Shadows of Postpartum Circumstance

[Aunty Mamo 20]

I'm four days out from having my sleeve gastrectomy surgery and was telling my husband that the most similar I've ever felt to this before was decades ago when I was postpartum. I'm in about enough pain to take Tylenol a couple of times a day. Weird noises escape from both ends. I don't feel sick or injured, but I do feel fatigued and my cognition feels slowed. There's a hormone storm occurring that is tangible. And then there's this empty space in my body where something used to be. The void isn't upsetting, it's just- noticeable.

[summerseeker 1,922]

Congrats on your surgery and your perfect recovery. Your woolly symptoms are from the anaesthetic. It might take a few more days until you recover from the baby brain. Not everyone has the internal gurgle but I am told its quite loud and funny.

I had the hormone storm in a big way at about a week out too. It wasn't a side effect that anyone had explained to me beforehand. I had to ask my questions on here. Female bodies are wonderous, mysterious things. I didn't feel my smaller stomach at all but I did think that it had been moved into my chest as soon as I began eating.

[Shanna NYC 141]

Congrats on your surgery. I don't have kids so the postpartum part I cannot relate to in that way. But it definitely is a turn upside down. The fatigue and cognition part sounds familiar. Initially it's due to the lack of nutrition since we can only eat/drink so much in the beginning. It slowly starts to get better the more you can get in. That's why the Vitamins and Protein are important. It does get better.