IV fluids you get in the hospital. I came home from surgery 5 pounds heavier than when I left, but those 5 pounds came off within two days.

Echoing what everyone else has said. It is very common. Same thing happened to me when I weighed myself the day after surgery just to see.

Fast forward another day and several trips to the bathroom where I peed out the four IV bags of fluids they pumped into me in the course of 24 hours and all of that weight was gone.

Weigh yourself when you're 1 week post-op and see how things are proceeding.

Yes, the same thing happened to me. I had never been above 200 lbs in my life, but I was post-surgery.

The others are right... you are full of the air they pump in your stomach, the IV fluids AND there is swelling.

Just wait a few days and it will go away. Don't worry.

I flipped out too!

Totally normal. I “gained” 10 pounds post op, mostly from fluids and swelling. It was all gone within 10 days.