When did you start to feel hunger post op? Did the hunger feel different?

I was banded 1/19, and over the past 2 days I've started to feel more sensations that feel something like what I used to consider to be hunger.

Does hunger feel different?

I have yet to feel anything that feels like what I used to call hungry, but I do feel something else.

I was banded 1/19 also and I've been so hungry I could eat a horse! Thursday was the worst - today hasn't been too bad so far. I agree, though, that I am more sensitive to it. It's something that I didn't truly feel for a long time because I never stopped eating long enough to get very hungry. On the rare occasions when I did feel it, I ate everything in sight.

Right now your insides are swollen from surgery so some people won't feel hunger for awhile. It will slowly come back. I think it stills feels the same as before surgery, you will just be making better food choices, and not eating as much. Hope this helps.:confused:

The day after surgery I was hungry and the doctor placed 3cc in my band at the time of surgery.

I was banded on 1/19 and I was not what I called Hungry before surgery for about 48 hours but by day four or five I was getting some of that old school hunger but I know that most of it is in my head. I am working through it though and I have lost 23 pounds as of this morning. Just drink your shake and stop gang. Let the day pass and don't think about food. It is a ticket to a new life free from the bonds of eating. Hope this helps.

Honestly I came to in recovery HUNGRY and THIRSTY. I know some will say "no one is hungry post op" but they are wrong. I recovered fast, had no issues (the 2nd time!) was alert, felt great, and if I hadn't seen my band when they made me do a barium swallow before I left the hospital I wouldn't have thought I had it. I drank THIRTY TWO ounces of Water before I left the hospital...

and stuck to my post op diet, but it was a misery for me because I was hungry through most of that time.

No, it wasn't emotional hunger. It wasn't phantom hunger. It was gnaw on my cat's leg hunger LOL (ok he was really safe...too furry)

Apparently some lucky souls after abdominal surgery aren't famished. I was not so lucky. I sailed through the surgery well and am grateful for that, but the downside of having it so very easy, I guess, was an intact appetite.

And hungry still feels to me like it always did. As I SLOOOWLY get more restriction I feel it less often....but it's the same old sensation it ever was, for me anyway.

I wasn't hungry until I started eating mushie foods a month after surgery.

It is amazing how different this is for each of us.

For me I think I'm in between. At first I felt no hunger at all. Now, I'm partially healed and I guess I feel hunger in the best way my stomach can express it to me right now. In time this will probably return to its old self. But for now, its nice that 'hunger' doesn't feel as severe as it was preop.

Tomorrow I graduate to mushies... well, I'm allowed a scrammbled egg, and I've been lusting after that egg for a week plus now.

I know, purely mental, but I can't help how I feel.

Thanks for all your replies.